Seen and Herd

At the town market this week, there were more livestock on sale than I have ever seen here before. But it wasn’t just what was on sale, it was how it was on sale. If intricate window displays rake in the big bucks for designer stores in New York, then I guess the Guatemalan equivalent is the promenade in front of the primary school.





The goats were so novel that when Sachiko and I chatted at the end of the day, we started our conversation with the same question, “Did you see the goats today?” Unfortunately, goats are not the must-have accessory this season, and I saw the vendor loading all 12 goats into a pickup truck to return them from whence they came. But maybe they’ll be baaaaack.