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Maguari stork

Maguari stork (Ciconia maguari) and ducks

Its presence upsets the teros (Southern lapwing – Vanellus chilensis), but it clearly has no attention of going anywhere. They were hassling it when I arrived, and still an hour later.

Eucalyptus in spring

Cacti

Mescaline cactus and wall (my back yard).

The muddy river

Coming home from the dog walk, we arrive at the water to see it’s brown, with a thin strip of blue at the horizon.

Two kilometers further east the blue water is much closer.

The brown is silty water from the Rio de la Plata. Some days the water is chocolate brown, and some days it is ocean green. But it is never really blue, as it is further east.

Burned

After the fires: it will be interesting to revisit this view in a few months. Our guess is that the tree front right will not survive, but that most of the others – because they still have some green needles, even if they don’t look healthy in the photo – might be OK.

Say what?

Going to buy fish, I noticed a truck, down the stairs, blocking my way.

Turned out to be someone delivering refrigeration equipment. And yes, it is 4-wheel drive. The driver was curious to know if I was German or French. When I lived in Germany, people sometimes wondered if I was French. When in France, I was sometime asked if I was German. Not bad for a ‘Murkan 😉