Weekly Observations
Aug 7 - Aug 13, 2005
We went around to the far side of the lake this week, into Michoacan,
and see that the Mistletoe we describe and illustrated last week is
very common all around the lake. While it seems to prefer guamuchil
trees, we did see some in other trees.
The farmers have a wide variety of crops in the fields,
and are harvesting tomatoes now. Like the wild vegetation, farm crops
grow rapidly in the rainy season, with the fine sunny days and rainy
nights providing a perfect environment for vegetable crops. We saw
plenty of workers out in the fields trying to keep down the weeds that
would also thrive if given a chance.
The lake has risen slightly with the rainy season, but is
still nowhere near its high point from last year. Still, that high point
wasn't reached until about October, so we have a while yet. A large part
of the autumnal influx came from reservoirs upstream on the Lerma, which
were filled beyond capacity last year -- haven't heard yet how they are
doing this year, but they probably are not so full since this rainy
season got off to a slow start.
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