sun dried tamatos

first experment in making sun dried tamatos, they taste great like rasins very sweet.

sacred flower

Brugmansia or Angel Trumpet,
Scopolamine is the agent causing the powerful hallucinations.
Brugmansia is also widely reputed to have aphrodisiac effects

flower

the flower opened last night, it has a strong perfume smell that fills the whole green house, it will be great when more are flowering. 

sacred flower

a freind sent me seeds of this flower, its about to open, not sure what its name is. 

peter pan

he is checking to see if the puppies taste good 

this gorge is where the train passes from cusco to machu picchu

this is a Inca temple in the cave. it is about 45m from the train tracks.

we could cross if we had to, with a few hours of work shoveling off the high peek of the mud slide, but we did not have to cross.

a good 50 meters of road is blocked by the mud slide.

 

feb 14,

happy valentines day

Peter Pan

Peter pan the dog is getting bigger.

Vagonar

from Volkswagon to Vagonar.

Jeffs house

this is the tree of life with 7 branches, made out of colord bottels and waste glass from a window shop, lots of sharp edges.

Urubamba

Yes its not tourists season, its rainbow season here in the sacred Valley.
foto Eric Hudson

Quenqo

Toronto boy up in the Andes. 

Quenqo

Going over the new disighns for the Toronto Show 

Quenqo

driving down hill at 4100m asl in the LandRover Defender TDi5

Quenqo

The Cori Cocha Lake, taken from a hill at 4150m asl. 

Quenqo

This2 month old Llama is one of Quenqos newest additions to their llama herds.

Cameloids

The llama and her new born baby,, llama is the beast of berden, a male llama will carry up to 25 kilos (100lbs) their wool is not used much in weavings but is used for makeing rope and rugs.

Cameloids

the Vicuña is the smallest of the 4, and has the finest fleece int he world, 4 vicuñas produce 1 kilo of wool, it sells for $450 usd.

Cameloids

This is the Suri Alpaca, sporting long dread locks. This breed will produce 5 kilos or more of fine wool.

Cameloids

Of the 4 familys of cameloids in the Andes, the Guanco is very rarely seen, is not domisticated.

Cameloids

This Llama is from central Peru, very large.