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Sepia Saturday 353: 4th February 2017

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STEPS OF INGLESIA SAN TOMAS, GUATEMALA - STATE LIBRARY OF FLORIDA (1938) Well I'm going to use a photo I've used before for Sepia Saturday but I think I cropped it earlier.  Here it is in all its glory again..... Alex and Barbara Conner Leith Waters Edinburgh 1971 I'm not going to talk about the photo because there isn't much to say.  You can figure out why I picked it. I did have fun though looking up Chichicastenango in Guatemala.  I have to date been remarkably ignorant about Guatemala and feel that I have led a somewhat narrow existence. The photographer of the photo prompt in Sepia Saturday this week was Joseph Janney Steinmetz.   Here's a photo of him on his way to Guatemala. I wondered what music might be connected to Chichicastenango and found this on YouTube. Speaking of music, I went to a funeral this weekend.  Sounds glum I know.   It was a hot day.  I should have worn a hat like the people in the photo but I wasn'...