This morning
we woke up to nine night blooming cirius, wild giant lily, shampoo ginger, flag ginger and the guaba tree in blossom again, sipping coffee on the deck surrounded in the flower scents watching a vertical rainbow form out of the ancient caldera. Happy weekend.

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

Big storms in this rainy season make a lot of leaves
and branches fall. The roof is designed in a spiral so that rain water spirals around the roof, into a chute that takes it to a big pot with an internal spiral, then out to the quebrada. We get more than 200 inches of rain a year.

This is how the Petaxte, which is a relative of the cacao pod, looks when cut open. There is much more fruit around the seeds. Unfortunately, unlike the fruit around regular cacao beans, the fruit of cacao which is delicious, petaxe fruit tastes lot like cantaloupe, which I loathe. ✨🤷‍♀️✨

A different type of cacao, used more for the fruit than the bean.