today, to the flowers/zoo. saw a fully-endowed and extremely-excited monkey making it with another species of monkey. a guide came by with a group of 20 and i stayed to see what a guide might say in spanish about ¨socializing¨ monkeys. only that they can swim, apparently. i must be more immature than other tourists.










i´ve discovered the reasoning of the dragonflies... this cities is built on rivers. streams of vegetation and floating islands run across the top of wide shallow rivers.

downtown, a pigeon with its eyes pecked out hunkered near the crevice in concrete. i thought he might be ignored, but families walked, stopped, pointed, one little child stooping to pick it up. The guard looked concerned, confused, and I wondered what he would do if I made the right move, walked over and snapped the creature´s neck.