By Terry Sovil from the August 2016 Edition Who could ever imagine a butterfly that flies 2,500 to 3,000 miles / 4,000 to 4,800 km? Well there is one. The MONARCH BUTTERFLY migrates from the central United States and Canada to Mexico. This is quite a long trip when you consider that it flies about […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the April 2016 Edition Forever, it seems; orchids have been a joy to me, the delicacy of the flowers, the transparency and waxy feel of the petals and the glorious colours. Oh those glorious colours. We were lucky, several years ago, in being able to go to an Orchid Nursery […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the March 2016 Edition Birds, bees, mammals, trees; at some point we want to know more about them. On my phone and tablet, I have a number of apps that provide such information. The National Audubon Society has a number of apps that deal with specific topics; Audubon Trees, Audubon Insects and Spiders, Audubon Wildflowers, […]
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By Suzanne A. Marshall from the March 2016 Edition As the fallout from the severe El Niño weather patterns continue to ravage the globe, most of us look forward to the return of something we call ‘normal’. Given that the scientific age of the earth is estimated to be between 4.5 and 4.6 billion years old, I find it humorous to […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the May 2015 Edition When our daughter and son-in-law came from Canada to visit us in March with their three boys, the first stop on the way to our Mexican home after leaving the airport was a roadside fruit stand north of El Naranjo. We purchased some yaka, watermelon, papaya and starfruit, […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the March 2015 Edition World population has doubled since 1970, exceeding 7 billion. How will we feed everyone? Despite high prices, demand for seafood is growing. USA consumption tops 5 billion pounds (2,267,961,850 kg) annually. Less than 10% of that comes from USA waters according to the NOAA; 90% comes from the […]
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By Suzanne A. Marshall from the March 2015 Edition This is our eighth winter along the shores of Playa Azul (or Playa Salahua) in Manzanillo and I haven’t tired of sitting on our ocean view terrace. Somehow it’s always different though consistently the same. I know that probably doesn’t make sense but the changes are usually subtle […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the December 2014 Edition Asparagus Fern, Protasparagus densiflorus ‘Sprengeri’ Family: Strelitziaceae (Known by no other names) What we commonly call Asparagus Fern is, in fact, neither not an asparagus as we think of them (though in the same family) and not a fern! If the truth be known, they are actually members of […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the November 2014 Edition Coccothrinax crinita Family: Arecaceae Subfamily: Coryphoideae (Also known as Cuban Old Man Palm, Hairy Old Man, Mat Palm, Old Man Thatch or Thatch Palm) As too many of we ‘more senior than most’ men have learned, at some point hair begins to sprout from physical locales other than those we […]
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By Suzanne A. Marshall from the October 2014 Edition When our famous Canadian singer Anne Murray sings our ‘Namesake song’ it isn’t hard to see why so many people call many Canadians ‘Snowbirds.’ “Spread your tiny wings and fly away And take the snow back with you Where it came from on that day.” Our Mexican friends […]
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