Friday, November 5, 2010

Bird sounds at Lago Atitlan


The first tortilla of the visit! RICO!

Nancy and I have walked down to the lake for me to see how things look for this year. There is plenty of damage from the storm Agatha earlier this year and then again in September during some more horribly heavy rains. I wish nature would let up a little bit on this beautiful place! However, it is surprising cleaned up and as lovely as ever.

This morning was all about getting things set up here, phone card, groceries and just looking around to see what has and has not changed. We're having some yerba Mora for dinner tonight, it was exceptionally fresh at the market this morning, also a broccoli that I bought off the back of a pickup truck, 2Q for the head which is about $.25! The bridge is all repaired (again since it was rebuilt after hurricane Stan) but the little tienda at the edge of Jucanya as you can see is dangling over the edge of where the river washed out.

I had my first delicious latte at Crossroads just in the nick of time because the shop was inundated with a large group. I beat a hasty retreat.

I've been trying to load on a video for the last 3 hours so I give up. I'll try again in the morning and make a new post. here is the video

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Good to know that you can start your day off with such a delicious latte. What about the bird sounds, other sounds? and does the day begin at sunrise? temperature? I love the names of things and how different sounding they are. Just waking up here, sun is out, casting shadows on the backs of my neighbors houses. The time change has given us all an extra hour. Had coffee and read a Courtney Love interview in the NY Times..