I spent some time re-absorbing my cruise pictures one-by-one on a February day in mid-April. The temp was mid-30s, flurries in the morning. Heavy cloud-cast as ever. I needed to look at those sunny pictures.
There was a picture of a poster on a run-down building taken in Falmouth (not pronounced "Foul Mouth" fyi) with a picture of three black women with words partially obscured: “arm ueen”. I deduced “Farm Queen” (call me a genius) and then googled and sure enough there’s a Jamaican agricultural queen contest, sort of like the queen of the Ohio State Fair.
There was also a large mural that advertised various varieties of spirits which also had images of Jamaican heroes, unknown to me before googling. A slave named Sam Sharpe, and a legislator William Gordon to name two. Good amount of history on the Caribbean island.
Learned that the rosary I bought at the Mexico port was made of cubed hematite. Hematite is a blackish mineral. The stone is said to bring inner peace and dissolve negative energy into love and lower blood pressure. Nice I won't have to take BP meds anymore lol.
The man below looks like he's chiseled of hematite. He's what I imagine the biblical character Job would look like.
Beautiful downtown Falmouth with an old church in the picture twice, once as inset. I jogged there and found it closed alas:
In Jamaica, where all the traffic barriers look phallic:
This seems like an old Victorian house that's almost completely falling down but was used as a backdrop/lounge area for the newer house added on:
This looks like a grounded UFO of some sort:
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