the quality of the daily light(sky)has shifted…the blue is a more intense color and the season has changed…maybe, just maybe the rains are almost over. Some say…’oh, another two weeks’ and some say october 15th….and then some…’who the hell knows anymore?’
whatever the case it was a perfect Fall Sunday…town fulla shiny SUV’s, the Mercado jammed and a group of Harley aficionados early on at the Merced ‘mall’, end of 5th avenida. 11am? 3 28 passenger buses pull up in front of La Merced and disgorge their passengers…all pale white gringos…where did they come from? I coulda asked but I was taking a break on a bench, after lugging the days groceries.
What is it with the church down the hill from me? Six Flags over Jesus with an electric guitar ensemble? whatever, they had an overflow crowd today…the foot ball stadium(Franklin V says it was the old site of a gunpowder factory)rocking(musically)and the gentle sound of tennis balls next door…’twock, twock’…
Bull Durham says he saw rotating colored lights in the sky about Antigua a few days ago…don’t think it was the Bat Signal, Santiago…ah, this town…it was an ‘ice cream in the park’ kinda day…the vendors(arts/crafts)had their stalls under tents on two sides of the Plaza, kids, dogs and strollers everywhere, just a sweet Antigua Sunday under blue skies. Funny how some weekends we’ve got the Capitalinas with their tight jeans and little white dogs on leashes and then the next weekend it’s babies in strollers…Epicure capturing the rico crowd from the City, guards standing just so inside the entrance.
looks like a return in the fear nuture to the Jet Set, Esquintla’s rock n roll/wild weekends/party central…’wonder if the Pontiac is still available?
Our Man in Antigua 
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