This past Thursday evening we got a long steady rain, it started around 8 in the evening and continued all night. It was not a hard rain, but one that was steady and continuous. Also there was lots of lighting and thunder, so the dogs were sleeping on the bed as they were scared.
The next result of this storm is that everything is very wet right now, we have a lot of rain over the past couple of weeks so the ground is very saturated resulting in lots of standing water.
So today we headed out on a long bike ride. Since most of our rides are off road we soon discovered that most of our trails were just impassible. We quickly were covered in mud and decided that it just wasn't a good day to enjoy a long ride.
Thus we returned home and decided to walk the dogs to the Rio Carman which borders our rancho and is usually dry. Along the walk we saw this interesting bird nest in the middle of this large cactus.
A little later we came upon these beautiful butterflies flying around in the pasture.
As we neared the Rio Carman, we came upon these bright yellow flowers that I have mentioned before. The flowers are so rich in color but never seem to open any further than they are shown below.
Finally we came down to the Rio and we could not believe that the Rio was still running at a fairly strong rate. As you can see below the water fall was running fairly strong even though the last rain was a couple of days ago.
An as you look south you can see that the river is running very well.
So as I write this update on Saturday afternoon, we are in the middle of another strong rain storm. It sure looks like there will be no off road bike riding for at least another couple of days.
3 comments:
Jon - I am loving your photos dude! Really great stuff - makes me homesick for Mexico!
John Calypso
Stuck, for now, in Houston, I enjoy your posts about your life in el campo de Guanajuato. The yellow flowers are of the plant called "tree tobacco" or "buena moza" in Spanish. The great little book is: "Some Common and Interesting Plants of San Miguel de Allende" by John and Anne Parker in english and Spanish. It also has a bibliography with some more interesting sounding books of Mexican plants. If you don't have it, you can get it in SMA.
Also, you will be doing a great service to the land and the people with the business you describe. Doing good by doing good.
Bill Owens
Bill,
Great recommendation on the book "Some Common and Interesting Plants of San Miguel de Allende". It took me some work to find it but we did and it has great images and write ups on the local flora. Thanks for the comment.
Jon
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