The Weekly Photo challenge is Summer Lovin’
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.” ~Celia Thaxter
Living in the tropics there is an eternal summer where….
The fruits are always ripe and I can make delicious banana bread and guacamole.
A fruit is always ready to be picked.
Parrots chatter and humming birds hum year round.
Flowers always bloom and monkeys always howl.
You can go to the tranquil beaches everyday of the year.
And only leave footprints in the sand as a gentle reminder that you’ve been here.
And finally, flip-flops are worn for every occasion, every day of the eternal summer.
Rewired and Retired in Nicaragua 
Stunning summer shots! So colorful 🙂 And I agree it would be fabulous to see the posts listing reversed so everyone had a chance to be fist in line!
Thanks, Connie. Who do we ask about the Weekly Photo Challenge? I wonder if I can go to a forum and ask a question there?
When they changed the formatting of the weekly photo challenges, several of us left comments directly on the challenge post about changes that would make it easier to navigate. Some of the changes suggested were implemented, so maybe we can just post there? I personally would also love to see the links in the comments change to orange when already viewed, just like the gallery of links change to orange after clicked/viewed. I’d start there 🙂
Oh my gosh! These pics sum up summer! I love the fruits!
Thanks, Learning. The fruits were yummy, too. 🙂
🙂 Oh, wow! I love the green parrot inbetween all the green! 🙂
Happy, it was very difficult trying to get a photo of a parrot. They blend into the leaves almost perfectly.
Savouring your tropical abundance Debbie!! A wonderful gallery.
Thanks, Madhu.
Lucky you 🙂 Lovely shots beautifully assembled and captured. Well done!
Tina, such a lovely comment. Thanks.
Someone asked about what to do with so many bananas…ha, I’d like to have that “problem.” Have you acquired a taste for cooked, green bananas? They always came with any plate of cooked food in the Caribbean. I never cared for the green bananas, though. I did like the other “provisions”: cooked yam, plantain, etc.
Of course, I am envious of all those eternal summer things: fruit, birds, blooms, beach, palm trees. But I really had to chuckle about your last picture: flip flops and rubberboots. I guess the rubberboots are for walking thru high grass and carrying the machete to cut a path and any snake that might be in the way?
I enjoyed your photos! Especially the one of the hammock. It looked so inviting. Nice.
great shots of your eternal summertime
Living in Ecuador along the coast, do you miss the changing seasons? At least when you want a colder reprieve, you can head to Cuenca or Quito. Just curious.
They just sing Summer! I don’t suppose you know what Winter is? 🙂 🙂
Oh yes! I remember winter, but I don’t miss it…EVER! 🙂
Especially in tropical regions, summer brings its own sweet fruits and flowers and birds and animals galore. Your photos capture the perfect essence of summer. Very nicely captured and described.
Thanks so much. Yes! All of my photos have a ‘summer’ quality.
🙂 🙂
Agreed. I do appreciate the newer blog theme that has the boxes to click for visiting posts. I especially like the way the color changes to keep track of where I’ve been. Admittedly, though, I still get overwhelmed.
Definitely a tropical scene, Debbie. You and Ron have a piece of paradise.
Well, honestly Lynne, I only posted the pretty pictures of life in an eternal summer. I could have posted lots of sweat stains. lol
See? I knew you are always “cream of the crop” with your posts!! What a lovely feeling your photos and words create for life in the tropics! The banana tree photo is amazing. Bananas look so different here… in neat rows on the grocery store table. 😦 I would prefer your way of getting them. 🙂
You are so kind! 🙂 The banana stocks are really heavy. We have to cut the entire banana plant down to get the stock with over 100 bananas on the stock. But, that’s what we have been told to do because the banana plant will only produce one stock of bananas, then it dies.
Ho, ho! And I thought the number of zucchini my plants produce can be mind-boggling. What do you do with 100 bananas? (That sounds like the title for a children’s book!)
I’m ready to head down for a visit…but first we’ll have our Wyoming trip in a week or so. Get my bed ready! 🙂 Lovely photos.
janet
Janet…all I have to do is wash the sheets. 🙂
Lovely living in the place of eternal summer!
Thanks, Nicole. It’s avocado season. I have an abundance of them. I wish the mangoes would stop falling. They’ve been falling since January. I’m getting post traumatic stress from the mangoes falling on the tin roof.
Ahhh avocado season sounds like heaven! Mmmmmm. Why do the mangoes keep falling?
I wish you would wait to post when you are ready. It’s disappointing to view an empty space. This reminds me of when I was teaching and the kids would all cry out when someone cut in line… “No cuts!”
I write this comment with very friendly intent. Your photos are cream of the crop… and worth seeing no matter where you end up in line 🙂 ❤
I know, and I’m sorry. 😦 But, I’ve been trying an experiment because I can’t figure out why people ‘like’ a blank page. I used to do this in the comment section because my internet was soooo slow, it would take me ages to load my photos. Now, I don’t have that excuse. Forgive me? Honestly, I waited all day to post, but there is no scheduled time for the Weekly Photo challenges. I’m just curious to see if there is a difference in the number of comments depending where we are in the ‘line’. Call it an experiment. I’ll stop now that I can compile statistics. jeje
That’s an interesting experiment! I wonder if the site would perform better if newest posts appeared first. How would everyone having an opportunity to be “first in line” affect exposure for receiving comments? Now you have me wondering.
That’s a great suggestion. I would really like to see the newer posts go first. I try to visit all of the Weekly Photo challenges and leave comments on some, but when there are over 500 posts, some of them get lost in the mass of posts.