Making Circles

This is one of my new favorite fruits… The skin is hard like a shell, bread-like on the inside, with strange tentacles. The edible part looks like fish or frog eggs, is slightly tangy and sweet- delicious!
I had to film this to show you how strange this thing is!

opening the Granadilla from Jessica Singerman on Vimeo.

Happy New Year- After getting to bed at 2am, I woke at 6 this morning to find a strange taught sensation on the left side of my upper lip. Looks like I fell victim to a mosquito again, this time the little jerk got me on the lip, and I look like I have Botox gone really wrong. Other than that, it is good to be at Rancho Margot. My good buddy Drea and I have been exploring since we’ve been here…
On our first afternoon here, we hiked to the Mirador, the lookout point over the valley.

This is the ranch seen from above.

Yesterday, we hiked to a small waterfall

and met some friends along the way
this scary-looking guy

and this little one sitting in the middle of the path

We saved his life and moved him off to the side.

Later while walking in the neighboring village, we saw some really cool looking plants and mushrooms. The ones that caught my eye were all the same crazy reddish-orange color…

and my favorite was this sprouting seed broken in half

There were some lovely cows

and we got a chance to go into the work area and chat with some local guys while they worked

Drea even got to help milk a cow

And we found this huge leaf with “fingers”

In the evening, there were plans to ride up to the Mirador for some fireworks. Drea and I rode in a tractor trailer up the hill, and before we got to the top, we saw that the SUVs following got stuck in the deep mud, so we had to turn around and head back to the ranch… She and I got to sit on the back of the tractor on the way down, and we sang at the top of our lungs in the pitch black all the way home. (the driver of the tractor had just a head lamp to see the way)

There was dancing and fireworks back at the ranch till late into the night… It was a great new year’s eve!