Radio Lady invites you to view... Amazing Mexico (PHOTOS of Aztec and Mayan sites from 1984 -- 1990)

[Radio_Lady]

Radio Lady Ellen with Mayan girls at Tulum (1990)

Please go to this link:

http://cards.webshots.com/invite/pickup/125032213oKBZ/album/556316985ihRiYk

Click on "NO thanks, just show me the photos." (You DO NOT have to join Webshots to view the album.)

On the next page with the thumbnail photos, click on "slide show" in the yellow box, upper right.
You can choose 2 and 5 seconds per shot. I find two seconds on each shot to be just perfect.
You also have stop, start, and pause controls. There are 117 shots in all. Grandpa and I hope you enjoy them...

If you have any comments or questions, please post or PM me. Thanks for your patience last night.

Wishing you and your family and friends a very happy holiday season!

Radio_Lady Ellen in Oregon

[malta blue]

1. Those are great!

Thanks so much for sharing them!:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

2. Thanks, Malta Blue. Glad that link is working for you today.

We had some problems last night, so if you were one of the more than 60 people who tried the link and were unsuccessful in seeing our photos, I suggest you try it again. Thanks for your patience.

Wishing you, your family and your friends a very happy and healthy holiday season!

Radio_Lady in Oregon

PS. "The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Radio_Lady!

Well, I can tell you these were definitely worth the wait!

Just fabulous........wonderful pics!

I'll bet you and your husband had a wonderful time...

Thanks for sharing.......and for fixing the link!

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

9. Hi Peg. We did have a wonderful time. We've actually been to many cities in Mexico...

We went there all the time when we lived in Boston -- no snow there in winter!

Acapulco
Cancun
Cozumel
Merida
Mexico City
Puerto Vallarta
Taxco

I know I'm missing a few other places. They were all very successful vacations.

Now that were on the West Coast, we're concentrating on Hawaii and other locations in Europe and Asia. And, before I "shuffle off this mortal coil," we'd like to see Australia and New Zealand.

[deadparrot]

4. Great pics!

The colors are great...I especially like the Pyramid of the Sun and the Lighthouse at Tulum.

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

5. My husband spent hours scanning them in and getting them organized.

He's really very patient with photo editing. He did sharpening and color correction. He says that is pretty easy to do.

[Suich]

6. The stonework is incredible!

Thanks for the new link!

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

7. ... and thanks to YOU for reporting back to me!

Can you imagine the difficulties of working in that climate on these amazing structures? This is the reason I'm having such a problem with Mel Gibson's movie "Apocalypto" -- It's unnecessarily bloody and factually inaccurate -- simpleminded and just plain wrong.

Nevertheless, it's projected to pull in more than $14 million dollars U.S. this weekend.

I'm going to chalk it up to the "curiosity factor."

What ever happened to the Hollywood slogan, "Movies Are Better Than Ever"? Well, this one isn't...

[Xipe Totec]

8. Teotihuacán- "place of those who have the road of the gods"

When the Mexica (Aztecs) arrived in the Valley of Mexico, these ruins were already there. Hence they called them the ancient ones.

Thank you for sharing these beautiful pictures.

:thumbsup:

[Radio_Lady]

10. You're entirely welcome. These are scanned in from prints that have been in our albums for decades.

Google image search brings up so many other beautiful pictures in this Internet age.

OT: Are you still in Massachusetts? Here's a beautiful shot (obviously not ours) of the Sudbury Grist Mill. Someone did an outstanding job capturing the fall colors. My husband was born in Brockton, and we married in Sudbury in 1973, but followed a daughter out here to Portland, Oregon in 1998. Sometimes I get homesick for this place:

[Xipe Totec]

11. Still In New England and loving it.

The fall colors were spectacular this year, but the pace of life prevented me from taking pictures. Here's one from Vermont taken a few years back during Thanksgiving.

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

12. Oh, Vermont is where my kids spent their high school years.

They lived with their father and stepmother in Ludlow, Vermont in the 1980s. I also covered that area for one of the professional divisions of a large pharmaceutical company. It is one of the most beautiful states I've ever seen.

Sadly, my ex-husband just died of lung cancer in South Hero, Vermont, on December 1, 2006. His funeral was last week. It's the passing of an era for the two children I had with him -- and for me, as well.

I know we've talked about this before, but I had to look up your screen name again. I thought it sounded familiar, but would have guessed you were in the southwest U.S.!



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[Xipe Totec]

13. I am a nomad,

I was born in Mexico, lived in Texas for almost three decades, and then moved to New England (better late than never).

I am descended from eight generations of nomads. None of my male ancestors, for the last eight generations, have married or raised a family in the town where they were born (I suspect earlier generations were nomads as well, since I am semitic by direct male line ancestry, and Semites came from the old world).

