First frost of the year. Very pronounced in the neighbor’s front yard, but the camera thought it more interesting to focus on the branches of the closer bush. Oh yeah, and something about having left it in macro mode the last time I took a picture.
Tag: weather
Trees drying – drought
Evidence of the drought in Uruguay showing up in trees I see from our upstairs patio.
I’ll stay on shore
Today. High winds. Atlántida, Uruguay.
Sun rings
End of 2019
Lovely summer year-end day in Uruguay.
Dreary
Dreary, rainy today. All day. But plants are happy. They needed the water.
Sun and rain
Back yard today: sun shining, afternoon rain.
Santa Rosa 2018
Apparently the Santa Rosa storms have arrived. It’s dreary, and windy, and rainy. So perhaps appropriate to post photos I took a few days ago, on a beach walk, when I thought the weather was just awful, and rightly predicted that virtually no one else would be on the beach. (Hint: no blue sky today!)
This is the access board walkway I have shown many times in the past. Because of a “valley” walkway through the dunes to the beach, “they” built a board walkway. But “they” didn’t realize that, free of erosion, the dune would naturally build back to its original height, maybe 1.5 meters higher than the highest point of the walkway, making it the second choice for crossing the dunes. But it gets “better:” to the left (from this perspective), the new “valley” has now become so massive that it’s actually stripped away dunes from where they grew over the walkway. Great work by whoever “they” are (who BTW also budgeted zero for maintenance).
In the next town over (five blocks away), I am heartened to see that I am not the only one disgusted with the fishermen who leave behind their trash.
Using the formal (su instead of tu), graffiti implores one to take [away] your trash. And then, Mister Fish[erman] (a little confusing to me, since it seems to say pescada, whereas “fish” in this sense (literally caught) is pescado, care for the river. I have explained – but with over 1,000 posts, don’t easily find – that the Uruguayans consider this thing that others might reasonably call an ocean, having no flow nor other side, a river. In fact, an estuary. Whatever.
Anyway, I find the formal and polite nature of this message amusing. Perhaps explains why I found some of my stickers apparently scratched off trash containers, as if they were too norteamericano blunt.
But hey, they got the job done – sort of. More on that later.
Requisite autumn photo
Lovely, sunny, crisp autumn day. I walked into town to pick up a $3,000 Western Union transfer (cost: $6) so that now we officially have enough money in the bank here to pay for our new car, which should arrive in the next few days. From where, I have no idea. We ended up with the Meriva in 2009 because it was available: with other makes and models we might have preferred, we were told to “come back in January when the new cars arrive.” At $1,000+ per month for a nothing-special rental car, we did not like that idea.
A day of rain
Saturday’s weather was lovely. Monday’s weather was lovely. But Sunday – !
As you look at the flooded road in front of our house, consider that it has 40 cm (~16″) deep ditches on either side.