On this quiet beach, where not much goes on except the rhythmic crashing of the surf, brown pelicans have captured my attention. They come out in droves at sunrise, largely vanish at around noon and might reappear a couple of hours before the sun sets.With their huge beaks with a pouch underneath, tiny beady eyes, …
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And so, on to the beach
To people hunkered down in snowstorms and subzero weather up north, hearing someone living in ideally temperate San Miguel complain about the weather must sound like insufferable whining. Oh shut up! What do you know about cold or winter misery?Home for the next two weeks.Except memories are short and feelings about the weather are relative. …
A week at the beach, without Gladys
We had taken her on our yearly one-week stay at the beach only twice but already it had become a family tradition. Of an undeterminate age, except old; or breed, other than a street mutt, the ever-chunkier Gladys had learned to jump excitedly on the back seat of the car, do a few tight turns …
A very quiet week at the beach
Calling a week away from home a "vacation" is redundant when you're retired and your life has no fixed schedule to begin with. So we avoid the word and call our vacation-like outings "trips."Last week we were on one of our trips, this one to Barra de Potosí, a beautiful beach located in a cove …
El Rancho Santa Clara 