Retro: Doves

Two very common things in Mexico.

First, the famous nopuntia (sometimes called prickly pear), in Mexico known as the nopal, a type of cactus, with its fruit. You can eat the cactus, and you can eat the fruit, and you’ve seen it on the Mexican flag.

Next, Mexican doves (also known as Inca doves). We see them all the time, and hear them when we can’t see them.

So these aren’t necessarily the “memories” that we usually have in the retro posts, but these pictures were indeed taken ten years ago. I love the fact that the doves can look so peaceful in what is such a prickly place for the rest of us!