I was born in San Diego.
It is a cultural crossroad, the most southwestern US city that shares a border with Mexico.
The phenomenal artistic influence of Mexico is everywhere, which is probably why I so love the creative use of vibrant color.
Mexicans owned this territory, long before we ever got here, and before we subsequently declared many of them “illegal immigrants”.
Old Town in San Diego celebrates Mexican art, food, and culture.
It preserves many of the area’s original adobe ranchos, as well as the old pioneer homesteads, which I will show you in the next post.
Cheers to you from San Diego’s vibrant multi-cultural crossroads.
Ah!…Mexico! Glorious colours. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you more for appreciating!
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Feast of the colors!
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Yes and no calories either! 😉
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true:)
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I love this, Cindy. I live in an area with a large Hispanic community and I can vouch for their love of vibrant colors. And that color spreads to their food, music and dispositions. Beautiful photos!
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Perfect description, I am completely at home with the culture, because the culture is my home! ❤
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One of the brightest and most inspirational crossroads I’ve encountered!
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Hope you come down and visist us someday!
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Ooo a blast of inspiration in color! I love it!
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Works for me too! Glad you were inspired~ ❤
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Beautiful Images Cindy. So much colour too 🙂
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So happy you enjoyed los colores!
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I love San Diego. Beautiful, colorful crafts and photos. ❤
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Ooops… Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, and wonderful remainder of the holiday weekend. ❤
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Visa versa 2 U X 2 Fae and many, many more! ❤
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Gorgeous! I’ve never been….Must go now! Well, not now now…
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Laughing, hope it is soon! ❤
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Que viva San Diego!!! Beautiful post, full of vibrant colors and great art, thanks Cindy. Wanda
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Thank you more for the appreciation & cheers to you~ ❤
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I love the wild busyness of the images here. It it eccletic and beautiful, like the inner hippy I never got to release. 🙂
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Never, EVER, let her go! You will need her someday~ 🙂 ❤
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Wow, the colors are incredible. Nice job on the photos, and I like the thoughts as well.
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So pleased and happy you do! Thank you and be well~
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Wunderschöne bunte Bilder es gibt viel zu sehen.Wünsche einen schönen ersten Advent liebe Grüße und Freundschaft.Gislinde
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Vielen danke Gislinde! Grube und Freundschaft! ❤ ❤
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Amazing color!!!♡
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I love it too! Happy making~
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Cindy, I loved this post. I miss the southwest so very much! Huge hugs.
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Oh so happy you enjoyed and sad you are missing the southwest. Stay tuned I will post some more for you~ ❤
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We have visited there last year. I was so overwhelmed, didn’t where to start taking pics. I love your beautiful and colorful photos; they tell the unique culture and its history 🙂 Thank you, Cindy! 🙂
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Yes! I know exactly what you mean. For me the only way to process the intensity of textures and colors is to examine it at my leisure in a close up photo. Otherwise it overwhelms me too~
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The city “San Diego” looks beautiful! I will visit it someday. 🙂
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Let me know before you go and I will give you some tips!
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Sure! I will let you know. Thank you very much.
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Wow, all those colours! Beautiful. 🙂
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Yes, perfect for cloudy days, and well…..sunny days too! 😉
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A touch of home north of the border. It is one of the beautiful aspects of the Mexican culture, their love of color, it is a genetic disposition that spills into the cobblestone streets and adorns their lives. And you don’t even have to life here, your photographs reach everywhere.
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I love Latin America. I just relax and my blood pressure slows as soon as I start speaking only spanish.
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A feast of color for the eyes!
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That miraculously calms the brain!
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Glorious. I like your point about illegal immigrants.
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Generally I tend to avoid making points, but this one, well I couldn’t resist…… 😉
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Cindy, this is so colorful , really like it. Has such a good feel to it. Thank you for sharing! Hugs! Veraiconica
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Cheers & hugz to you my friend~ ❤
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Gorgeous colors..vibrant you can almost “feel” them……:D
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Yes, how perfectly you captured this vibrancy with just one perfect word. I hadn’t thought of ‘feeling’ the colors, but that is it precisely~
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This is beautiful, what colors their crafts have, it’s so quant and cheerful.
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Yes, this artisitic use of color lifts one’s spirits with the joy of life!
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Very interesting and stunning photo’s, Cindy 🙂
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Grazi James & cheers to you~
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Read a lot about San Diego and found that it is lovely and safe place in US. If you did not leave short but informative notes I would think it is Mexico.
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Yes, there is a lot of wonderful cultural overlap in bordertowns. I love the energy~
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Marvelous pattern and color!
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Don’t you love the creative use of color. I have to go back and soak more of it up!
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Glorious. My aunt married someone from Mexico, and I love Mexican art, having grown up with it in my family. 🙂
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Yes, it is special and wonderful and my house is a hacienda, full of Latin American art so we are on the same page as usual! ❤
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I’m fond of Talavera. 🙂
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Excellent post, dear Cindy… Awesome gallery of photographs.
Thanks for sharing them !. All my love. Aquileana 🙂
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Love and good wishes back to you my friend~ ❤
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All of these photographs show heritage and interesting colors, details and meanings. I studied them before, but didn’t take the time to comment. I enjoyed this post so much!
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So happy you enjoyed them as I did my friend. I am not surprised! We tend to see things similarily.
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beautiful colors
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Muchas gracias y muy amable!
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Wow! Amazingly colorful 🙂 🙂
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Love the vibrancy! Cheers to you~
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Cheers to you too 🙂
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