My backyard

January in Oaxaca, cold clear nights, warm days with azure skies.... what's not to like?  I always enjoy walking the streets in the city, but I love my afternoon walks around my house.  I am so lucky to have vistas like this... the archeological site of Aztompa.

The trees in the foreground, sorry I forget the name, however, the leaves have a wonderful fragrance and when rubbed on the face, the forehead and around the eyes, relieve stress.  It works!  There is almost no dew in the morning, the air is that dry, so the plants and the countryside have entered a dormant period and the palette changes from greens to browns.

Of course, next month the annual explosions of purple of the jacarandas will begin and they will carry us into the rains, although it will be months.  Still, we all adapt.

What a country..