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A few of my photos were temporarily lost to me when my poor old pc died. I finally got around to transferring them from the old hard drive. This picture was taken last year when I went for my annual eye exam. This is my friend and optometrist Lara.

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In just a couple hours traditional mas' characters like this little guy and others are gonna take to the pre- dawn darkened streets for J'ourvert (Jour ourvert) to start or open the carnival festivities in Port of Spain. From the Patois for "devil"  and "molasses" the simple costume consists of short pants with a wire tail, horns and a pitchfork. In olden days they smeared themselves with molasses. Nowadays the whole body is smeared with grease, mud, paint or chocolate. This blue devil was spotted at my son's school carnival parade. Jab Molassies are usually accompanied by imps beating tins who attempt to restrain him by pulling on the rope or chain around his neck.They put on quite a show and try to scare onlookers by banging on tins blowing whistles demanding that you pay the devil in order to be left alone.

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Wow, some days I really suck at this. This was one such day. I hated all the pictures I took of Isabel who was incredibly gracious in spite of my atrociousness . In my defence I was distracted by all that chocolate.  You see Isabel is a chocolatier and being in her home was like being in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory minus the crazy Johnny Depp.  Isabel's chocolates are featured here. Go on check them out.  All that yummy chocolate will make you forget that I messed up this picture.

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Tracey is a Trinidadian multimedia visual artist living and working in Grenada. We met through blogging and when she was here in December she kindly brought me a little pressie. Yay! Click here to see what I got. I was a tiny bit nervous to meet her but we fell right away into an easy conversation while my kids invaded her home (my apologies) and were totally enchanted by her dad. Tracey herself is also a talented photographer who finds beauty in the ordinary little things you and I see everyday yet take for granted.  Click here to check out the work of this talented young artist.

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This little lovely is my god-daughter. Here we have the pink hat again but Natassia decided to add earrings to the mix. Do you know of any little girl that doesn't like to play dress-up?

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Katelyn is pint-sized so when she came out in Aunty Joanne's oversized hat, it was absolutely time to whip out the camera. Katelyn is big sister to Kellan (#37)  and they both have the same large, dreamy eyes.