San José

San José
Maroons
Sugar Mills
Promenade
Panorama
Caribbean 
Bonsai

Psalm 24:2
" For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods."

 "A row of guns were booming at a distant enemy"~~~Stephen Crane

Panorama de los Cerros de Escazú desde el oriente de San José 

Sugar Mill ruin, Caribbean

 

Real swans in Langley Park by jerry lake

-Pine Bonsai Japanese Bonsai Garden

E. Katie Holm, “Nanny of the Maroons: Jamaica, c. 1680 — c. 1750,” part of the series Women Warriors, 2011 Nanny of the Maroons was a Jamaican spiritual leader who fought against British slave trading during the eighteenth century. An expert strategist, Nanny implemented the use of camouflage and guerilla warfare to protect her people…

THE SUGAR INTEREST
 ENGLISH SETTLERS IN Jamaica knew them as  Maroons, black slaves of fierce character whose ancestors had escaped when their Spanish owners were driven from the island by the British in the 1650s. These slaves had fled to remote mountain glens in the center of the island, and there they had  survived and prospered for more than eighty years, repelling all English efforts to dislodge them. Year by year their numbers had grown as new slaves , imported into Jamaica at great expense, worked a few years on the sugar plantations, then disappeared into the mountains to form the new stock of Maroons.   CARIBBEAN: Ch.VII The Sugar Interest. James A. Michener

Chess:  "San José"" "Maroons" "Sugar Mills" "Promenade" "Panorama" "Caribbean" "Bonsai"