Last Days of the Season in San Carlos

 Mothers' Day dawned gorgeous and pleasant.  I woke up to these beautiful breakfast pizzas grilled by Jimbo and phone calls from the kids.  I miss them all so much!

I was getting itchy to get out of the house.  Mother's Day was the 2nd month "anniversary" of our self isolation.  We really aren't allowed to both be in the car at the same time nor go to the beaches but we did anyway and thought we'd deal with the consequences.

I drove, just in case I might be in danger of losing my skills. 🤣 (Never, kids, don't get any ideas). We drove out through fish camp and out to the desert where we didn't see a soul-no cops there!

This is in the car so no mask but as soon as I got out I put it on.
This is my first time of looking halfway decent:  earrings, a fine
hat and a dress!

Everyone, if there at the fish camp, was inside or in their boats.  The fishermen
live in these sweet shacks (maybe not so sweet if you had to live there.
But they have a certain flair about them.

This is right above the fish camp, overlooking the esterito and the cafe.
Beyond is the Bahia and the route out to sea.

This is a dirt road where we often go with the Plein Air painting group.  The
rocks are just magnificent and there were all kinds of flowering bushes and
trees, notably, the ocotillo.

Next up, I just had to get to the ocean. We looked at various places which looked likely that we would be seen and decided it wasn't a good idea.  We thought of going out to La Manga Tres but we
hadn't had the radiators replaced yet (we have now) and didn't want to get stuck out there.  So, we kind of hid our car behind a bush- you can see by the bushes in this picture, how effective that was!

One of our favorite beaches, Piedras Pintas or the Zorro Beach because
Zorro was filmed here.  It was glorious!  All tidy with crashing waves.

We walked this part for about 15 minutes before a very nice
Estado Policia couple drove up and so politely asked us
to go home after a few minutes more. A little too dangerous
for a dip.

Back home for our first take-out dinner from La Trattoria. Pasta, salad
and my favorite flan for dessert.  Nice to eat someone else's food for a change
and we are still alive and well!

We had one other couple over one night for sunset and drinks with
separate seating areas 6 ft or more apart.  Just makes us kind of nervous.
Need haircuts and exercise!

Two of my favorite people from my book club.  Their
husbands work at the Maquilas (US factories in Guaymas.)
This night the three of us snuck into Enrique's sister's (and
Cheryl and Bill's rental next year) home by the sea-
we probably should let him know!!
We probably could get away with swimming here but
the stairs down to the water are really pretty scary!

Totally amuses me to watch these guys climb the ladder,

jump off, wrap their belt around the tree and chop off

limbs with their machetes, all the time laughing and

 having the time of their lives swingin in the breeze.

Apparently roaches live in the dead stuff and it is healthy

for the tree to grow out new limbs that grow nicely

downward.  We have had roaches and I do not love them!

This you might recognize as the eastern side of the beach that was below us
when we lived on Almejas.  We can walk from here but decided this night to
just sit and let Boo roam and explore.  There are stairs down to the beach
but its a bit of a jump at the bottom.  We will do this again when the
beaches open and we will wear our sneakers and jump like youngsters!.

The view back towards our old house.  The white one
to the left of the empty lot was ours-looks so tiny now!

 Claudia and Phil invited us over for a Memorial Day BBQ and it was lovely.  What a great location they have.  Funny thing:  they are going to Boulder in mid June for the remainder of the summer!
They usually go to Chatham, Mass. but too far a drive in this pandemic and they have a daughter in Denver.  It will be great to show them our town.

The Grillmeisters
Don't you love the shells between the tiles?!

Our yellow plumeria

Close up of our pink plumeria
Both have the nicest scent!  We are so glad to be here when they bloom as we've always
missed them before.

The bougainvillea below

One last art group with the three of us who are here!  Diane, Laura and I.

Such a cute picture of Joe and the new puppies at the ranch.

Sweet Diane
Morning cocktails and pastel drawings

Me, Laura and the new puppies.  She also has baby chicks
and a new colt out here.  Very hopeful signs:  life goes
on!

Great terrace for social distancing.  Had neighbors on both
sides over for goodbye cocktails for Ole and Susan.  They
are going back to their home in Show Low, AZ.

And another sign that life goes on
Our grand nephew, Jeff, graduated from high school and we
all watched on Zoom.  Most of us with tears in our eyes.

His formal picture

The informal picture with Julie, his Mom, my niece
It was a thrill to zoom together and text each other through the whole thing.
I miss family!  Hopefully next year we can plan a get together-life,
although slowed down right now, is moving pretty darned fast when you are
in your seventies.  How did we get here?

Boo loves the cool tile in this house, inside and out.  And he
is watching too-very seriously.

We sent this picture to Jeff and family.
I dressed for the occasion. Jim, not so much!