March 4 - Perfect evening

 Afternoon refreshments with friends followed by a perfect evening.

 It is one thing to see photos and another to smell and hear the sounds on an evening like this.  The heavy scents of flowers carried on the humid night air.  The croak of night herons as they fly by the patio on their way from the estuary to the rocks below us and the beaches (about 20 to 30 of them in 2's and 3's).  Cicadas and other night insects creating a steady background chorus.  Bats flitting silhouetted against a blue and rose sky fading to darkness.  The chirp of geckos and the bonk of an odd fig or mango falling on an RV.   Over all of this, the never ending susurration of the surf on the shore tonight and on other nights building at times to a booming roar.

I sit in the fragrant darkness.   Listening to the sounds no one could ever sing.   The stars twinkling in the blue black vault of night.

 Buenas noches.