While I am back here in the United States, I wanted to share many of the images I’ve gathered and collected during my most recent visit to Colombia..  Some of these images will be familiar to long-term readers from various posts about my trips to Lerida, visits to the finca, and day-to-day encounters with different and interesting people in Colombia.

I hope you enjoy!

People and Places in the nation of Colombia

on a Techo por mi pais building project – in south Bogota

on a Techo por mi pais building project – in south Bogota

on a Techo por mi pais building project – in south Bogota

on a Techo por mi pais building project – in south Bogota

students from the local beauty school, south Bogota

everything gets recycled – these panels are used for roofing

kids playing in South Bogota

Techo family

the finished house

the best model for a novice photographer..

Jo

a ranch hand at a working finca outside Bogota

My friend, the photographer, documenting Colombian life

sunset in the mountains above Bogota

one of my favorite models – at a finca

a view of Bogota at night

vacation finca

buying fruit at the side of the road

ruins of Armero, site of volcano tragedy

a vacation finca

in Lerida

street in Lerida

ruins at Armero

in Tolima

training school for police pilots

Church in Mariquita

the bogota castle

Not what I was expecting

working on the mural

Bogota mural artist

Bogota cityscape

a work in progress

a homeless woman rests against a construction barrier of one of the newest Bogota high rises

The Hotel B3 on Carrera 15

lazy Sunday in Usaquen

Usaquen

vintage rides in Usaquen

A girl offering puppies in the park (with parents, not pictured)

German Encino and his wife at one of my favorite casual restaurants

Church in the Valley outside of Bogota

The tram to Monserrate

Panorama of Bogota from Monserrate

enjoying sugar mangos

panela

young man selling lechona in Tolima

Camila

in one of the poorer neighborhoods in Bogota

south Bogota

street art

at the local market

Colombia Civil Defense

man making jewelery

‘Paint the car’ charity event