The fall is firmly established on this part of the Maine coast. About half the leaves are on the ground. The colors this year were OK but not spectacular. That seems to require luck, the wind, the sunshine, in those critical weeks of change. A noreaster removed lots of leaves from the trees last week. I got out a couple of times with the camera to document whats left.
My friend in Quito, the woman I will be renting from, is seeing the dentist today. I am trying to give spiritual support from 3500 miles away. When it comes to dental pain I can commisurate. Speaking of Dentistry and Ecuador. I have decided to cancel my $130 teeth cleaning scheduled for next month and doing it in Ecuador for $30. To save money and checkout the practice of that black art south of the equator. In the forums and blogs out of EC I've noticed only good reports about those who work in the mouths of others.
The days dwindle down to a precious few as Kurt Weil put it in 1939. About five and a half weeks until I am winging thru the hostile skies toward Quito. Still a bit of time for ordering new glasses and maybe sneakers. Time for guessing at what clothing will accomadate the several climates I might visit this winter. Light and heavy jacket, poncho, layers. I might get leather sandles down there. I need custom, having feet 17 wide. Thats fifty something European. I might leave the leather guy a plaster cast. Their jaws tend to drop on seeing my feet. After I'm gone they're sure it was just imagination. Pies muy GRANDE!! (very big feet) Yet at the convention of big feet, I can barely get accreditation and have to sit way in the back. Size seventeen is not considered much by some. Barely enough to get your foot in the door.
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