Unas Fotos

A photo taken through the window of the bus, on the road to our home in the highlands of Jalisco. This one is worth clicking on to see it big...


A photo of the rains finally coming. They're nearly invisible in this photo, but you can see droopier trees and, if you blow the picture up big enough, the sheets of water streaking down at a windy angle onto the tin roof below...


It's a big deal for the rains to finally arrive in Los Altos! This rainfall was only a short one, about twenty minutes or so, but we welcomed the drops as the relief from the oven-baking heat that is the usual state of our weather...


And finally, a shot from indoors, under the rain-shielding roof. This is our little menagerie, which first grew with every new place we visited - see the brightly-painted giraffe and chupacabra from Oaxaca and the clay jaguar from Chiapas - and now grows through creative contributions from our friends, leading to the curious situation of home run king Miguel Cabrera standing tall over his kingdom of Neyland Stadium, with Mexican creatures in tow. Um...