I love this place!!

We find it so depressing, here in Mexico, how much Coca-Cola people consume. They have such easy access to freshly squeezed orange juice and other local fruit juices. The long reach of the huge multinationals is really frightening.

Right!! In this case, for me, things couldn't have been worse than to see a Coke machine in this spot. Get it out of there!! Also, I remember when the grass extended all the way over there where it is now all worn down to dirt. It was much more enchanting with grass all around.

I meant for my reply to be to you but I clicked the wrong 'reply'.

You would love this place. We were lucky to get up there fairly early in the day and there also has been a shift in weather making it much cooler than it's been. Usually it is sweltering on the trudge up these stones even early in the morning because it is totally exposed to the sun.

I think you are right, John. Good job! But Bill was on the right track with hibiscus because apparently this used to be classified as a hibiscus. Interesting plant, so high in nutrition. The dried leaves contain 12-14% protein! That's kind of amazing. I saw this plant just off the stone walkway, certainly it had not been planted.

He kind of looks like Bruce, don’t you think?

Is the message really "Things go better with CocaCola" ?

This one seems a little less soulful but that’s ok.

I want to be there. Right now.

Thank you for the Gentle Geography lesson! Clearly I need to venture off my latitude a little more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelmoschus_manihot

That's an eastern weeping chlamydia.

Be respectful and reverential and, above all else, Consume!

Barf.

Looks like some kind of Hibiscus.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/48891-Hibiscus/browse_photos?quality_grade=any&place_id=7001