Friday, April 8, 2011

The Reason I Love Peru!


The beautiful  Plaza de Armas in the center of Cusco,Peru


The  children are friendly, and happy...



This little girl knits these little finger puppets, and then sells them in the Plaza.

   It is very common to see siblings caring for family members....sometimes both are very young.    
The beggars are very heart-wrenching....usually they are blind,
I love the mothers....they are very loving...isn't this mother sweet?
...and her baby boy was beautiful.

 
This lady was selling paintings....I thought that she was very pretty...and very sweet.


 
This little girl was my favorite....she was young...maybe not even 2.  I asked her mother if I could take her picture.  When I knelt down with the camera, she struck this adorable pose.  When I tried to give her a sol ...she pointed to her mother.

This is her mother.

Notice the cobble stone street, and the wall behind the beggar is original Inka construction...stones with no mortar.


I liked these three raggedy little brothers...their father was taking their picture...warm, friendly people.



Lady weaving and selling...
This is a very young baby, on his mother's back.  They are amazingly alert, and seem interested in everything around them...I just love to see them looking around. 

This lady was sitting on a street corner, but I thought she had a certain dignity.
No wonder I hear "Gringo"....I didn't realize how obvious I am.


Two slides from JA's 27 slide presentation...

Among all the magnificent Archeological Landmarks that atract 1.5 Million international visitors annually, what is missing?....




 Does not the Church have a Message for all those Visitors?... The Question Should not be IF a Visitor's Center is needed, but Where it should be placed?

Preferably adjacent to a beautifull new Temple