Mexico Three

Mexico is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Or maybe I would, who knows? The resort we stayed at was Nuts...Coconuts!

Ocean views, Garden view too...
The day trip to Chichen Itza was an eye opener. Have you seen Apocalypto? Great movie, and it showed what this place may have looked like in its glory days. The ball court was amazing, even the two rings were still attached. The winning captain- guess what? He lost his life!
The Mayans built a huge pyramid, a calendar, then ten years later they built this bigger one over the top of it. The first one was obsolete! I don't know who the posing chick is, but she'd of made a swell sacrifice.
Okay, they invented the zero and could do amazing calculations, but didn't know how to construct a simple Roman arch or use the wheel...
A short bike ride into a neighboring town was refreshing, and hot, and butt aching.
A boat, like the one that took us out to the reef for a snorkeling adventure. Next time I'll get an underwater camera. Maybe; I had my hands full just keeping the snorkel and mask clear.

The locals all seemed to own these bikes. That basket could carry a lot of coconuts, or iguanas.
Hmmm, these lobby flowers look like they could poke an eye out!

Mexico part Two

I can't tell you much about art, but I know what I like. There's a simple beauty in colors and lines. Much of Mexico is so run down. We only saw a fragment of life there, but could see poverty everywhere, especially some of the Mayan villages, which were in some cases no more than hollow concrete buildings with no doors or windows. But in a way, even on these sparse streets in the little towns there was color and form.

The ancients left their doodles everywhere in Chichen Itza.
A quaint fountain at the Inn at the Mayan ruins. It was an open courtyard, as many there are.
Yes, murals. Kim at Mouse Medicine would have her camera out here a lot!

One of the shell sculptures on the Catholic Church in Puerto Morelos. Should have gotten up for the service Sunday morning, but we were probably hung over and sunburned.

I don't know, do these shades go well together? Maybe, in a seaside town!
"Where the Weird are Welcome....for Awhile."

They would have kicked me out in a heartbeat.
I have no clue what this is all about, but I saw it a few times around town. Pretty cool.

Is this a waste of a picture? Geometric shapes, they're everywhere!

Hola ! We have just returned from the Riveria Maya on the Yucaton Peninsula, specifically Playa Del Carmen which is east of Cancun. Many fine things were to be seen, and tasted, here for a week. Unbelievably I am sitting here and can still feel my body being tossed around by the ocean. I would recommend heartily a vacation there, especially if you are into eating and drinking. But for now I thought I'd post a few pictures of the local fauna in and around the area.Coral pieces washed up onto the beach. Some of these pieces are as big as your outstretched hand. I saw some fine specimens the size of a big head wearing a hat. Ha. They wouldn't fit in my carry on, dammit. Are these considered animal life? Well, I suppose they were once alive...

Howdy little urchin. This tiny guy rolled up the beach by the rocky area. Almost no shells on this beach...I wondered if it was because of the huge coral reefs.
The first time I saw one I jumped. Cripes! Iguanas that are maybe 2 or 3 feet long? They come out of their holes to sun on the rocks. We saw these everywhere, from our location to Puerto Morelos and even into the interior. Excellent beasts! I hear they taste like chicken.
Mexicans cleaning up the beach.

Tourists messing up the beach. Well, I'm sure after the yoga they'd be stretched out somewhere with a dirty monkey or a blue Hawaii getting red as a lobster
In the little towns and Mayan villages were dogs that wandered freely, but they mostly lounged in the shade.
The frigate birds floated above our hotel catching the thermals. It was very windy where we stayed, and the surf was crazy. Up the road at Pto Morelos the water was calm and the beach was smooth and white.
The reefs depend on the Mangrove swamp and the swamp depends on the reef. So the natives are trying very hard to work with hotels, etc, in keeping the marshlands healthy. Well, you know how that goes.
These birds are brownish and black and everywhere. If you eat outside in one of hotel cafes, don't leave your food unattended or they will swoop in and make off with it. We learned this lesson early and laughed aloud watching them have their way throughout the week.

Perhaps later I'll post some flora pictures, hasta manana.

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#4; of the hellspawn of Pestilence.

Dangled and fell
out from Chaotic Wellsprings
like a disproportionate funnel
the maladroit colossus
spurred by X
raged in Pestilence.
~
Marsha incognito
for she fled the kingdom in fear
ere the birth of Torquemala
son of a wickedly dispatched Pasty,
nearly tread upon by the creature
a malapropism of enormous breadth
vile rotting and well-favoured,
tho only such as refuse may be described.
He premeditated a close to the reign of X
that vile persona non grata
whose usurpfulness would come to an end.
~
X in a tizzy
adorned with many a tassel
and carried by a host of the foremost
of Pestilence
had bested Miffla, sullen wife
of Amoritorius
and she beget him, X,
a vile witch
loathsome yet winsome
in the art of deceit;
she who would inherit
and ply her wares to the
mired plethora of Pestilence.
~
Now daughter of X
unnamed at birth
and veiled in a drapery cumbersome
to shroud the guilt of her progenitor,
She clutched the strings of the behemoth
that which crawled
from the frothing depth of Demise,
It what had no name
like the witch who then summoned
to ravage in disarray and matted blood fur
her hated father's Pestilent kingdom.

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