San Marcos Day Parade

One of the highlights of San Marcos Feria, is the San Marcos Day parade, held each year on April 25th. This year's theme was 'Puppets and Marionettes'.

As you can see even "The Witch" made an appearance. (some of you will know who I mean)

Toto Update

Toto has been with us for 3 weeks now and as you can see she's making herself at home.

The vet gave her a clean bill of health and estimated that she is 8 months old.

Toto's a quiet dog, though she does put on her tough-dog bark when another dog walks past our apartment on the street below.

She likes to run and when she really puts on speed she looks like a rabbit - this is due in part to her big ears and lack of tail.

She's due to have her rabies shot in a couple of weeks and that's all we'll need to bring her back home with us.

Look out Withrow Park, here comes Toto!

Jacaranda-landia

Jacaranda trees are native to
México, South and Central America, and
the Caribbean. They're also found in Africa,
India, Australia, and the U.S.

The flowers are a vibrant blue-purple colour.
Here in Aguas they started to bloom in early March.
Their blooms will disappear by the end of April leaving behind a humble leafy green tree.















Check out this mix of jacaranda, bouganvillea
and one other unknown variety with dark red blossoms.




























Jacaranda in the background, bouganvillea
in the foreground at Jardin San Marcos.







































The entire main square, Plaza Patria, is surrounded by Jacaranda trees.


























A view of one of the jacaranda trees in Jardin del Encino from our roof top.