Blogs I Read

shots from my iPhone

I was reading a blog the other day from someone who had come to Mexico for the first time on vacation. It was interesting the things they noticed that I never think about anymore – like the cart escalators at grocery stores. It got me thinking about what I no longer notice here that [...]

Flowering trees of Mérida

I took pictures today of the incredible Flamboyán (Delonix regia) and Lluvia de Oro (Cassia fistula) trees in bloom on all the streets of the city. The Flamboyán is known in English as the Royal Poinciana and the Lluvia de Oro as the Golden Shower tree, both are tropical and only survive in zones [...]