Enjoying the afternoon with my mom at, THE BUDGET INN, Hot Springs national Park.

I went to visit my mom the other day. We enjoyed watching the prstitutes and drag-queens.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. Unknown

Mexico part three

A look down the street from our balcony in Juchitán.
A few hours west along the coast, the bus brought us to Pochutla. Puerto Angel and Zipolite are only accessible by taxi or pick-up from Pochutla.

In Puerto Angel we had the good fortune of meeting Elisear and Tocho.

I bought Jesus and icecream cone in Puerto Angel.

Holey stone

Looking for stones is great fun when you're at the lake. Rivers are even better. Even though our little piece of land is just about nothing but rocks, I seem to bring some home from everywhere I go.

Calm water

Lone Oak at Housley Point, Lake Ouachita.

Seashore in a bowl

A bowl of sea shells
wet with imagination,
makes dreams of salt spray.

Persimmon

The Persimmons are starting to look ripe, but don't be taken in by appearances. they have at least a few more weeks to go! I wouldn't recommend eating a persimmon before a hard frost!

Fun with the Zylophone

Ayer, Alan y yo fuimos a visitar las chicas en Hot Springs. Nos llevaron a la cas de Bethany, donde gocé el hacer de música con el zylophone.

Watch out wild ipomeas! Jack Frost will soon be nippining at your nose!

The unpopular Osage Orange

The Osage Orange is tree indigenous to the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. It was food for the mastadons, and at one time, it's range spread as far north as Ottawa. Because Native Americans used it's orange wood for bows, French settlers first called it Bois d' Arc. Today, "bodark" is the tree's most common name. Before the invention of barbed wire fencing, bodark was grows for thick fence/hedge rows. It is thorny enough to keep animals in--or predators out. It remained a commodity for fence posts, but fell into disuse when most folks started using metal stakes. Spinners use osage orange to dye wool with, yielding yellows to reddish orange. I've heard that the fruit of the tree repels roaches, but have had no confirmation that it works.