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Pond muck and Carnaval beads

Let’s see… it is Carnaval so things are hopping with parties, parades, music, traffic and crowds. I got stuck in one of the worst traffic jams I’ve ever seen here in Mérida last Friday, and I wasn’t even in the Centro. I was out in Colonia Mexico trying to get back home on Circuito [...]

views from the pool

bananas and heliconias

Claritan is a wonderful thing, I’m feeling much better when I take one in the morning. I still go down first thing and dive in the pool and then float and look at my garden, it’s as good as the coffee that follows. I got out and got the camera [...]

The Scent of Friendship

Putting up the trellis

Putting up the trellis

Last week some workers came to install a trellis outside our bedroom on the private terrace.  It is another of the original protectores from one of the back kitchen doors.

They have removed the hinges and the connecting pieces and separated it into two.  I want it on the wall so the jasmine vine can grow up it.

I love how they just get a chisel and break open the wall here when they want to put something up. Continue reading The Scent of Friendship