That kid waving at me in the distance when he saw me coming back from my walk today is the protagonist of this story. Or I don't know if it's the ladybug. 😁 The fact is that, for days, I wanted to wake up this wonderful Challenge Not Challenge from its lethargy. I'm talking about #spreadthevibes. You can read about it here.
Let's see how one thing leads to another, and this is something creative that came up, just now I saw it while downloading the photos I took during my short outing and so I write it down for all of you.
Let's start with the fact that I haven't left the house for almost 11 days. I was on ‘absolute’ rest. And I say ‘almost’ because sometimes I went for a walk around my neighbourhood, but today was the longest one. I went as far as the bridge on the highway leading to Pinar del Río, the westernmost province of Cuba. 😀 I didn't count the steps but it's not far off... 🤐
After wandering around Hive and reading interesting posts that even led me to do some research, I felt a huge urge to drink a hibiscus tea almost at the end of that virtual tour... but I only delayed it a little. I wanted to go first to visit the Carolinas tree or Clavelinas, who knows anymore 🤣, that I saw in bloom a few days ago. On the other hand, I have to try the manual mode of my camera. It has to keep fighting by my side.
Of course, I made my tea when I returned and it was the protagonist of this story himself who handed me the flowers. Note in the first photo above that there are hibiscus flowers there, also known as cayenne.
As you can see the moderator of this community has already spread some vibes, I made myself some tea. They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, so.... Joke. 🤣 My mother and grandma, when my sister and I had a cough, used to put some hibiscus flowers in the infusion they made us to soothe us. I know that this tea can be consumed and is very good. Maybe soon with this tea theme something else will appear... I was thinking of participating in that other challenge from the Collectors corner. But now let's concentrate on what we are dealing with here.
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I don't want to continue to ramble on, let me not make the story so long. I went to see the tree.
We'll talk about this in another post if you let me... there are many curious facts about this tree that has so many names that I don't even know what it's called anymore.
Pseudobombax ellipticum 🤓
What happened was, as I told you at the beginning, on my return from that walk where my friend Panasonic and I talked a lot, my neighbour, that little boy, came out to meet me to show me something he had made out of a piece of paper. Things that reminded me of my childhood. When he saw me walking a little further from my house in search of more challenges for the Lumix, he accompanied me with his incessant chatter. 😑 Hahaha... and there I stopped in a place where there shouldn't be a rubbish dump, but people are undisciplined and unconscious.
And there happened what happened while I was filming that mess and my camera was still struggling in its manual mode. ;)
But it has me... ;)
I was thinking of making some postcards with my photos.
This dump gave me a few images.
Children are like sponges, and they learn very quickly. A few days ago I was talking to my neighbours and friends about how annoying it makes me feel to see children dancing to reggaeton or singing one of those horrible songs... with lyrics that are... I have no words to express what they are.
There are so many beautiful children's songs... for example this one. Here are three versions performed by different singer-songwriters. The author of this song is her, Teresita Fernández.
So, that's it. It's an all-inclusive post as lady hibiscus was the one who also reminded me of ladybug.... or ladybug reminded me of hibiscus tea.... ay I don't know, it's a mess, but this post has music, pictures, videos and good vibes.
😀 Oooopss... I also got inspiration from these posts...
@ylich/smetana-blini-engesp-5fp
@go-kyo/actifit-go-kyo-20250404t144842059z
... to make my pancakes which I accompanied with tea.
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Hopefully someone will be inspired by something here and we'll keep spreading the vibes.
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