Love the Old City of San Juan Puerto Rico!
It reminds me of an old walled European city.
But with larger American cars,
that mess up photos! Laughing…..
Old San Juan was founded in 1506 by Spain and some of the old buildings, need to be rennovated, which would be so much fun to do!
Others are meticulously well maintained.
When I come home everything looks beige by comparison.
Don’t you love such creative use of color?
Hope the vibrant architecture of beautiful Old San Juan cheers your day!
I love the colorful architecture!
So do I my friend, full of the vibrant joy of life~
I like the number on the house – it reminds me of the beautiful Azulejos in Portugal.
Oh then you have to come to my house…..we have our house name on one side and number on the other in Mexican handmade tiles. I love them too!!
It sounds so nice! 🙂
It’s home so it is!!
Cindy — Just Wow! Incredible photographs…I feel like I’ve had a mini-vacation…without the hassle of airports! I had never seen a photograph of San Juan, and now I see what I have missed! But it was worth it to see that charming city through your eyes. Thank you!!
Ron — http://randalane.wordpress.com
awwwww! Such a lovely comment! Made my day~
Wow, what a lovely photogenic place!! I love the colours, the architecture, the place could almost pass off as a painting! Thank you for sharing!
I just love the daring use of COLOR!! It works in every combination and I am so happy you enjoyed~
You did a great job of highlighting the vibrant colors, Cindy. It looks like a happy place.
It is and that is why we keep coming back to it! Our 4th time here~
The colors are just so tropical. It certainly brings a splash of color to a grey, dreary, February morning. Thank you for sharing.
So glad it brightened your day! I hoped it might~
Nice photos Cindy.
Gracias!
Great shots. Such a beautiful city. The colors are so vibrant and alive! Thank you for the post!
Just happy you enjoyed it! Cheers to you~
I love Old San Juan, beautiful photograph nice job Cindy.
Muchas gracias mi amiga!
De nada Cindy!
What a treat. They sure have prettied it up since I was there. It really is a romance waiting for everyone to discover it!
Yes. You would know the answer to this. Why are we so afraid of color in North America?
Definitely cheering me up on this cold winter morning. I loved Old San Juan when I was there a few years ago…the colors, the uniqueness of each facade, the old European town feel…enjoy.
You explained it perfectly!
More architecture, color and sunshine to charm our sights.
Yay!! So glad it worked!
It cheered me beyond belief. Thanks Cindy
You know something, then it was way worth it!
Great series of shots, especially the first one…a neat little alley that leads to the expanse of the ocean. Picturesque.
I am blown away by your talent my friend so thanks!
Wonderful, really … So full of colors – you can feel the sun … 🙂
Yes, having fun in the sun!! Really happy you enjoyed them~
Bright light, sharp colours and some quite wonderful compositions.
As usual Russel, you are very kind~
Beautiful series of shots. Looks like a wonderful place to meander:)
Well thank you and yes, it is a meander’s paradise!
I do love their creative use of colors. I wonder, do these cheerful colors reflect the mood of the people?
Yes, there is a warmth and family cohesiveness in Hispanic countries that I so appreciate. A kindness and eagerness to have a good time. They celebrate children. I just love the culture. Thank you for the perceptive question~
Oh how beautiful and bright. Love it. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for appreciating!
I want to visit PR so much! Our son honey-mooned there and tells me all the time that I need to go and would love it! 😀
Yes, it has so much to offer from the beaches, the rain forests, to the old walled city! I hope you go~
Me too! 😀
I’m enjoying the virtual Caribbean tour you’ve been taking us on. Thanks! 🙂
It is so much more fun having you along to share with!
Liebe Cindy das sind ja super Fotos und das sieht alles so sauber aus toll einen schönen Abend mit ganz vielen lieben Grüßen kLAUS
Sie sind sehr freundlich! Vielen Dank! Prost! 🙂
Gorgeous photos of San Juan! Beautiful color mix of these building 🙂 Love the tile work of the last photo.
