Last Pics From El Tuito

2015 Retreat group just before leaving

Art and Pedrito at pozole party

Pam making beautiful food for us at Casa Tejedora

We didn't suffer eating at Mario's

Gabriel Canales from Guadalajara and Jean Pierre at Mario's

We eat lunch at Mario's Patio Restaurant each day

Entry way to Rancho Primavera

Mango tree tops at Rancho Primavera

Joanie and Pam said it felt like an early morning coctail party

                                                          Chadilla, our lovely provider

Beginning of the morning at the milk drinking fest

Cacique at the Papaya

Golden-cheeked woodpecker working on the papaya

Two golden-cheeked woodpeckers going for a hole in a growing papaya at Primavera

Chayo and much loved  Yadin, her son we've know since he was a baby

Chayo, Yael and Jean Pierre the morning we left El Tuito

Life is moving on at the usual off and on and pretty fast pace in Oaxaca. Yesterday was the big market in Llano park. Tomorrow a group of about 14 of us is taking a van to an outlying village that holds a big "soup" kind of festival. Our trip to it is being organized by a French Canadian couple who love to cook here at the hotel and cooked a lot here last year. I'll be back in a day or two about how that whole excursion transpires. But first I'd like to post some of my last pics from El Tuito and Rancho Primavera. The pictures of the birds with the papaya at Rancho Primavera are substandard and taken through a closed window but I think they're worth seeing. I couldn't stop watching them.

One event I didn't really elaborate on was the early morning (6:30 am) trip just before the end of our stay, out to a dairy farm where Pedrito had arranged for JP and Yael's group to enjoy an early morning drink straight from the cow. Pedrito and his wife, working in semi-darkness at the back of their pickup, gave us each a plastic glass with grated dark chocolate and organic cane sugar alcohol in the bottom of the glass. Then each glass was handed to the man milking the cow, which, if I remember correctly,  was named Cadilla. Each of us was asked to state how much fresh hot milk we'd like and the appropriate "squeezing"  took place. A little trepidation was displayed here and there until everyone took the first drink. Simply put, It was incredibly delicious. No doubt it helped that the drink was warm and the morning was cold.

I'm also adding a few more pics from the bird refuge at Rancho Primavera, etc.  Hope you enjoy.