the Balinese love their fake animals. . . statues pop up everywhere and some of them are pretty funny. The tradition comes from a mix of Hindu and old-school animism. Yep, these folks literally worship nature. Maybe I should convert?
Category: holy nature
Lousy photo of the Arbol de la Vida (the Tree of Life). . . who knew it was in a Mexican Restaurant in Denver?
Jesus, nailed to a tree. . .
peek a buddha . . .
Jesus in a forest…
It was the mischievous monk Dominic Benedicto San De Carbunkle who first decided to grow weeds on the steeple of the 13th century church, Santa Maria Del Carmine…
There are human settlements in the Galapagos, mainly sleepy Ecuadorian tourist towns with hotels, restaurants, souvenir shops, dive shops, and churches. Lots of churches. Which I thought was weird. They are sort of like forts in hostile territory.
If you die in the Galapagos, where do you go, heaven or hell? Yeah, yeah, I know what the correct answer is, you don’t go anywhere… your body is eaten by Galapagosian worms…and you return to the circle of life… and blah, blah, blah… but forget materialistic logic. I don’t care. I’m going with heaven on this one.