Snapshots from Rainy Season

The rainy season is finally upon us, and after two years of El Niño effects causing droughts here we are expected to have a normal one.  The rainy season here is called "winter" and has cool cloudy days and rainy afternoons and evenings for roughly 6 months out of the year from May to November.  This is the time that people plant, as most cannot do irrigation. Corn is "a thing" here as our students are learning and so are squash and beans and avocados, apples, peaches and plums. So here are some fun shots from the season. Enjoy.

Corn recently planted.  They plant 5 seeds together traditionally.

I love the scarecrows they put up.  This one has a plastic soccer ball for a head

Avocados! So plenitful here.  People are amazed how much we pay for avocados back home.

The tree in the distance is an avocado tree that didn't produce this year.  They have a tradition of putting a ladies' skirt (corte) around the trunk to help it do better next year. 

Corn fields in Mactzul I.  Every family plants enough for their family to have tamalitos and  tortillas and tamales for the year. 

And, of course road work at the beginning of the rains.  In this area people from different communities are assigned to road duty and serve for the year.  Several days a year required for road clearing and grating.