Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence
As some of you know, I have another blog where I post to the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge.
For those of you interested, it’s http://www.curiositycafe.wordpress.com. A site called 61 Musings “liked” my recent post, and I went to see what they had posted. What luck, it’s a wonderful site with musings on introversion. I learned a lot, and I am definitely in an introverted state of mind at present, I call it my “hermit phase”. The site had a link to another site, with a Character Strength quiz, http://www.viame.org.
Many fellow introverts scored highest with Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence, as I did. The natural world is a constant source of inspiration and connection for me, as is art, music and writing. So here are some images from the past six weeks since I returned to La Cruz from Portland.
A broad-billed hummingbird with two baby birds in the nest
Koi at the Vallarta Botanical Gardens
Two gringos cooling off in the river at Vallarta Botanical Gardens
Four-foot long Green Iguana in a tree at the marina
Peg admiring the local “art” at Ana Banana’s Restaurant
The Happy Girls, happy because we’re in Mexico on the beach
A fisherman returning in his panga right before the full moon came up
The Full Moon from the marina Mar. 16, looking across the anchorage to Bucerias.
Tomorrow we leave for a week-long adventure to visit Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, a canyon deeper than the Grand Canyon, home to the reclusive Tarahumara Indians, two bus rides and a spectacular train ride away from La Cruz. With luck we will come back with pictures and many stories to share.