Yes, I am in love with tile work whenever I travel in spain, Latin America and Italy! I have lots in my home too! Thank you my friend~
What a cool collection you have, Cindy! I love tiles 🙂
🙂
Just what I needed as we near the end of a bleak winter. Your photos are splendid Cindy and the colors definitely seem to holler, “Joy to the world.”
They do don’t they!! I love that about them!!!
Beautiful captures! I absolutely love all the vibrant colors! 🙂
I am with you on the color, reminds me of Cinque Terre!
Absolutely!
This is so beautiful and colourful, fantastic.
You are so nice and it is sooo appreciated! Cheers to you~
The colour levels are just as an interested eye would see them. To me, that makes a very good piece of photography. 🙂
So perceptive and so appreciated! Cheers to you my friend~
What gorgeous colors! I now want to go there.
Yay! I hope you do and post your thoughts!
Wow…everything is so bright, colorful and clean looking. Beautiful. And…it looks so warm and sunny. Sigh.
Ah ha, maybe the Caribbean with time in Puerto Rico wants you to visit…….
There seems such a feeling of life there, Cindy. The pictures even project it. Beautiful !
Yes, thank you. It is hard to describe. But that is it exactly. A joy and appreciation for daily life~
Gorgeous photos Cindy – sure makes me wanna go there!
Well, depending on which hemisphere you are in now, I can’t keep track of you, when ya goin??? Laughing…..
You have ‘framed’ a lot of beautifully colored photographs! I appreciated your comment on my post. You have an ‘eye’ for taking the most gorgeous, boldest patterns and love the church picture, also! The intricate patterns in the mosaics and the details all capture me! Smiles, Robin
You are a peach ma deah and I am lucky to have met you here in blogdom~
I come to like the buildings painted with pastel colors like these.
Well time to plan your next trip…..where you gonna go??? It is such a big world with so many wonderful options to choose from! Hugz my friend~
I am thinking 🙂 Thank you.
Fantastic beautiful architecture! Love the colours 😉
Yep. Me too! I love going to other countries and seeing the exuberant use of color!
These are absolutely super photographs…I feel as though am in front of those houses…in those streets…
No wonder those tourists who confuse Puerto Rico with Costa Rica look a bit bemused when they hit our San Jose!
Such beauty! This wonderful influence of Spain, Asia and Indigenous art blending to create unique but connected architectual imprints. I just love it! I can imagine the confusion and the reason for it, but it is all so beautiful!
Beautiful, beautiful colors!
So happy you agree!
Awesome pics Cindy! I love the colors and would love having them in my home!! Vibrant! Hugz Lisa and Bear
The problem is they might errrrrr…….stand out in a normal suburban neighborhood!! Thank goodness The Holler is not such! Laughing…..
The colors, the angles….all stupendous!!!!
I am honored you think so and very pleased too! Thank you~
This city is like a rainbow in and of itself! Though we live in the Smokey Mountains of NC now, Mathair and I are Southwest Floridians (eight generations strong) and with the Cuban culture so inherent in Florida’s makeup, you’d think we’d be used to stuff like this, but you capture it so beautifully and seeing these things through your eyes is like revisiting Florida and being home. Wonderful post, Cindy. Love the images. Sharing now. 🙂
I am fascinated to learn your histories. My husband was a prof at Chapel Hill for nine years. I have never been to the Smokey Mountains but would love to see them. Hear they are spectacular. Florida, well we go several times a year. You are beach babies just like I am, California, but eight generations of your family! That is some serious history. Fascinating! There is is a similar beach vibe and where I grew up, next to the border, a Latin vibe too. But Cuban culture and food is unique. What an interesting life you two have! I of course, want to know more…….
Absolutely beautiful! I want to walk right into my screen!
Oh pull a Mary Poppins and just do it!! If I could I would go to Alsace right now and eat their cookies!
