Am writing this from my apartment on Montevideo in Recoleta, Buenos Aires. The weather is beautiful, 75 degrees and maybe 60% humidity and allergy season has begun. The Jacaranda trees are starting to bloom. They are all over this city, tall and elegant, black bare branches with purple blooms. Remembering the differences in the North […]
Read more "Day 242 More or Less, Maybe Still, Quarantine continues.."This morning we learned our quarantine was extended another two weeks, until October 25th. The city of Buenos Aires aka CABA has been able to bring down the numbers for the virus, but 18 of the outlying provinces has seen an increase and their hospitals are almost to capacity. Sitting here at a cafe, looking […]
Read more "Days 204 – 207 Still…."Wow. Such a long time. Yet some changes are starting to take place. Here the virus still has large numbers of victims both getting ill and dying. The city is still in the grips of the first round of losses, while in other countries they are experiencing the rebound of infections. What was once Argentina’s […]
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