Gayle Brennan Spencer – sending random thoughts to and from South Austin
I used to buy boxes of Christmas cards. Good intentions. Always unsent.
But I think this should count. It even includes our holiday self-portrait, all sombreroed-up to shade us from the afternoon sun, still intense during this season of the winter solstice.
Feliz Navidad to ya’ll, and to ya’ll a good noche.
Promise. This is it. The final photographic scraps from our month in Lisbon.
Which reminded me that jacaranda trees should be added to the prior list of things I’d like to see more of in San Antonio. Lady Bird advises no, but their lavender blooms are so beautiful in Lisbon, as in San Miguel de Allende. Plant them right next to those luscious orange tulipan trees from Oaxaca. Or maybe with a wild olive tree or two in between.
Tchau.
Tulipan Africano. Towering trees covered with magnificent orange blossoms visible from far away and showering the sidewalks below them are the most striking plants in the midst of the urban landscape of Oaxaca City.
Yes, more Oaxaca leftovers.
These range from cacti and agave of the Ethnobotanical Garden of Oaxaca adjacent to the monastery at Santo Domingo to a pot atop the patio of our apartment.
Postcards from Barton Springs 