El Patio

Here's some fotos of our beloved patio. This is essentially why we rented this place, despite other parts of the house that are challenging. This is what most of the windows in our house look out upon and where everyone spends some part of the day, but no one more than Vasco....

the patio has a floral canopy comprised of several bugambillas and this vine that I just call trumpet vine

Thalia in the hammock. She & I have to call dibs on it (Eric does not do hammocks)

I don't know what this is but Vasco likes eating it and then he throws it up again half an hour later...

lots of what we vaguely call agaves...

It's not very easy to get the two of these mascotas (pets) posing in a foto...

Here's V-kitty on his own

One of the bugambillas (this is the Spanish spelling, I can't do the French spelling. Spanish is better anyway!!) that makes up the canopy that shades about half the patio

closer up on one of the "inflorescences" of the bugambillas (although I will note that the colored bits you see here are modified bracts rather than petals, actualy flowers are small and rather inconspicuous)

lots of succulents! it is fairly dry here after all. We are supposed to be in the wet season right now but it hasn't rained since the day we arrived.

I like the color and pattern the fallen bugambilla bracts make as they fall on the patio floor.