If you have never read 100 Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Soledad) by Colombian Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez (1967), you have missed a magical story that takes place in the remote village of Macondo, in the jungle of the Columbian rainforest. It is one of the best books ever written. Seriously.
I first read 100 Years of Solitude as an international student in Mexico in the seventies. It had just been translated into English. It is a tale of seven generations of the BuendÃa family who among other things, have the habit of naming their children variations of the same names. It’s enough to make your head spin trying to keep track of the various players.
Hibiscus also known here as tulipani.
Eventually I gave up trying to follow who’s who and found that it made little difference. I would never give away the ending other than to say it involves ants.
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In the jungle a battle with the ants is a battle you will loose. There’s more of them than us and they never quit. No matter how clean your house, they will scurry across the kitchen counter looking for a nibble or a bug to carry off.
Volunteer papaya tree growing out of the compost pile.
This week I was sitting on the couch and twice found an ant on my leg. I looked up to see a highway of ants coming from under the dog crate. What the…!!
Bird of paradise blooming this morning.
They show up quickly having decided that something I thought was mine is really theirs. It’s a wonder they haven’t made off with the dog! Time to get out the trusty vacuum cleaner. The best I can hope for is to discourage them. So far, it’s not working.
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