Before we met up with my aunt and her pretty plants, we visited a friend of my dad's where I got to play with his grandson. He was about two years old and he led me to his small play area just behind his house where he showed me his toys. Keep in mind this is Mexico and almost every single family has their own set of farm animals, whether it be pigs, chickens, sheep, etc. This family seemed to only have a few chickens, but because the little boy's play area was outside of the house and the chickens were loose, they would sometimes invade the small area and leave behind pleasant little gifts. Thankfully those gifts were solely feathers, which the little boy would pick up and hand to me so I could see them. I know the rules said to not touch what we were photographing but how could I say 'no' to a two year old? I only managed to take one picture with the feather before the little boy asked for it back and then ran off to play with a ball.
In the pictures shown above are walls containing large amounts of moss. My grandmother's house is very open, but there is a wall right in the middle of it to separate her living space and my uncle's. The brick wall is the wall that divides the house into two, and the cement wall is part of my grandmother's living space as well as where my family stays each year when we visit. Because the brick wall was recently built, when it rains the sun does not directly hit either of the walls so moss tends to grow. I tried to take a 'selfie' with the moss but I'm not an excellent 'selfie taker' so I had to include more pictures of the moss-filled walls to do them justice.
This is just a snapshot of my scavenger hunt adventures in Mexico. I can't wait to put all of my ecology selfies together to demonstrate how big our world is, even if sometimes we don't take notice as much as we should.
