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Weekly Observations
Jul 10 - Jul 16, 2005

Well I think I'll quit giving the day-by-day wheather description -- I think you get the picture. Most days now are sunny and warm (80°s) and nights are cool (low 60°s) with thunderstorms four or five nights per week. If a tropical storm or hurricane hits the West coast of Mexico, or a really big hurricane hits the East coast near Veracruz, we may get a day or two of light rain during the daytime. Otherwise it only rains at night or in the twilight hours of dusk and dawn.

Now that I've learned to recognize tillandsia plants we see them everywhere. In Ajijic along 16 de Septiembre street, near Juan Manuel street there are tillandsias growing on the power lines! We have also seen a few in various trees along other streets in Ajijic.

The fruit on the camachin trees (which I mentioned a few weeks back) are beginning to ripen. I tried one and it tastes like a regular fig, though just the size of a small cherry. Isabel tells me they sell them in the marcado this time of year, though I've never seen anyone gathering them locally like they do the guamuchiles.

We were in the Primavera mountains this weekend, and saw a flower there that I'm unable to identify so far ... not even sure if it is an orchid or in the lilly family. It has spear-shaped, stemless leaves and a bulb, with flowers on a stalk about a foot high (all of which make me think it is a lilly) and a beautiful white flower with whispy bracts (which make me think of orchids). The image at right is the best I have -- I never actually disected a flower to count the parts; figured such a showy flower would be easy to find online, but there I was wrong (again!)