Posted by Judy Dykstra-Brown on October 15, 2016, 4:20 pm
In my life, I’ve been a local in four countries and nine towns, yet when the word “local” came up as a prompt today, it didn’t take me long to decide which place to use to define the word. It isn’t where I’ve spent the longest time, as a matter of fact in the six or seven years I’ve been coming here, all of my time wouldn’t add up to more than a year total, but this year I’ll be there for three months in the same house I’ve rented three other times, so I’m wondering if that will qualify me as a local.
Whatever public opinion may be about that, every year if feels as though I own a little bigger chunk of the title and luckily, it’s the place I’ve taken the most photos of over the years. Many of them reside on old external drives I’m too lazy to delve into and a good many were sacrificed to the cyber gods when I spilled a Coke on my keyboard two years ago, but there were plenty to find on my present computer, some of which you may have seen before.
They are a grab bag, not nearly covering the range of experiences I’ve had there: people met, sights seen, sensations felt. But here is part of my little collage, if I can get it posted. An earlier attempt was lost completely before I finished it, but I’ll try again and load as many photos as I can. To see more La Manzanilla photos, you can go here: