Sunday, July 10, 2011

Exotic Designs Here & There

For our honeymoon we traveled to Central America with the turn around point at Panahachel, Guatemala. My favourite city was Antigua, very authentic to its culture. We loved it so much that we ended up staying there an extra week!

We enjoyed the everyday ways of life of Antigua we frequented the busy and colourful market…it was their main “shopping mall” I connected with their florist, of course, and even though we did not speak the same language, we did have the language of flowers that bridged our gap. We shared a few tips and exchanged favourite styles of design. It’s interesting how we used the same techniques but the designs differ with cultural needs and weather. The tropical plants that we cherish here are common and inexpensive there. The Pine tree they cherish and consider “exotic”. It seems to be human nature to find things in other places exotic.

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