i am a friendly princess

conversation from a couple of days ago between dada and ruby
dada: ruby you are going to see your friends in new york
ruby: yeah
dada: you are a friendly little girl
ruby: i am a friendly princess!

Omar Wahol artwork for me!!

mama bought me this amazing 3'x3' photo of 2 capeverdean girls by her friend Omar Kamilo...it is in the living room and i am sure i will love it when i see it (i am in new york so have not seen it yet)

i heard dada call mama anahory so i called her ahh ohhh rry!!!!!!!!!!

I'm in NEW YORK

me and my friend Frida in fort greene...

on my way to the airport.

...i got myself a kool hairdo!

workshop/research center june 29-july 3

mama, the president of the university and tia andreia

kadiatou, celia and dominique

at the office

being interviewed for the radio

dominique, kadiatou, mama, andreia, celia and nele (tia nazia took the photo)in porto madeira

wind and hair

dominique smoking a cohiba at the after party at omar camilo's place

July 4th kisses

kissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
me

kissssssssssssssssss mama

kissssssssssssssssssssssssssssss dada

Santo Antao Island

just amazing....

..>>>yeah there are pine trees here!

valleys and canyons...

you should plan a hike here!!

Sao Vicente Island

the bay of mindelo (monte cara in the background)

casa cafe mindelo...>>:...the cafe

casa cafe mindelo (www.casacafemindelo.com) need i say more??!?
there is much more to mindelo then the casa cafe mindelo but this is a good example of what there is...

mama at the cafe

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dada at the cafe

weekend in Maio Island

we went to Maio Island for the weekend and I got sick so spent all of saturday like this. Good thing we stayed at a lovely bed and breakfast called casita verde (http://www.casita-verde.de/) so it was more tolerable (if one can consider being sick tolerable)

we went to the beach at the end of the day...i enjoyed the seabreeze but was still not quite myself

...>>>>

mama insisted on going to the salt marshes and she was almost turned into salt. she sank in knee deep and lost her slippers...also got covered in black sooth that burned her skin....uncle tony who is from maio said that if it was the rainy season (the one time mama was happy it barely rains in cabo verde!) she would have been swallowed...i did not know all of this but knew something was up and screamed as loud as i could (i have a lot of practice screaming so that was no problem). i am glad my mom survived the salt monster

it got hot...mama will tell you since she lost her flip flops at the marsh ....she was walking abrefoot in the heat ...yeah...cobble stones get hot in the mid day sun

some images of maio

composition in blue.white and orange

under the pier

Ruby and Neyma