This is a genealogical oddity that my children have inherited; They are now the ninth nomad generation.


Regarding your ex-husband, I was aware of your loss when it occurred but lacked the moral courage to express my condolences in a timely manner. Allow me to correct this error by extending my sympathies to you and to your children. My heart was with you, though my words were not.

[Radio_Lady]

14. An American nomad! I usually think of the Bedouin tribes for this description!

Come to think of it, maybe there are mostly nomads in the United States now, because people are so mobile! Blame it on the trains, the airlines, and the lure of "the grass is greener" on the other side of the country (except for Phoenix)! :sarcasm:

I am of Jewish (Semitic) heritage, and so were my three (count 'em!) husbands! My parents were both born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (they moved to Miami, Florida when I was three... does that make them nomads?) They didn't produce any more children, but I am a second generation American who raised her family (and three stepkids, too) in New York, Miami, Hendersonville, North Carolina, and finally Boston. My daughter's grandmother used to call her "the gypsy" because we were always moving around.

My husband was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. However, my husband's father was from Russia and he spoke Russian, broken English and Yiddish. Hubby's mother was born in Brooklyn, NY; her father and mother were from Roumania.

Thinking about what you have said, my husband and I don't have much ability to trace the generations further than three back. He found his father's name in a ship's manifest on the Ellis Island site. I could only find my maternal grandmother, who came to America with her family when she was two years old. My natural grandmother died in childbirth and little is known about her. My grandfather married her younger sister, who was living in -- of all places -- Orlando, Florida in the early 1900s! Wow, I wish I could have known more about "Grandma Ruth," but we were separated by distance.

Our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers all were from Eastern Europe: All moved to the United States during the early 1900s, driven out by the Czar(s) of Russia, or the "darkening clouds" of Nazism from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Roumania. My ex-husband, the one that passed away, was from Danzig, Freistag (a Free State at that time) now part of Poland. He came here with his parents when he was three or four.

Actually, it's ironic that I've known more about my AKC pedigreed dogs than my own history -- at the time I was raising and breeding Boston Terriers and Cocker Spaniels, we always drew up a six-generation pedigree for breeding or puppy-selling purposes!

Thank you so much for your kind comments about my deceased ex-spouse. He always loved New England, and especially Vermont (he was raised in a dark and claustrophobic little apartment in Washington Heights, NY). Like me, raised in Miami, he took pleasure in a four season climate, and he was an intermediate skiier. We thought about moving to Stowe, Vermont in the 1960s -- and even to Maggie Valley, North Carolina in 1970. But there was no real way to support ourselves in these rural areas.

However, it was the present wife (widow) who actually helped him get his life together in Ludlow, Springfield (where they were in business), and finally South Hero, Vermont.

In peace,

Radio_Lady

[Radio_Lady]

15. I'm curious. Do any of you folks send these picture threads on to others?

Of the 111 people who supposedly looked at this DU thread, I wonder how so many others have gotten to see it?

The post count at the web site is almost triple that number in just a few hours!!!!

Some of my previous photo threads are archived at DU, but still have amazingly high view numbers at the Webshots site even months later.

Thanks for your interest.

[Radio_Lady]

16. My wish for all of you is that you have the time, money, and health to travel ... soon!

In peace,

Radio_Lady in Oregon


Mayan Profile by Hyatt Moore (from Guatemala)

From: http://www.hyattmoore.com

[Kali]

17. Nice. I looked at these last night and couldn't find this

post after they finished loading (slow dial-up, family duties) Now I can't remember exactly which shot number it was, but I wanted to ask if you're husband was Olmec? heh heh (the one of him by the stone head) I saw a resemblance! at least the "hair" style. ha ha

[Radio_Lady]

18. My husband is shaved bald now, but he's not one bit Olmec.

His father was Russian, but we think there is some Mongolian or Tibetan blood there somewhere. He has kind of almond shaped eyes and a little pug nose (not usual among Eastern European Jews). His mother was born in Brooklyn, New York; her parents were from Roumania.

In the late 1980s, after he gave up the toupee (!) and began to shave his entire head of the 1/4 cup of hair he had left, he frequently got comments about looking like Telly Savalas or Yul Brynner. He was shaving his head before it became popular with younger athletes.

I took a picture of him at the J. W. Marriott hotel in 1988, near their rooftop pool. He was wearing the all-white bathrobe they loan to their guests... he was in a praying position and he looked like an Asian holy man. I'm going to have to look for that picture.


Radio Lady's 50th High School Reunion -- it's Luau night! October 2006

[sinkingfeeling]

19. I went to Tulum, Uxmal, Chichen-Itza, and Tikal in 1990 as well.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. Peggy Hill? Is that you?