Spring Peace

The month of September has been relaxing, refreshing, decompressing, full of love and wonder, new discoveries and appreciation for where we are and what we've been able to do so far. We have been working some, prepping for the upcoming Internship, and relishing in the delights of spring. A few funky creatures have popped out of the forest, as well as some lovely aromatic flowers to fragrance our days...

A Tung tree flower...

This is just an itty bitty baby snake, could fit in the palm of my hand... not that I tried...

This little guaviroba flower is the best fragrance for hammock-hangers.

The translucent, trancendental grasshopper and the giant pecan...

In a nearby town are these inspiring hand-built and -sculpted ruins left from the idealist Jesuit-Guarani community built in the 1600s. It was a place for protection, communal work and living, and peace and worship. Kim took a little side trip there to see and feel...

This is one of our neighbors... a gigantic Grapia tree that locals say is at least a thousand years old. A tall, silent witness to the changes of this place. Oh, the stories it could tell, I'm sure. Would it not weep for so many lost friends, cut down for modernity and replacment by non-native pines and eucalyptus? Would it not scream in anger at the selfish acts of human greed? Misiones is a still place of wonderful forests and water, but that is quickly disappearing. This tree stands as a momunment and a reminder...