Author: doug
Brooding landscape (B&W)
End of 2019
Lovely summer year-end day in Uruguay.
Mushrooms, mushrooms
Past-prime mushroom fading back into a burned stump. The area we walk in suffered a serious fire ten years ago.
Non compost compost
My favorite gardening technique is letting things plant themselves…
These little squash plants (what kind, who knows) are growing from my “compost” (noun) for a transplanted palm that didn’t in fact compost (verb).
Meanwhile, my recent re-jiggering of my non-composting compost has resulted in another little accidental garden. (I have no idea what that big-leaf plant in the background is, but it’s obviously happy and it’s not bothering me.)
Closer view of the non-garden “garden.”
The lucky spider
The dog Lea has an exceptional gift for stepping on anything we stop to look at on our dog walks. Happily, this time she misses.
Strange clouds
A variety of strange clouds on today’s dog walk.
Roots
Outside Banco República, Atlántida
Close enough, I guess
How do you say quality control in Latin America?
¿Que?
Following the instructions, we were supposed to get the color on the right.
Christmas noise
The garbage collectors used to have to jump off the truck and retrieve each house’s trash individually — lots of running around! So at Christmas time, they made a lot of noise to attract tips. For several years, though, there has been no individual trash pickup. We carry it to a bin on the corner. But, as you can hear, the seasonal noise hasn’t stopped.