Showing posts with label moringa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moringa. Show all posts

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Bring on 2013

Our resident stingless bees keep busy in the moringa.

 




























They've had plenty of company. 
A squirrel cuckoo (Kip Cho in Maya).













hummingbird (Dzunum) 






























hooded oriole (Yuyum)      

















An odd shot: moringa, bee and grackle.

As of New Year's eve, Miles Monroe has been with us 9 years!
Miles and Eve on a recent walk.

















Ernie joined us in December of 2008.
He has mellowed a bit since then.

















Linda and newbie Hazel are always full of enthusiasm.













Tito, Hazel, Henry ...and Miles.

















Hazel and some of theTribe.

















The last Saturday of 2012:
Tito, Linda, Henry, Reggie and Hazel.

Friday, December 14, 2012

beta site

Countdown to the apocalypse.













Hazel 's bum leg (from a break) is much stronger.  
She and Linda are inseparable.

















Linda has finally lured Hazel into the water.  
She won't swim yet, but she'll wade.














She likes to run with the bigger girls too.

















She's learned that it's sometimes wiser to stand still.
When Lucy and Lily speed past.













When she finds herself between Shirley, Zoot and a butterfly.
 

Tito stands aside for no one!

Tito runs along the property we've begun renting. 
We intend to turn it into a dog rehab/exercise area (and eventually spay/neuter clinic).  
It's a bit inland, near our house and on our main walking trail.













It was a shrimp farm; the existing building is odd and in extreme disrepair.  It's flanked by 2 large concrete pads with hangar type frames. There are concrete pools, at least one of which we're going to use as a swimming pool for dogs with hip problems. 
Lots of work to be done!

 

Otto has recovered from tendon surgery and can go on walks again!
Blue, Otto and Linda


















A few random cute pairings:
Eve and Henry
 
Alice and Osita
   
Monkey and Blue

Thursday, August 16, 2012

the longest month

August comes to the Yucatan on a million pairs of fly wings.
Relentless with its discomforts, it is the longest month.

Linda would spend all day on the beach if we'd let her.















Amber keeps her eyes on the ball.


















Success.


















Zoot is obsessed with chasing the shadows of butterflies.














Our neem tree is lovely this season;
Linda, Pete and Zoot enjoy its shade.



















A little shade is better than none.
Zoot and Pete under one of the smaller moringa trees.



















Color-coordinated Reggie, Xmul and Zoot.


















I tried to take a picture of Xmul sleeping, but she noticed.














Xmul and Mo, ready to jump for a toy.














Xmul wins!















Pete and Xmul play.


















Daisy and Mega enjoy a cloudy day.


Monday, September 8, 2008

dog days of summer

This is a strange and beautiful place. A peninsula on a peninsula. Gulf on one side and salt marshes on the other. The landscape and light make it seem unearthly at times. We've been walking in the woods more than on the beach, one of the benefits of a dry rainy season.
Archie races his reflection:


Blue and Bette have room to run. A few good rains and this will be under water:


Lucy, Frijolita and Oscar come when they're called (those are salt piles in the background):


pink water:


Bizarre scenery and high temperatures aside, walks have been wonderfully uneventful.

ye old scenic shot of Chester:


Archie having a romp:


They aren't quite big enough for walks yet but they have mastered the stairs.
Tuesday and Gowron wrestle:

pretty girls:


pretty tolerant:


Maldi, the kitten, is doing great. It may look as though she is being harassed here but in fact she is taunting the dogs.
If she keeps this up I'm sure one of the dogs will learn to climb the ladder:


Maldi also likes the chase me up a tree game! Here she stands her ground to Greta:


I love that tree! Moringa is amazing stuff, high in vitamins, good for nursing moms and the seeds can purify water!
It's loaded with seed pods right now (known as drumsticks).
They look like big green beans:


It is usually covered in fragrant blooms and full of birds, bees and moths.
These moths are huge! I had to take pictures of them to figure out what they were.
They sound like hummingbirds but they look like flying crayfish:


Some evenings, dozens of them swarm the moringa tree:


The hummingbirds love the blooms too. There are almost always a few feeding.
Lots of these little green guys:



and a few of these slightly larger, more aggressive, red hummingbirds:

I can't end a dog blog with a picture of a bird so..
beautiful Lucy with the moringa tree in the background: