Wednesday, July 11, 2007

The area ...

These Ngobes live near us. Most of the ones that we've met seem like nice, honest folk. The guy on the far right, who is proudly holding the baby, is Victor, who helped Paul build some of our rock walls. Some, not all, as he became ill - he initially thought someone had cast an evil spell on him, but his main employer insisted that he go to the doctor and he was diagnosed with diabetes.
One of our orchids started blooming ... and a cute little green hummingbird loved it - as if typical, though, the bird escaped getting his photo taken, so we only captured the flower:

And this beauty is a local flower: