Riviera Nayarit: flora

 

Ti plant ("Muñeca") 

 

Plumeria by the beach

 

 Fan Palm

 

 

Two stages of palm fruit

The landscaping of the place we stayed used plants that were not all native, but they were beautiful.

New Year's Day walk (3/3)

 Not all of the walk was about urban monuments or urban art. One of the delights of river walks is the edge between the built landscape and the wild. There were quite a few mallards swimming upstream.

 Between the path and the river, scrubby banks with wildflowers.

 One of my favorite flowers in the area (una malva).

 Parrots are an invasive species here, but the are just as charming as the ones in San Francisco.

 I saw quite a few cormorants--Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)--flying and swimming. This one dove several times, and always emerged upstream.

Looking back from the Stone Bridge, you can see the kind of vegetation on the banks. 

An encounter that included vigorous sniffing.

March in northern California

Tulips by the pool at Filoli.

The gardens are full of blossoming trees.

A field of daffodils.

Forsythia at Filoli.

Magnolias in Half Moon Bay.

A chilly Sunday

My Christmas cactus has a bloom!
Yesterday was cold and sunny, so I took a walk with my camera.

The roses that bloomed so late into the fall are still on the bush, and the berries are feeding the birds.


Instead of being industrious and cleaning house, I am being industrious and fooling around with pictures and YouTube videos. Ever since Blogger moved us all over to "beta" I have not been able to post YouTube videos, just links, despite messing around with settings and reading "Known Problems" posts, etc. I'll keep trying, though, because I like being able to post the video itself and not just the link.
I may follow the example of some other folks and move over to Wordpress, though, if it doesn't improve soon, because I am being forced to log in over and over to comment or even just to edit, whereas before it would remember my settings, and the
Blogger help folks never got back to me, of course.

Last night I watched AFI on SNL (too bad the sound board crashed in their second number, messing up the vocal). Davey, the lead singer, reminds me quite a bit of Bryan Ferry, and the whole androgynous glam scene back in the day, so I looked for some old Bowie (did you know there is a Goblin King action figure?)Roxy Music vids; Do the Strand!.

Filoli

On my next trip to the Bay Area, I hope to visit the Filoli Estates