River dolphins are difficult to get a good photo of, but this one in Loreto, Peru kept leaving the most beautiful trails of mist (which are scientifically referred to as blow and are a mixture of air, mucus & water). To me, this one actually looks like a dolphin.

Young Baniwa girl with monkey. Camarão, Rio Ayari. Alto Rio Negro, Brazil. A few days ago.

The following photos are of yucca and yuca, two distinct plants. Their spelling is consistently confused in major media, academic papers and restaurant menus so I wrote this poem so you remember which is which. open.substack.com/pub/newworld...

The things you find while gardening.

So there’s a trend for small restaurants in Colombia to get design ideas from Pinterest, which means a lot of flashing lights and signs to make social media posts in front of. Sadly, it doesn’t always turn out as they might hope:

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It’s going to be amazing eating all of that GMO corn and soy that’s grown for animal feed and ethanol!

Dusk in Cerro Azul, Peru.

Where castanhas (Brazil nuts) come from. Acre, #Brazil

I stopped by a small restaurant for coffee and a snack in the Ecuadorian Amazon today and this photo was on the TV the entire time and now I’ll never forget it:

Arrived in #Ecuador:

The ice cream tricksters of #Istanbul. How fun would it be to have this as your teenage job?

A few food and market snaps from around Istanbul this morning.

I went to the National Museum of the American Indian in #DC the other day and they were setting up for a dinner in the atrium and man did it look cool.

I saw this tree on São Paulo sidewalk. The fruits grow along the trunk and branches like jabuticaba. Never saw one before. It’s apparently called a Himalayan fig tree. #biodiversity

Form this morning on the docks of Ver-O-Peso, Belém do Pará #Brazil