Finally, I had time to take some pictures today. The experience in Ajijic has been very different from the one in San Juan Cosala. I’ll let the pictures stand on their own and see if you can see the contrasts.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Simply the Best.” NASA is building a new Voyager spacecraft that will carry the best of modern human culture. What belongs onboard?
*A copy of the poem “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
*A recording of Townes Van Zandt’s “Snowin’ on Raton” performed by Gretchen Peters & Tom Russell
*A video of the birth of a child
*A video of children playing a nonviolent game
*A video of a sunrise and sunset
*The recipe for baking powder biscuits
*An Apple MacBook Air
*A pair of Crocs sandals
*A bottle of Bacardi Anejo Rum
*A glass jar of chocolate pudding plus a recipe for making it,
*A recipe for dark chocolate ice cream
*A book showing pictures of flowers
*The picture of a tree
*A satellite video of an entire revolution of Earth
*Pictures or videos of a representative sample of the animals on Earth
*Life-sized replicas of a human male and female and a video of their movements and speech
*A copy of the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence
*A copy of the human bill of rights
*A video of a performance of Swan Lake
*A video of a performance of break dancing (Or whatever is current. Sheesh, am I out of it!)
*A video performance of “The Voice.”
*A sealed glass jar of seeds from flowers, grass, trees, vegetables and fruits.
*A pair of Levis
*A lock of human hair
*A jar of nonpolluted air
*A jar of water
*A solar panel
*A sampler of bills and coins from several nations
*A Credit Card
*A profile from OK Cupid
*An art book of famous paintings and sculpture
*A picture of mountains
*A home video of a family interacting
*A copy of the film “You’ve Got Mail”
I could go on forever with this, so I’m just going to stop. I had lots of other things indicative of life on earth and then saw that it was supposed to reflect the “best” of modern culture, so I took out the jar of polluted air, the jar of petroleum, etc. Interested to see what others have said and to see what i’ve left out!!
I don’t know why out of the dozens of pictures I took of more exotic flowers that I decided to post this little succulent bloom. It was tiny–Much magnified here.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/07/29/flower-of-the-day-july-29-2015-daffodil/
Wish I’d gotten a picture of the cute and durable doggie toy I got you today, Morrie! 
New house record. Fifteen minutes from gift presentation to disembowelment. His job is done.
I see you’ve rearranged your room again. Moved your cage closer to the view? Wonder what the green fluffy stuff is.
Seems to be more of it over in your bed, which you’ve moved out of the cage and closer to the bathroom. Oh.
So the green fluffy stuff is your bed–or at least part of it! Why would they stuff a dog bed with green stuffing? Now, I am remembering that Diego unstuffed two dog beds and a cat bed before he finally stopped biting and tearing apart everything in sight. Okay, Morrie. That’s one!
I lied. The prompt did come in with 15 minutes to spare before I leave, but it is a prompt I already answered a year ago, so if you didn’t read it then, go HERE. I will think up a prompt of my own when I get home, or better yet, suggest one as a comment to this post. Why is it that writing about anything is easier than thinking of what to write about? You do the hard part for me, please!!! Okay, off to the second day of the second round of Camp Estrella.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Fourth Wall.” You get to spend a day inside your favorite movie. Tell us which one it is — and what happens to you while you’re there.
Tequila Redux
Since the prompt won’t be published until I’ve already had to start out for Ajijic for day 2 of Camp Estrella II, I’m sending you to one of the first blogs I ever published. It is a little poem on the dangers of tequila! Go HERE to read it. I can’t see that anyone now reading my blog read it since it was back in 2013 at the very beginning! It was written to a National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) challenge, when it seemed as though it would be impossible to write a poem a day for an entire month. Now, over 900 blogs later, it doesn’t seem so impossible.
After a hot humid day in Ajijic, I arrived home to find it had rained. This beauty had bloomed in the garden by the pathway into my house, bearing evidence to that fact. I have four or five different varieties of hibiscus and each time a new bloom comes out, it is a gift!!
Since I believe Cee is on retreat, I’m linking this to her yesterday’s challenge. You can see other floral offerings HERE.
Oops..she did post today, so to see her today’s post, go HERE.
Recycled Dream
I can see only one person presently reading my blog (Hi, Angloswiss) who read this when I posted it two years ago, so I am going to give a link to it here. It is one of 4 or 5 posts I’ve made on the subject of dreams and not the one I was looking for, but interesting to me because I don’t remember either the dream or having written this piece, so I imagine even if you read it way back then perhaps you have forgotten it, too. HERE is the link.
The one I was looking for was a precognitive dream I had where two incidents in a row were foretold. I know I’ve written about it but can’t find it on my blog or on any storage drives or my present computer, so the next time this prompt cycles around, I will write about it. For now, here is another dream you might have some interest in. Look above for the link.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).”
I believe that is a Hibiscus about to unfurl over this little boy’s left ear. He is a sweetie and unfurled a bit himself during the past week. Who could resist that smile? I couldn’t.
For more flowers, go HERE.
