This is the first time I’ve been back to La Manzanilla in a year and the activity was amazing with thousands of sardines jumping up into the air around us and frigate birds and pelicans swooping down to try to catch them. This video shows frigate birds diving to scoop up sardines from the beach.
The first fish looks sculpted from sand but was actually a real dead fish that had been beached, coated by sand and somewhat ossified. All first 5 photos taken in a 24 hour period on the beach in front of our beach rental in La Manzanilla. As for the apple, 2 mornings before, I had written a poem about an apple on my blog, and searched for a photo in my photo file. Finally found one and posted it, then came out to the beach and discovered this apple lodged under the bottom of my beach chair. I needed a photo. Nature provided!
For Cee’s FOTD
For Cee’s FOTD
This heartiest of flowers formed many memories in my childhood, from holding it under your chin to see if it reflected or not (Was it to see if you were telling the truth? Can’t remember) to making flower chains with them, to blowing their white fluff away to scatter in all directions with the result that it was later necessary to pick hundreds of new dandelions out of the lawn! They were the one flower that was ever-present during the spring, summer and fall.
Allenda asked me to take a photo of Casa Gaviotas, where we are staying for a week. For years, I rented this lovely little house right on the beach in La Manzanilla, Mexico for two or three months a year. I always rented the bottom floor of the house and over the years got to be friends with a number of people who rented the upper level. This year my friend Brad rented the upper, I rented the lower for just one week and friends Kristine Trejo and Isidro Xilonzochitl came with us. We have been having a great time. Here is the house.The palapa with hammocks is the front porch of the house.
Daniel used to be my neighbor but now it is a boat rental agency and coffee shop. Miss Daniel who was a town institution for many many years.
Welcome to “The Numbers Game #57.” Today’s number is 178. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below. Here are my contributions to the album.
An Apple A Day
Witches use them for enchantment. Kids give them to their teachers.
Trees dangle them from tree limbs to turn passersby to reachers.
Everyone craves apples at one time in their life.
Even Adam reached for one offered by his wife.
Latchkey kids would miss them as a snack when home from school.
We’d miss them in our stocking toes if absent from our Yule.It would be a small catastrophe if apples were not able
to snuggle with bananas and peaches on the table
or for folks with bows and arrows to use cucumbers instead
of apples for their targets, balanced on the head
of some trusting assistant who surely would be pissed
if that smaller target meant that the archer missed!Wouldn’t it cause chatter? The story would take wings
It would become that ballad that everybody sings
About the gifted archer whose limits were revealed
when he struck an unplanned target which alas, has never healed!
And, alas, no catalyst has ever been suggested
to solve the riddle of just how an apple might be bested!!!
(While posting this poem, I looked for an illustration in my photo file, I finally found the photo of the cored apple I had taken in the past so I used it. Then I went out to the beach and found this apple lodged under the support of my beach chair. How it came to be there, I have no idea. I needed an apple and nature provided! So I had to post it as well.)
For The Sunday Whirl Wordle the prompt words are: enchantment latch apples chatter crave catalyst catastrophe wings gift sing miss limit
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For Cellpic Sunday
That’s my friend Christine Anfossie singing at a local beach venue. The little boys worked for hours to dig a big box in the beach, then to build three rounded chairs in it to sit in so they could observe the sardines they collected in buckets along with sea water to fill it. Their own aquarium. I asked if they were going to eat them and they said no, just watch them.
Hard to pick a favorite sunset in La Manzanilla.
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