Tropical diary, started and stopped
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We fall asleep heavily to the ringing of the frogs. We wake blearily to the insisting scratchy squabbling of the bananaquit. The frogs are little treefrogs with a loud, nearly musical mating call that falls somewhere between our familiar spring peepers and the alarm from a reversing truck. In their thousands they reverberate and blend. The bananaquit are tiny yellow and black birds, songbirds that evolution has pushed into the hummingbird niche, feeding on the year-round abundance of flower nectar.
What i really like in the tropics, is to move slowly, or not at all, and notice that I'm surrounded by scurrying life. I realize that for some people, the phrase "teeming with lizards" doesn't inspire comfort or glee.
We fall asleep heavily to the ringing of the frogs. We wake blearily to the insisting scratchy squabbling of the bananaquit. The frogs are little treefrogs with a loud, nearly musical mating call that falls somewhere between our familiar spring peepers and the alarm from a reversing truck. In their thousands they reverberate and blend. The bananaquit are tiny yellow and black birds, songbirds that evolution has pushed into the hummingbird niche, feeding on the year-round abundance of flower nectar.
What i really like in the tropics, is to move slowly, or not at all, and notice that I'm surrounded by scurrying life. I realize that for some people, the phrase "teeming with lizards" doesn't inspire comfort or glee.
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Date: 2008-01-22 03:15 am (UTC)After we'd been dating about 7 months, Mike took me on a trip to the British Virgin Islands. We were staying at a hotel on St. Thomas where a breakfast buffet was served in an "outdoor room." There were walls, floor, and ceiling, but the open windows were so huge that we were practically outside.
One morning, I reached for a muffin on the buffet, only to find a largish gecko perched on it, prompting me to exclaim "There are lizards everywhere! I love this place!"
Mike later commented that he'd never dated anyone who would follow that first sentence with the second one.