Trip up the Mountain

Mauda climbed a tree to bring me some flowers that smell kind of like lilacs to put in my house

View from a little plot on the side of the mountain

sugarcane



Cut sugarcane or caña, ready to be eaten. You suck and chew on the fibers to release the sweet juice and then spit them out.

Sugarcane, which it a common treat for kids here around Christmas time

Green papayas, I´m looking forward to ripe ones, though

These are called bananos cuadrado (square?), which are best eaten green and fried

The beginnings of a bunch of bananas

Another group of baby bananas, they are about the size of my finger

I´m loving having a camera again, I must say. This past Sunday I went up the nearby mountain with some kids to look for papaya that´s coming into season. They were still really green, but we brought one back to make a candy they call Piñonato. There´s quite a few families in my community that live at the base of the mountain but have small plots with various crops like coffee, beans, and different fruits further up. They loaded me down with a bunch a free food to take home: squash, green bananas, sugarcane, jocote. Generosity is a very common trait here, one I´m trying to become better at. Many times I´m what they call pinche, which basicly means cheap/ stingy. That´s all for now, I´m just trying to be better at posting pictures when I have the time. Adios.

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