El Palacio del Rey del Maíz en la Mazorca Asado en un Palillo

 

Boca de Tomatlan

Off-Leash

I made a few purchases yesterday while the womenfolk were indisposed. Most of this stuff will be glued to Tom’s helmet, maybe.



Magnetic! Kinetic! Frog, armadillo, cowboy on burro, caterpillar, tortoise





Kinetic! Grasshopper, octopus, grasshopper, wasp.

Other stuff I bought, at the hardware store.

Butter

My Flamboyant Laundrette

Boca

Gin Rummy Under a Palapa. Photo by Cathy Mosbrucker

 

Bruce, Mary, Cathy.  Photo by some nice lady from Seattle

 

Skarch sparkling mineral water.  Because what could be more fortuitous than pouring gas into Bruce?

 

View from our table

 

Palapa Frame

 

Palapa construction with cute puppy. Photo by Cathy Mosbrucker

 

Shark Thing

 

Rio Tomatlan

Crazy Blue Cantilevered Moon-Viewing Pavilion

Sketch made after first sighting


On the road from Puerto Vallarta to Mismaloya and Boca. Photos and video were taken out the window of the bus.






Moon viewing pavilion footage (rare)




Puerto Vallarta to Boca de Tomatlan with Pavilion




Here it is.

Puzzling Evidence

How did this avocado get from the plate on the counter to the floor way over near the door?  Who ate it?

• Geckos?
• Some very organized ants?
• We suspect a raton.

3/30/12 Update.  Cathy saw the critter last night.  She thought it might be an aardvark.  When pressed for details, she produced this chilling rendition of the beast:

Louie is presented to give a sense of scale.  You can see more of Louie here.



Further evidence after the wine-cork incident.  Photo by Cathy Mosbrucker.

Cathy pitches in:

According to a thread on Trip Advisor, what I saw wasn't a rat but an
opossum. According to Wikipedia, opossums are known in Mexico as tlacuache
or tlaquatzin, which sounds something like the couple at the botanical
garden was trying to tell us.  Here's a link
http://www.ref.pemex.com/octanaje/octa29/29tlacuach.htm

Collage?

No, it’s supposed to look off-kilter, I guess.

Palm

Palm, near dusk. Nice structure.

Too Easy

The new paper that I got is full of shrubbery of some kind.  Just tracing the inclusions makes a great little composition.

A Stroll Down the Island

I like this tree.

 

 

 

Despite being in a city, we’re also in a jungle.

A Trip to the Supermercado

We took Fred Flintstone’s car.

 

Free Hep-C with Each Purchase.

 

I’m pretty sure this says ‘Floor and Ouch’. Not the best marketing for shoes that I’ve ever encountered.

Juicer

Baffling machine.  I like ours better.

Mismaloya

We took the bus.  Just getting to the bus was an adventure.  Check out this knife sharpener dude.  Could that wheel be more out-of-true?  I'm bringing my pocket-knife to him tomorrow.



 



Shack

That’s one cheeky pelican…

…but the chihuahua is cheekier.

Alejandro brought us everything we needed.

Bus ride home.  I had sand stuck in places that I didn’t know I even had places.

Sexy Luchador Collage

Desde 1940

Outside the Piñata Factory

 

Fisherman and Shade