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My Day So Far

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My day started with a visit from Ellie, who came to do her weekly cleaning.  While I made us coffee, she washed windows, and just as I sat down with my cup and my computer, she held up this little fellow.   He was so tiny.  Also, unfortunately, he was not alive.  I hope by natural causes and not by Ellie’s hand!

Next on my agenda was my Saturday writing group.  There was a huge group this time–23 by my count.  We’re planning a reading for next week.  Here are two shots of the group.

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Next was a party at a new friend’s house on the mountain directly above the bull ring where the rodeo will be held for the next three days.  I met Jan when she came to my house to see my work at the end of the day right after the art walk. She brought pictures of her own work which is fabulous.  She, too, uses found objects.  As you can see by these photos, both her home and her work is unique.  We are planning a materials-gathering expedition together.

(Please click on first photo to view enlarged gallery.)

This is Jan and the next two images are just two of her many wonderful found art assemblages.
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Even cowboys get the urge to text now and then. Fortunately for me, because he stopped to do so and I got to photograph his horse’s intricate hairdo. Cowboys don’t text and drive!!
As you can see, even Elvis put in an appearance.
I love the guy lofting his cowboy hat in the background. This is also the restaurant where the man sat in the parking lot and commented on my photographing the flowers.(The story is given in my previous posting.)
“And the goat-footed balloon man whistled far and wee.” (e.e. cummings)

 

 

 

 

 

La Playa–Thursday Doors, Feb 5, 2016

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La Playa–Thursday Doors

This is the street entrance of a beach palapa restaurant a few doors down from the house I rent in La Manzanilla each year.

 

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La Manzanilla Doors: Thursday Doors, Jan 28, 2016

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La Manzanilla Doors

For such a small town, La Manzanilla has a disproportionate number of little grocery stores.  Dalia’s and Lidia’s are two of the best stocked and certainly the most colorful.  Watch for other doors from La Manz on upcoming weeks.

 

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Laguna Sunset

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                                                            Laguna Sunset

This was the sunset two nights ago that greeted us as we were nearing the end of our river birding trip on the laguna and river in the bird sanctuary that runs between La Manzanilla and Boca de Iguana.  The two young men who operated the oars on our boat pointed out hornbills, egrets, herons, cormorants, crocodiles, giant iguanas and a plethora of other birds as we quietly moved through the mangroves.  At one point, we had to lean down flat in the boat to go under an extremely low bridge…but those pictures will follow.  The point of this posting is the incredible sunset which was actually even more virant than these pictures depict.  As we approached the beach again from the laguna, the sky was a vibrant scarlet. These pictures capture part of the ever changing spectacle.

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Cerulean––Color Your World , Jan 25, 2016

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Cerulean

IMG_2008You can’t get more cerulean than this sky, albeit obscured a bit by feathery clouds. I snapped this picture today in La Manzanilla, Mexico, where I am staying for two months. I was out looking for flowers to snap for Cee’s Flower a Day Challenge and got this bonus shot of the sky.  Then I decided while I was at it, I should get some pictures for Thursday Doors, so I wandered up three two blocks and back on the other side of the street, snapping pictures of front doors.  I love what blogging gives me license to do!

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Life’s a Beach

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Here are a few pictures of what I’ve been up to since I arrived at the beach on Saturday.
IMG_1573 The porch was rebuilt on Casa Gaviotas, but instead of bamboo and wood, it is now concrete and stone.  The palapa roof seems to have survived the hurricane.  The little palapa structure to the right of the orange building is Casa Gaviotas–my home away from home.

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First night, a little party/jam session at Carol’s house:

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Guitar, harmonica and flute.  Not a bad combination.  We mouthed the words we weren’t sure about but came on strong during the choruses!!IMG_1506 (1)Loved this painting by Carol on the wall of the kitchen.  The butterly is so realistic.
IMG_1504Um, more realistic than I’d initally realized, I surmised as the moth flew to a new location on the painting.

IMG_1498This little fella high up on the wall added his own chorus to the music.

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El Gato from next door comes every morning for a nibble that isn’t fish.  Usually he depends on the gifts of kind fishermen who share their catch with him. Quite a life for a cat.   Here he keeps an eye on both fishermen, ready for breakfast to be tossed his way.

DSC09647 (1)We inherited him as a kitten five years ago when we were here when the French lady who got him from the shelter left.  I meant to take him home with me but when the time came, he refused to come with me, preferring his free and easy beach life and fresh fish every day. so Daniel next door agreed to look after him.  Now I see him each time I come to the beach and he slips back into being a little bit my cat–especially around meal time.  I call him Bobino.  Handsome cat, and he shows the beach dogs who is boss!

Both nights, sunset tequila ceremony at Daniel’s–a nightly occurrence, year round:

IMG_1555IMG_1538Version 2Both mornings, I walked the beach, but not many offerings so far:
IMG_1559IMG_1580IMG_1561I’ve been swimming every day, took walks both mornings, wrote a bit and cooked up a pot of chili and another pot of spaghetti sauce. I like cooking in big lots and then not cooking for the rest of the week.  I took some chili over to Daniel next door, then had a visit from my friend Michael.  Yesterday Linda visited.

3 o’clock.  Time for a swim.  Another lazy day in paradise.  No snow so far.
I did the below prompt over a year ago.  You can see it on the WordPress site.  So, I’m instead telling a bit about beach life today!!!
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/cant-stand-me/

Summer

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Summer

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La Manzanilla after Hurricane Patricia

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                                           imgo Yesterday, the center of Hurricane Patricia made landfall about 20 miles northwest of La Manzanilla, Jalisco, Mexico, where I usually vacation and for the past four years have  spent two months a year. In this picture taken five years ago, the palapa to the right is the ocean-facing porch of my home away from home in La Manzanilla, on the Pacific coast, before Patricia. That is my friend okcforgottenman, blogger extraordinaire, making a “V” for “Very Pale.”

For La Manzanilla during Hurricane Patricia go HERE to see a  4-second video directed at my palapa rental from the back as the winds finally knock the webcam to the ground.

For La Manzanilla after Hurricane Patricia go HERE to see  a video made today. It looks like the house I rent is still standing on the street side (at 2:14 into the video), but I haven’t seen it from the ocean side. Thanks, okcforgottenman, for sending it to me.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Depth

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Depth

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Serenity

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Serenity

For this photo challenge, publish an image that conveys serenity.

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