Brilliant yellow flowers

Trying to see if I can capture the brilliance of these flowers on an overcast day without going crazy with Pixlr filters. Result: not really.

Flowers and shadows

Flowers in the afternoon sun, on the dog walk.

Tree-framed clouds

Just the sky over Atlántida this afternoon.

Circular saw dissection

Cutting up 2×6″ jungle hardwood proved too much for the used German circular saw I bought twelve years ago for USD 40 (I’ve gotten my money’s worth ;-). I thought it needed new brushes, but no, I fried the armature. Quite interesting taking it apart; some simple and some very tricky. I’m still working on the worm gear assembly. Why does it have one?

The repair shop sold me a Skil that they refurbished. 1400 watts versus 1200 on this one; 5,700 RPM versus 4,500. The thing is a BEAST!

Tero babies

I spent an hour and a half in the park yesterday watering thirsty young trees. And yet today I see for the first time that the teros have two babies – checking out the main path that crosses from one side to the other. We stopped here, before mama and papa decided to make a fuss!

Dead possum-how?

A dead comedreja (possum) in an area on the side of the house fenced against dog entrance, except that Bandido the Shi Tzuh gets in through an opening I left for the cat (now long gone). The compost bins are on the other side of the fence, so what this one was doing here is a mystery, as is, once again, how it died. I don’t think the little dog would have done it in.

Curious van decoration

A technically brilliant, aesthetically inexplicable design on a Swiss van in the Tienda Inglesa parking lot.

Hmmm…

Ball in tree

Game over for the little kids, I guess.

Dog walk oddities

But of course: half a mattress appears in the middle of nowhere.

At one corner, an empty bottle, an action figure, and bicycle reflectors. I had been thinking about buying bicycle reflectors to help me back into our driveway at night, so I took those.

Later on in the walk, this. All a little…off.