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JARDINES DE LA ALAMEDA
2009   200 Jardines

Miembros  - Members
PROYECTO DE JARDINIZACIÓN DE LA ALAMEDA SANTA LUCIA
  LA ANTIGUA

Easter
Semana Santa

Carpets ... photos
Processions ... animated sequences

JUNE 2007 New York-Mexico Trip

MAY 2006
David's GRADUATION University of Rochester

MARCH 2006
Jennifer's Birthday and Tuk-Tuk


CHRISTMAS 2005 WILLIAMSBURG
 
HALLOWEEN 2005

Cernikovsky Family Christmas 2004  mail

Fuego explosions
8th January 2003, 2004

January 2003
Antigua family photos


House 2007
Photos 2003
Baths 2002
Kitchens 2002
Fireplaces 2002
Fountain 2006
Guest Apt 2004
NYC to Antigua trip 2002

Contact us

Jenny
Graduation 2003

Paris
April 2003


Germany, Luxembourg
June 2003

London
April 2002








 



Tomas, Barbara, Jennifer & David Cernikovsky

Apto. Postal #169, Alameda Santa Lucia Norte #12
La Antigua 3001, Guatemala

502-7832-8466 casa
502-5916-5331 celular Tomas
502-5408-4113 celular Barbara
U.S. Residence:
1122 Ben Hur Drive
Houston, TX 77055

Tomas:   cernikovsky@hotmail.com
Barbara:
barbcern@hotmail.com
U.S. Mail:
Tomas Cernikovsky (A-369)
P.O.Box 669004
Miami Springs, FL 33266
Jenny:  jennystar2@hotmail.com

David:  
dave.cern@gmail.com
Click here to read more about the 200 gardens that we have constructed in the Alameda Santa Lucia between 2002 - 2009
We have two full-time, excellent gardeners.  Felix, on the right, takes care of our gardens inside the house, the planted area behind, as well as hundreds of plants in the hallways and the rooftops.  Benigno, in the red shirt, takes care of the Alameda, watering, planting, fumigating, fertilizing, and so on.  He again comes on Sundays and takes garbage out of all the gardens.  Here they are in May 2009 (our house on the right), planting a new jacaranda tree, in garden #196. 
Click here to read more about the 200 gardens that we have constructed in the Alameda Santa Lucia between 2002 - 2009
 Further down the street, here are two more new jacaranda trees, #199 and 200, in May 2009.  After the photo was taken, the metal "protections" were installed, without which new trees would not survive in the Alameda.  Click here to go to the 7 pages that describe the project and its "members" ... between 2002-2009, we have constructed 200 gardens, which we are maintaining.  We have planted 72 new trees in new places, and as replacements for trees that died.  Of the 200 gardens, in the 7 years, 26 got smashed by crazy drivers and with the help of friends and neighbors, we have replaced them.  Benigno, our gardener in the Alameda, is busy every day of the week.

During Semana Santa in Antigua, hundreds of thousands of people visit for the Easter processions.  This photo was on Palm Sunday in front of our house.

Semana Santa in Antigua: the float, called "anda", carried by 80 men, is passing our house (yellow, on the left) on Palm Sunday. Click to see our photos of carpets and an animated sequence of a procession passing our house.
Breakfast on the balcony of "El Antiguo Vapor" hotel in Guanajauto, the buidling used to be an iron forge a few hundred years ago, then a bakery in the 20th century, now a lovely hotel.  Click to see a larger image.
We drove from Antigua to Houston, in two cars, with Barbara's wheelchair, and then took a long trip returning home through Mexico, in January and February 2009. The photos are coming ... please visit us again soon.  This is breakfast at our lovely hotel overlooking Guanajuato, one of the old colonial silver mining towns.
Right after we returned from Mexico, Josef & Jana Cernikovsky, from Vermont, visited us in Antigua and we made some trips around Guatemala together.  Josef is a first class photographer.  To see the best of the 5,000 photos that he took, click here.


Antigua at Christmas 2008 ... the whole family's here

Christmas 2008 in our garden ... it's very sunny
Please click to see many of our photos from Sumpango
Jennifer & Monica, at the "giant kites" of Sumpango, not far from Antigua, 1st November 2008.  Click on this photo to see many others from this fascinating trip, with many friends

Forbidden City in the center of Beijing
June 2008:  In the Outer Court of the "Forbidden City" in the center of Beijing, fascinating!  Click here to go to an index of all our photos from Korea and China.  Barbara wrote a long narrative of the trip on that page.

In front of the Birds' Nest Olympic Stadium
The last day in Beijing it was raining and we took a day-long taxi ride from one spot to another, the driver waiting while we had lunch, shopped for shoes or saw places, and here he took us to pose in front of the Birds' Nest, the Olympic Stadium.

Great Wall of China at Badaling
The Great Wall of China:  we climbed a stretch of it and here you can see more of the Wall below us.  Originally 6,000 km long, it still climbs today over the mountain ranges.

Alameda Santa Lucia, Antigua

Easter "Domingo de Ramos" ... Palm Sunday, a block-long carpet, made of coloured sawdust in front of our house is ready to be destroyed by the procession that will be coming down the Alameda Santa Lucia (see an animated sequence).  We contribute each year towards the cost of carpets.  In the background, Jenny's shop is on the left of the house.

Jenny is 25!  Click to see many photos!
Jennifer's 25th birthday ... 12th March 2008 ... Guatemala City ... click for more photos
It's really hot this close to the lava flow on Pacaya, click for a more photos ...
Climbing up Volcano Pacaya to see red hot lava, 2008.  Click to see more photos ...

March in Antigua ... our garden is blooming ... Felix takes good care of it, and he is growing lots of new amaryllis plants
Our garden in Antigua with a couple of amaryllis plants that Felix keeps on dividing, so we have more and more here and some to give.  

Welcome to Antigua, Guatemala, the land of eternal Springtime and our house ...
Barbara and Ana Maria in our kitchen ... they have been spending money on flowers again, as they do every Saturday in the market just behind our house.  All these flowers cost about $6!  What a treat!  In New York, that would have been $60!  After they get the flowers, they go in the market again and buy fruits and vegetables for the coming week.  Sammy, also in the photo, does not do any shopping.


Here is a colourful blessing, in April 2007, of the newly paved section of the market behind our house, attended by hundreds of Mayan women in typical clothes.  Behind the priest, who was blessing baskets full of vegetables, is the back of our house.

David and mom at Rochester - May 2006
Proud mom with David in Rochester, N.Y. during graduation in May 2006

Jennifer opened, in February 2006, a DVD rental store in one of the shops in the front of our house
Jennifer and Helen on opening day of JennyStar DVD Rentals in our house, February 2006

OCTOBER 2004.  Hello from Antigua, returning from a 5 week trip, a 25th anniversary repeat, through Italy
October 2005 Venice Again

Welcome to Alameda Santa Lucia Norte #12, Antigua, Guatemala
Our house, September 2006, with Guatemalan flags for Independence celebration ... it's Guatemalan "winter" ... trees and flowers are growing rapidly.  Jennifer's "JennyStar DVD Rentals is on the left

March 2003 ... the garden is growing ... Barbara's project ... flowers grow in Antigua all year
March 2003 - garden is growing


Everybody visiting - January 2003

2002:  We're moving to Antigua !  Click to see photos of our trip with a 48 ft tractor-trailer.  Plan to visit us !

February 2002:  on the road to Antigua, with our new truck

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