It is 7:20 AM and I’ve been in the Guadalajara Airport since 2 AM. My delayed flight leaves at 9 and I’ll spend another 7 hours cooling my heels in Dallas. All in all it will be 20 hours in airports and in the air and I will arrive 8 hours late and a day late at my destination since I’ll arrive too late at night for my sister to drive the hour and a half to the airport to collect me, and so I will need to spend a night in a hotel. Oh the glories of modern travel. Since my pickup was at 1 AM for the hour trip to the airport , I didn’t go to sleep at all last night and I have had one hour’s sleep on a couch in the VIP lounge which they gave me a pass to. Better than the hundreds of people sleeping on the floor in the ticketing area. Wonder what is up? Heavy rain all the way from San Juan to Guadalajara, so perhaps that has grounded planes.
Water Lilies in the moat at Montel Cosala Chac Lan in San juan Cosala…For Cee’s FOTD
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This hibiscus popped open yesterday right next to the pool.
For Cee’s FOTD
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Here are some other photos of us together from an earlier birthday post: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2019/07/09/happy-birthday-patti/
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CAVITY
About 85 species in North America make nests using cavities, birdhouses, gaps in structures or holes found in tree hollows, telephone poles, abandoned buildings and more.
Of the birds that use nest cavities, most woodpeckers (Picidae) including the northern flicker [Colaptes auratus] and red-naped sapsucker [Sphyrapicus nuchalis] tend to be the species that do the hard work of excavating many of the tree cavities. Fewer birds excavate their own holes in trees. But of those that do, the woodpeckers are by far the best known. The cavity using opportunists include bluebirds (Sialia), chickadees (Paridae), house sparrows, house wrens [Troglodytes aedon], nuthatches (Sitta), the bridled titmouse [Baeolophus wollweberi], violet-green swallows [Tachycineta thalassina], many parrots, and even some small owls such as the northern saw-whet owl [Aegolius acadicus]. Red-cockaded woodpeckers nest in cavities that can take years to construct in a living tree. They live in groups and will have as…
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These were definitely not taken this year as the second month into what should be the rainy season, we’ve only had one rain. Looks promising now, though. If it rains, I’ll add a current photo.
The Birthday Girl is my sister Patti, age 7. Happy Birthday, Patti, one day early!!!!
I believe this is the first time this hibiscus has bloomed since I bought it months ago. I had forgotten about it and suddenly was surprised by two blooms! I probably published a photo of it when I bought it but I believe Zoe ate the flowers and it never bloomed again. I have a tag named “Bleeding Heart Hibiscus” and just the other day, I was wondering what it was and where I had seen it. Now I know! So happy. Just the other day I was wishing I had a white hibiscus.
