San Ramón de la Nueva Orán

We stayed at the Hotel Alta Verde in this last small city before the Bolivian border. The hotel has very comfortable rooms, a good restaurant, a large swimming pool, & a gym. The city is dusty & cross-streets are mostly unpaved. A brilliant yellow poinciana is blooming in the main plaza outside the hotel

Hotel Alta Verde

fountain in the plaza

dusky-capped flycatcher

early morning flower market

gates to the cemetery

dying cicada

aging tractor

Dame Barbara Hepworth

"I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not."

— Dame Barbara Hepworth

English Sculptor

1903 - 1975

Discipline is one of the keys to being an artist or a writer.  One needs to work every day.  People often say: 'I work when I am inspired.'  If you wait until you are inspired, you will be waiting a long time.  If you work whether you are inspired or not, you will find that soon inspiration will become a constant companion.  Work opens up the creative spirit and the inspiration flows.  So my message is simple:  work every day even if it is for only 15 minutes.