Here is my first #walkwithme, I was first introduced to this hashtag through @phoenixwren, and the hashtag was founded by @lyndsaybowes. I'd love to see your day!
Walk with me Today!
This is the first thing I see as I step out my door, man's faithful companions eagerly awaiting their morning petting. You can see that our inner gardens are always around to greet the eye, and I cannot help but take another photo.
Morning flowers help me start the day with joy in my heart!
As we step into the street I am bombarded by leading lines, fresh in my mind from my weekly photography lesson with @dmcamera. I line up the shot and it seems like the clouds play along as well.
I turn back and @ecoinstant is lining up a shot on her imaginary camera. She's using the imaginary one, I imagine, because she did not bring her real one with her this morning. She also snaps a (imaginary) photo with great leading lines.
We head to the Plaza de Mercado for breakfast, a special treat that we do no do every day but we really enjoy today to spend the morning together eating a delicious complete breakfast. Our first course is fish soup, followed by Huevos Pericos, scrambled eggs with tomato and onion, rice, an Arepa and a patacón. Very filling!
The plaza has a long line of tiny restaurantes, each run by a group of women or a family. Líbano runs on clientelism, and we always seem to eat Donde Fabis.
From the second floor of restaurants, we can look down into the principal plaza, getting a glimpse at the large area filled with agricultural products being sold in town.
Off to work
I split up with @ecoinstante as she heads to get some keys made and run other errands and I head off to the office. I do many things and today is no different!
One thing that I do today is meet with an engineer who is explaining to me the process of creating map layers in ArcGIS. In this picture, we are seeing the GIS representation of a reforestation project that we worked on between 2012 and 2013. Every dot on that map represents a tree that survived (now 4 or 5 years old) and is now at least two inches in diameter at chest height.
After a long day managing several simultaneous projects in the office, I get to come home to the urban garden, and look around for something to do! It looks like there are both papayas and oranges to pick!
I also manage to find some beans! These will go great in a soup or a stew.
Thanks for spending the day with me! I like this format and hashtag and will keep it in mind when I have an interesting day, which I do every so often ;p