Camino Domingo Bello en Mayo

 Our church had very meaningful services on Saturday morning outside, so that we had the first Sunday in May open.    

Open Air church in Curahuasi

We have been bragging how beautiful our walks in Peru have been, including how the beautiful wildflowers are everywhere.  So with your permission, here is our Sunday walk.  We walked up one of the local mountain ‘caminos’ and were attempting to reach a pueblo (village) up in the mountains.  We were stopped by an area that was blocked by a landslide, but there was a narrow path over the landslide.  We made it over the first section, but when the second section of slippery gravel scared me enough, we put a stop to the day’s walk.     “Strait is the path, and narrow the way….but few there be that find it.”  I think there is a sermon there, but please enjoy our walk with us….

We're not sure what this flower is, but it attracts hummingbirds like a magnet.  You always find them fighting over these.

We call these wild zinnias..reminds us of home.

These flowers are beautiful, but do not go close to the dead seed heads--you will be covered with hundreds of seeds on your clothes.

Here is a field of anise.  Curahuasi is the anise capital of the world, and we believe it.  The fields are so beautiful when they are blooming.

More roadside flowers

A corn field that ends abruptly at cliff's edge...

Lunch in the shade of eucalyptus trees, and a little rest...

These are the flowers of agave.  They put up impressive stalks 30-40 feet high when they flower and they attract hordes of hummingbirds as well. In the US, we call these types of plants 'Century Plants'

This is Mt. Padreyoc, 18,904 feet high, and impressively visible from our apartment.

   

Here on our way down the mountain, are the anise fields scattered out in the valley below....