Looking down towards the Jardín Unión from the roof of Casa Mirador … if you look carefully, at about 9:00 you will see the statues atop the façade of the Teatro Juárez.

Eastward from the roof at night.  The tiny white spot in the distance is the moon rising.

… with Maggie Hug (¡Maestra Abrazo!), an ESL specialist and the other Fulbrighter from my group who elected to stay on in México.  She was teaching at the University of Nayarit and came for a visit to Guanajuato.  We are in the Jardín UniónÑ behind us you see part of the steps and façade of the Teatro Juárez.

… after the concert which concluded my workshop in interpretation of contemporary music during the Fulbright year, with some of the students who participated (L-R): Sylvia Martínez, 'cellist, Josué Zamora, composer; Cristina Ponce, 'cellist; composer and colleague Ramón Montes de Oca); Vladimir Peña, composer.  During that year I started to collaborate with Maestro Montes de Oca in his composition workshop, which is modelled on the famed Composition Workshop of great Mexican composer Mario Lavista, with whom Montes de Oca studied.   Like my own workshop, it's very intense and very open at the same time.   Both Josué and Vladi were enrolled in Montes de Oca's workshop, and so our two classes began to take on a kind of parallel existence: the fertile and thought-provoking symbiosis between composer and interpreter was always in the forefront of discussion in both workshops.

… with psychologist Josie Wilson (of Southern Oregon University), the other Fulbrighter of my group who was teaching at the University of Guanajuato.   You can see the delight on our faces: we've just climbed to the summit of La Bufa, a magical place close to the sky where it is so silent that you hear the passage of a swallow humming through the air as though it were a tiny thunderclap.  "Bufa", it appears, is an onomatopoeic word which comes from the sound the wind makes in a place which has acoustically propitious rock formations.

…  a short way down from the summit.