Strange—even mysterious
The photos of a town that give me a sense of déjà vu
I swear I have never been to that town in my whole life
Yet whence comes that strong sense of déjà vu?
I see the people walking, standing or minding to their business of today
They are there so matter-of-factly
But they must be the descendents of the people who built the town
So they must have the same sense of beauty as that their ancestors had
The beauty cannot be felt or seen by itself
But through the architecture, paintings, poems or what have you
That people create to express their sense of beauty
The sense must be immutable and common among all the people
Am I too quick to come to a conclusion?
But I’m only saying things by intuition
I’m proud of my having the sense of déjà vu
Were I in the photos, I’d be shaking hands with those people
Deep down is the sense in everybody’s heart
But long forgotten or ignored to acknowledge
Thus wars, wars and wars
How interesting you should say this!
I too have experienced several instances of deja vu. The earliest when I was around six. Quite powerful when you experience and also pretty close to impossible to discount. Your impressions strike me as powerful and very on mark. How very remarkable!
I don’t hear you making conclusions, just noting your impressions. Old San Juan has a very strong effect on me which is quite impossible to articulate. The photos do it for me. I am quite pleased they provoked this response in you and hope that you are too.
You may consider keeping the prose you wrote. I have a file. You can refer to it and look for patterns over time to try to disern more of what it might mean to you.
I am no expert on this, but I very much respect your feelings and experience and am so pleased you chose to share them.
Yes, the vibrancy of the colors and the history behind the buildings makes for a wonderful vacation and like you said, coming home a little dreary. However, what you capture behind your lens is never dull or boring – HW.
So nice my friend and so glad I am now properly connected to your blog!
I love walking the streets with you on a sunny day, especially since we are in the middle of a huge snowstorm in Vancouver – hard to believe that we are getting so much snow. 🙂
It just woudldn’t be the same without you along! I’m serious. You are such a good blogging friend. Vancouver is such a wonderful city. I can imagine that it is quite cold now. Stay warm and safe. There you are in snow, and here at The Holler there are now dead orchards around us and we are in the midst of the worst drought in California’s recorded history! Our orchards are alive, but many around us are not. Not good…..
I am so very glad that we connected!!! I feel a profound sense of kindred spirits when I come to your place. You welcome the world!!! Thank you, Cindy for giving joy to our community…
Oh course the feelings are reciprocated many times over. You are a dear blogging friend and you are important to me. How lucky I am to have met you!!
It amazes me the different colours chosen for the buildings, one wonders if this is planned… lovely photos, sure cheer up my day…
Interesting point that I hadn’t thought of because it does coordinate beautifully doesn’t it! Old San Juan has UNESCO world site structures in it so I suspect it is possible~
Such a gorgeous photos and I love all this vivid colors ! 🙂
I am with you on the colors! They make me happy. Cheers & thanks my friend~
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Thank you Cindy! If a travel magazine is not paying you to be there-they **should be**!!! I get more than enough hot weather here in St Petersburg but these luscious images make me want to jump on a plane:-) I am seriously going to print these out and refer to them when I get past the primer coat stage in painting my house. Coming home to that sort of cheery colour would be ideal:-)
St. Petersburg is a very old city too, I believe, if not mistaken. These creative color combos might look beautiful and fit the climate. You are so kind and so appreciated my friend. Thank you and hugz to you~
Thank you! St Petersburg is not too old-and run often by developers who seem to fear thst if we dont bulldoze or blow up anything more than a few decades old the city will collapse:-/ St Augustine is the old city here in Florida. Tho we do have some of the lovely colors at least in my neighborhood a lot of people are bringing about a real Key West/Caribbean vibe. Its more spaced out tho with lots of more staid stuff in between. Sometime when I’m feeling better I will get some photos of the more artistic houses and gardens to post. I think the garden art in my neighborhood is exceptionally interesting as we have a lot of artists and musicians here. If I had your talent with a camera I could post lots of cool seabirds but they are usually too fast for me except the ubiquitous Pelicans on channel markers:-)
Oh I look forward to the post! I sounds wonderful. Yes St. Augustine is what I was thinking of. I would love to see the garden art too. Hoping you are feeling better soon and look forward to seeing these posts! Cheers my friend~
So colorful! I love it! Will have to put San Juan on the visit list. Thanks for the show.
Yep another place for the bucket list!! I keep adding to mine, so whay not!!! Laughing~
Love the glimpse of the sea amongst all that colour.
That is part of what makes the Old City so special! FYI: I was just talking to my mother about NZ. She told me to tell you specifically that she thinks all of your country should be a national park! She likes your blog. Cheers to you my friend~
How wonderful that your mother likes my blog. 🙂 🙂 🙂 Please tell her that I am very happy about that. Our New Zealand is so lightly populated that it almost does feel as though the whole country is a national park. We are spoiled.
No, not spoiled, smart, to protect such a spectacular place!
All the color! And the tiles…. I absolutely love old buildings. The older the better. 🙂
Yes exactly like me. The sense of lingering presence is wonderful. We stayed in a fifteenth century hotel in Rothenberg Germany, it was so wonderful. In Bruge we are staying is a small castle……can’t get enough of this time travel!
Please allow me to introduce you to one another. I believe that you will enjoy each other’s work.
Por favor, permítame que le presente a los otros. Yo creo que usted disfrutará de trabajo de los demás.
http://ventisqueras.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/viareggio-lucca-le-follie-ed-i-segreti-del-suo-mitico-carnevale-the-humor-and-the-secrets-of-his-legendary-carnival/
http://cindyknoke.com/2014/02/24/encanta-la-ciudad-vieja-de-san-juan/
Spectacular blog and I am now following it Graham. Thank you so much for this wonderful introduction. I will spend more time today exploring the wonderful posts. What a brilliant introduction Graham. Most appreciative. Cheers to you my friend~
You are welcome 🙂
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I have not had time to post for a while. So I thought I would reblog something worth seeing. Two blogs, both have many fabulous photographs. These are just samples. They remind me of the worth of our planet and the best of our contributions to it. 🙂
Graham
Awwwww. I am quite honored Graham and so grateful. Very kind and very much appreciated. Be well my friend~
You are very welcome 🙂 There is another entry but I think it might have got got lost somewhere at the end. To be sure :-
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Please allow me to introduce you to one another. I believe that you will enjoy each other’s work.
Por favor, permítame que le presente a los otros. Yo creo que usted disfrutará de trabajo de los demás.
http://ventisqueras.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/viareggio-lucca-le-follie-ed-i-segreti-del-suo-mitico-carnevale-the-humor-and-the-secrets-of-his-legendary-carnival/
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How wonderful of you! Your kindness is so appreciated~
awww shucks thing nothing of it ma’am 🙂
Always a darn car in the way! 😛 I can’t get over how colorful and vibrant everything is there! I imagine it must make the people who live there happy to see such cheery colors each day.
I think you imagine very correctly! The colors are uplifting, the cars? Not so much. These old cities are so better suited to the smaller cars ones sees in Europe!
mucho beauty!! Love this location of the world!! ♥ Thank you for the lovely tour!! ♥
Hard to beat the tropical beauty isn’t it! Muchos gracias~
Beautiful! It’s so colorful and festive!
Nice way to live one’s daily life nest pah!
oui oui!
flashy/glassigt
Ja vibrerande!
The colours and the scenes are so postcard pretty! My favourite is the fourth photograph. The perspective of the street with so many interesting details, including the cobbled street, the flags, the nun, and all the balconies and windows. It’s a gorgeous shot!
You have an eye for detail my friend. I did particulary love the nun in the old style habit walking down the old cobbled streets. I am so glad you did too!
Such beautiful pictures and so much colour. It really cheers you up just looking at them.
Here in the UK everything is grey, especially the buildings – sadly.
Have a lovely day!
