What I Missed on Culebra Yesterday

Yesterday, showered, dressed and geared up to attend the AWC auction in the afternoon and the (thank you, Bill Kunke, for getting the information to me!) Victor 'Cucita' Felix Munet celebration, I went from feeling great to feeling like...erm, staying home. Some belly bug that lasted the day and night. Could we rewind, please?? I feel great now! Oh, we can't. Sigh.

I doubt not that a great time was had by all at both events. Here is a link to Bill's site, with some photos from last night. For some photos from the auction, you can go here!

Across the street from me, a party was going on, so I got a little taste of music and laughter. For the most part, it was yard walkabouts, in the strange weather day of bright sun, heavy cloud, deep smell and almost taste of rain, but no rain.

 Strangest weather moment, still and so pre-rain senses sharp, but no rain

 She Who Owns Every Possible Perching/Watching Spot (especially temporary ones)

 A banana quit's nest in an old orchid holder - she flew out right as I clicked. Good Mama.

 Bi-colored bougainvillea 

 The very best year so far for my 10 years ago planted mango tree!

Technically, each of those red bits are baby mangoes. We'll see what happens.

Sunday morning. So far, two horses have galloped though my yard twice. I hear salsa music on the wind and wavelets on the little shore outside my window. A far off rooster crowing. And a lot of quiet. Bliss. Culebra bliss.

Have an aurally sensual Sunday. Do something that notes the subliminal.

Culebra Sunday

Another Sunday rolls in...

Ah me! I am one

who spends his little

breakfast

Morning-glory gazing

Matsuo Basho                                              

Have a glory staring Sunday! Do something sunusual.

Overstimulated on Culebra?

No, no it's just me who feels oh joy overstimulated, not the whole island. I think it is living a life where going out two nights in a row approaches a social whirl.. Add in high gladness at seeing an old friend. With an imperfect but mostly ever so good personal life, contrasting vividly to the world news. Or maybe it's just Sunday morning and I'm missing the New York Times Sunday home delivery, but that's about all. Life is good. Have I mentioned that?

Good morning, Culebra!

Chatting via facebook with one of the smarter young people I know (younger than me, anyway), combined with things that interest me coming along in emails, it seems so very obvious that a mindset of simplicity (not of the self flagellating hair shirts and gruel sort) could solve so many of our social, governmental and world wide issues. 

Yes, that sounds simplistic, doesn't it? I mean, how much of the world lives in involuntary simplicity already, MJ? I know. But it seems to me the troubles come piling when, as in Bhutan, the central philosophy and actual written tenet of their country, GNH, or Gross National Happiness, that kept them considered a model for Shangri-la, changed swiftly after the introduction of television in 1999. Debate forever about enforced innocence if you like, but there is something cherishable about considering happiness first without the trappings that more 'civilized' Western culture deems so necessary. And when I read about Bhutan today, scarcely two decades later, it is painful, and from a sociological viewpoint, stunning. 

I think this couple have it right, making ideals reality

Yes, random Sunday morning musings on only one cup of tea. There better be a Sunday paper delivery this morning, I NEED those crosswords! 

Have a saturated Sunday! Do something swimmingly. 

# 9 Sunday

Nine reasons I love to get up in the morning on Culebra...have a peaceful, glad Sunday!

Yard 'shrooms

Shhh, two baby mangoes are holding on

Disturbing the Mercury

Pelican on the bow series



 Happy faces


Cake for breakfast (for K)