The little house

The mind of the palta (avocado) tree

I has always thought that trees have innate intelligence, but one of our two avocado trees is doing its best to prove me wrong. The last time it bore fruit heavily, it had so much weight on this branch that I had to put a board underneath so that it wouldn’t break. And now this.

A little skinny twig forks, one side becoming hugely thicker, then doing a 180 and growing upwards.

Really. Where did this tree go to school?

Indigone

A bustling place―if not outstanding―with a deck overlooking the beach. Prime location. Buildings on the beach side of the Rambla are very rare. And then one day this summer the thriving business became an empty shell.

No idea what happened.

A day in the life of mushrooms

What a difference a day makes, when you’re a mushroom.

The mushroom advance

Nice try, but your fence isn’t going to stop the mushrooms’ advance on your house!

Tire and foot prints

Especially after the wind has smoothed the sand, the tracks various critters leave behind fascinate us. More so because they’re typically chaotic. So it was amusing to find a straight trail in a “highway” created by a tire. I had to take the picture quickly, because Lea the Destroyer was nearby.

I can’t find the video where she killed a spider I was recording, but here’s a near miss. You get the idea.

Palo borracho and yucca

The spiky plants (no idea what they’re called) in our front yard are blooming. The tree in the background is a palo boracho, which has thorns. All this in autumn.

[UPDATE: It’s a yucca. Thanks, Syd!]

Plant symmetry – or not.

Same plant: leaves with 7, 8, and 9 ribs.

Nice sky

Hercules overhead

I was aware of four passes overhead today of the Uruguayan Air forces complete inventory of KC-130 Hercules aircraft. Mocha the dog did not approve of these unauthorized airspace intruders.

Why? Training, I suppose. Note that the first test flight of a KC-130 was in January 1960. I love that the aircraft of the Uruguayan Air Force are all models introduced over 50 years ago, one exception being the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, introduced “only” 40 years ago.