Katarina 🙂
So happy you enjoyed them and hope they cheered your day! Thanks so much for the kind comments~
Gorgeous pictures!
So very nice to say and makes me most happy!! Gracias~
queste immagini sono davvero spettacolari e ringrazio il blogger Grahamatlinc per avermi permesso di poterlo ammirare!
see you soon
These images are truly spectacular and thank the blogger Grahamatlinc for letting me be able to admire!
You are very kind and I think your blog is spectacular! Graham is wonderful for introducing us~
You capture the colors of old San Juan so well, Cindy! Great pics!
How nice of you to say and how appreciated!
Cindy, thank you for sharing these beautiful images from San Juan. Really enjoyed them. Hugs! Veraiconica
Hugz and appreciation back to you my friend~
Such vibrancy and white is gorgeous too!
It is isn’t it. Never thought of this before……..
Nor did I before..I was looking at my pictures later….interesting isn’t it?
It is interesting, in that we both didn’t see it initially. I didn’t see it until you pointed it out. Odd perceptual filtering. Glad you pointed it out!
The colors are so VIVID! We likey!
Well, who knew a cow could have such diserning taste………Muhcos gracias!
All I need in life is a battered turquoise wall and some sunshine, Cindy 🙂
Beautiful pics!
Ahhhh, yes! The best things in life!
Beautiful, gorgeous, colorful photos, I can visualize it, and can’t believe that a year has past since we were there. I’m not sure if I responded to your question before (I have been so busy)… this weekend we are visiting my son, a short visit. On the last day of March, we are flying into Delhi 2 days, to Singapore 2 days, take a 31-day cruise on Ocean Princess to 2 stops Malaysia, Mumbai, Oman, Dubai and all East of Africa to Cape Town. As elites! 😀 ))) After that, Mid Sept, we are going to Japan for 6 weeks (includes all around japan cruise of 27 days). I guess that’s it for 2014. I will come home with mediocre photos to share. 😉
Laughing……you will come home with marveous posts to share! I can’t wait to see them! We will be elite for our cruise to Russia in September……I wonder when we will be on the same ship? I will definitely know you when I see you! What spectacular plans my friend, you know to live your life to the max! One never knows when it will end. I want to do the Japan cruise too. Cannot wait to hear your thoughts on Africa. I am in love with the continent. Sending your comment to Jim. Have a wonderful time with you son this weekend. Next time I head to SF, I will alert you to see if we can meet~
Spending time together in SF? I’m already so excited!
Me 2!
And, we scoff at bold colors in our neighborhoods!
Oscar
Yes! It’s almost like breaking a taboo in typical American neighborhoods to choose color. Who ordained a beige life for us I wonder!
Sears?
laughing~
I could use all the usual superlatives, but shall just say “WOW” love your blog 🙂
Kenny2dogs.
That is so nice! Smiling~
It definitely has a European flair to me (but I never been either place!). Hubby says it doesn’t look all that different from when he was there in the early 70s!
Yes, this old city stays the same I bet! Cheers to you ma deah~
Seems like you would never be sad being surrounded by all those bright beautiful colors! Really lovely. thx for the photos:)
So schöne Bilder sind alle Klasse.Wünsche ein gutes und schönes Wochenende liebe Grüße und Freundschaft.Gislinde
Thank You Cindy for liking my Painting 🙂 *Cynthia
but but…we have terra cotta…;) Gorgeous, cartoon buildings. I think people are prolly happier to have a Room with a Hue…:)
not to mention a sea view!!! laughing…….
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Vielen danke freund!! 🙂 🙂
I just love all of your wonderful tile shots, Cindy! Each and every one of them! They remind me of some of our most wonderful times in Avalon on Cataliina Island.
Yep, a fellow tile lover in addition to eveything else we have in common. I love handmade tiles! Great to hear from you~
Wow Wow Wow! Your eye for a breathtaking photo is amazing! The colors in these photos are beautiful! I wish we lived close so I could be your student, well at least carry your equipment : ) hehe