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New Year Ritual

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New Year Ritual

After you toast the new year with confetti, wine and shout,
assemble broom and sponge and mop to wash the old year out.
Let it know it’s finished. Make it abrogate that power
officially surrendered when clocks struck the midnight hour.

The most practical among you might find this act absurd,
but please suspend your disbelief and take me at my word.
What’s acted out in metaphor declares a second time
what was announced at midnight by the bell tower’s final chime.

 

Prompt words today are broom, sponge, absurd, abrogate and finish.

Tree of Flowers: FOTD Jan 2, 2022

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Every year they create a new incredible Christmas tree at the Nueva Posada, one of the oldest restaurants in Ajijic. They are always fabulous. This year’s, made out of hand-fashioned flowers, was no exception. I went to their delicious New Year’s Day brunch with four friends to dine in their back garden that fronts on the lake. A better choice for me than a crowded indoors New Years Eve celebration. I imagine this tree will stay up through January  6 to celebrate Tres Reyes (Three Kings Day.) In Mexico, it is often the true celebration for families–even bigger than Christmas.

HERE is a link to 2019’s tree and information on the man who constructs them each year.

For Cee’s FOTD

A (Not So) Silent Night in Mexico

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Please click on photos to read captions and enlarge pictures.

Silent night. Holy night.
All is calm.
All
is
bright.

With the exception of the last photo, these were all photos taken on New Year’s Eve at my house. What started out to be a silent night turned rather loud once the fireworks started and every dog in town started to bark, but at least did serve to illustrate the brightness in the song.

The last photo of Santiago tucked into bed with the stuffed dog I got him in the States
was taken by his dad a few days ago. He is Yolanda’s grandson. I’ve been staying away because
of the corona virus, but I have held him twice–both times right after I had a covid test so I knew
it was safe.

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Unfinished Business: Last on the Card for 2021

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For the Last on the Card Prompt

Duets

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CBWC: Two Things or the number 2

Animal Pot Pourri: A Photo a Week Challenge

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Click on photos to enlarge.

For A Photo a Week Challenge: Animals

 

Yuletide Miracle # 1, Dec 30. 2021

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Miracle #1, Dec 30, 2021: Diego slipped into the house and did not eat these
four raw cookies that I set out on the counter on their way to the oven.

(I didn’t start counting miracles until today thus the rather late #1. Next year, someone remind me to do this from the day after Thanksgiving through Tres Reyes on Jan. 6. (Not every day. Just when and if miracles occur.)

Shattered Illusions: FOTD, Dec 30, 2021

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In 35 years of growing bougainvillea, I have never seen the central flower bloomed out like this!

Here is how they usually look:

But, oops. I suddenly had a brainstorm and went outside to check again, and guess what? When I moved the bougainvillea branch aside, this is what I discovered:

That bloom was actually the bloom of this tiny succulent peeking through the bougainvillea. Another of life’s illusions shattered!

 

For Cee’s FOTD

Through the Window

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Before the rain
Rainy day
From the plane window

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