The city of Tequila

A Day at the Market

It seems everything in Ajijic is so colorful and bright. These were taken at the Wednesday market. The blonde is Becky, from St. Louis and visiting my neighbor. She's a great shopper so we've been enjoying each other. LOL

Thoughts and Scenes from Ajijic, Mexico

I’m settling in now…to this other life. Once again a change of seemingly major proportions.

As I sit at my desk…computer, pens, paper before me…I look out to a lush garden area. Burnt orange/yellow walls, shades of green everywhere, flowers yellow, red, pink, purple, lush tall ferns. The yellow wall has hand-painted tall sunflowers decorating one side, a large ceramic sun on the other side. A large two-tiered water-fountain ringed with ceramic pots filled with red, white and yellow flowers, entice birds to flit in and out.

Against the wall where I sit looking out large windows, is my favorite room…a patio screened in from the garden. The room is small but colorful and bright. Yellow walls--purple, reds, blues in the cushions and wall paintings. And best of all, in a slight alcove in the side wall, a three-foot painted rooster, bright red, white, green and yellow feathers, smoking a cigar with one leg up holding a wine glass. My kind of guy!!!

The maid is here today, working in another room, but she has the radio on a local station and Mexican music and news in Spanish reminds me – as if this scene wouldn’t – that I’m no longer in Kansas, Dorothy.