This is the road I don’t walk on when it’s windy. For some reason.
Speaking of falling trees
Author: doug
Cayó.
April 2023
November 2024
2:30 Friday afternoon, no particular wind, no cars, no pedestrians, and boom–down goes a leaning pine tree. Obviously, this could have been serious.
And here’s the crazy part. Ten meters up the trunk, the rings indicate this part of the tree is less than thirty years old. Some of the earlier rings are one inch wide.
I’ve gone by this tree almost every day for fifteen years, and only noticed it in the last few because of its tilt. Strange to think that in our early days here, it would have been less than half its present diameter.
No play today…
…for a couple of reasons.
Actually yesterday—incredibly dreary all day. Contrast with today: brisk and blindingly bright.
Well, duh.
I’ve settled in for not being a connoisseur. Cheap red wine here turns out to be very drinkable (white much more dubious) and if you ask me how it is, I won’t be saying the nose is decadent but not overdone with plum liqueur, Christmas cake, cedar, Chinese spices, licorice, tea leaves, tar and hot stones….pretty acidity and a long finish. Rather chewy and needs time.
Ain‘t it funny how the experts never mention the taste any non-drinker will identify most strongly: alcohol?
But I digress. I’ve never wondered about the name of the brand, Faisan. Probably a family name, right?
Only recently did I actually look at the label.
Guess what faisan means in Spanish?
It’s fun to watch the birds…
…eating the remains of the last few paltas (avocados) at such close range.
But there is that other thing.
Work of the wind…
…and one strand of grass.
Little blue egg
Found on the dog walk among pine trees. Though we have robins (zorzal colorado) at home, we have never seen one out here. What other type of bird lays blue eggs?
The moon…
…always amazes me, as in this photo from my camera, because it looks so much larger with the naked eye. But then I read that phone cameras tend to be wide-angle, the 35 mm equivalent of 28-50 mm. Ain’t going to be seeing much of the moon with that.
This afternoon
