Some Beautiful Blooms

Right now, we have two very beautiful plants in bloom–a bird of Paradise and a small heliconia that I really like because it looks as if it’s trying to becom a bird of Paradise when it grows up!
 
The flower is not quite fully open in this picture, which I took Sunday.  The first time this [...]

Hiatus

Obviously, I haven’t been around lately.  Last week, thanks to an accident to the antenna that services this particular area, we were without Internet access for 48 hours.  Which followed a loss of water for 24 hours; one of the principal water supply tubos of the municipio broke thanks to increased water pressure from an [...]

And Next Up Is

fly season, which is more or less centered around the month of June.  However, it can extend into May, and we’re already starting to see more flies than we’d like to.
Some years are worse than others.  We moved in the house in June, 2005; Mary still remembers freaking out when our white truck, parked outside [...]