(Watercolor) My Friends’ Property near Mindo Ecuador
My Friends and WordPress Family:
The dengue and chikungunya side effects have all packed their bags and have left me in good health! Thank you so much for your support and concern as I regained my health. I am almost ready for the hurdles and am pain free. Yay!
Unfortunately, my Mindo friends are now the ones facing unexpected medical challenges, and I am in the cloud forest helping and will be mostly offline for the next few weeks. Julie is undergoing chemotherapy in Nebraska now, and I am helping Jim prepare to ship their belongings back to the USA. I will oversee their amazing property until it sells. It is with great sadness that I witness their dilemma, yet I am glad to be of help.
Will be online soon with details, but I will based in Mindo for the next few months and online briefly. I will leave you with sample images of the beauty of this area.
Will be back around midweek. See you then! Z
Zeebra Designs & Destinations 
Z such sad news of your friend Julie – please let her know that she is in my thoughts and prayers. They couldn’t leave the property in better hands that yours – not only will you be able continue to recoup, but also the area looks like it will spring much creativity for you. I’m thrilled that you have 100% recovered, what good news and what we’ve all been waiting to hear. Love your photographs of Mindo – stay safe and take care my friend.
thank you so much; she’ll read this if she has the strength.. the treatments are tough on her.. (Hi Julie, stay positive, you’re tough and have survived lots including a rattlesnake bite!)
Thanks again!
My best to your friend, Julie. I know the treatments are not easy nor pleasant. Fond memories of the home there might help.
And good news that you are back in full health. We are all truly happy for that.
Best
Larry
Prayers to your friends and Julie’s healing. Positive light and Love! Mindo is incredibly beautiful from your wonderful photos. I’m so glad you are pain free and as someone said above, you can draw much inspiration from your location for more art.
Hey Sis, sorry I haven’t been more in touch with you. I hope you had a wonderful birthday. I thought of you more times than once that day, the 14th, and wished we had “phone communication”!! Phones you hate, but I do much better calling than trying to email or text. Both of my computers bit the dust from past “injuries” from my past experiences, and this borrowed one has many issues that challenge my patience, so I don’t like using it much. Still no excuse for not contacting you on your birthday. Looks like you are staying in a beautiful place. I’m sorry your friend is having medical problems. I wish her a speedy and complete recovery. Battling cancer is never easy. I am so glad to hear you are back to being healthy again and feeling good again. I will be dealing with some health problems for the next few months, but am upbeat and positive that all will work out for the best. Just another bump or two in the road. I love you, your sister Pat P.S., My Ole Miss roommate and pal Barbie has been here for a couple of weeks visiting me, and I will be taking her to Monterey,CA in a few days. We will stay with a relative of her that is having surgery and then I will take Barbie to Vegas middle of next week so catch a flight back to Memphis. It sure has been nice having her here.
Oh, Z, may Julie’s chemotherapy go well for her and eradicate the cancer. May the move back be as stress free as possible, and may your task be stress free as well.
Happy birthday to you too! Huge hugs…. ^..^
So sorry to hear of Jim and Julies situation…they are so lucky to have you as their caretaker and friend your intuition and sensitivity to people and life round you give you healing qualities. We are so glad you are well and feeling so able to take this on for them.
best wishes for healing both from us
Gwen
oh my I didn’t know you knew two! Jim’s and Julies..!
So sorry about your friend and the way she and her husband have to leave. I am sure you’ll be a wonderful caretaker of that beautiful place. You’re sure to find a lot of inspiration for your art!
My thoughts are with you all – happy for your recovery and hope for Julie’s recovery as well. Take care and we will hear from you later!”
Z, I am glad you have returned to health, but am sorry about your friends’ challenges. Absolutely breathtaking scenery!!
Such beautiful photographs. Take care
So glad to hear you are better, Lisa! And so sad to hear about your friends…they are fortunate to have such a good friend as yourself. All good wishes from Scotland!
I’m so happy to hear you’re pain free, though probably not in your heart. Prayers for all of those in need. Hugs to you. I can see where you get your inspiration from. ❤️😊
I’m so pleased to hear you are fully recovered Lisa but sorry to hear of your friend Julies sad news. They must be devastated to leave such a beautiful haven but will know it is in your safe hands. What an inspirational place it is for you to stay in and with no internet to disturb you I can imagine the art work will be flowing from your heart and your hands. Stay well I will be thinking of you till we hear from you again.
All the very best to your friends, Z. What a difficult time for them. Glad you are fully well again.
WOW!!! How beautiful.
Just another gorgeous photo essay – I remain amazed that such places exist – so much beauty in one place – so sorry you have to be there under sad circumstances. Your help and support must be invaluable to both Jim and Julie. I assume you had to put your trip to CR off, yet again! I hope it won’t cause you any undue financial or emotional hardship. If there is anything I can do to help upon my return, please don’t hesitate to ask. I haven’t heard much about the great bamboo experiment in CBV. I did see pictures and Linda promised to give me an update so I remain hopeful 🙂 Have a wonderful day and may your kindness be returned ten fold! So glad to hear that you are feeling healthy! Oh and from reading your comments, I hear I missed a birthday – Happy Birthday Amiga – I hope 2015/2016 is your best year ever!! Hugs, Pat
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Gorgeous pictures… Love them all…
This has got to be an expats worst nightmare, experiencing a medical crisis and having to make these sad decisions. There must be a reason for your health to return just when your friends need you the most. Do take care of yourself, too, Lisa. My best to Julie and Jim. I’m thankful you are surrounded by such beauty.
Glad you’re feeling better, but sad that things are going badly for your friends. You and your Dengue Fever and Chikungunya came up in conversation recently with my German friends and family. Of course I couldn’t say or pronounce Chikungunya, but they knew what I meant. We called it the “C” disease, awful, terrible, and something to lose asap.
Ha! You have a talent for making me chuckle! The C word is fun to pronounce, once the cyllables are practiced a few times.. CHEEK-KOON-GOON-YAH… Chik-koon-GOON-yah……
I am so very happy to be past the pain and am now building back my strength. today i had to ask for help opening a bottel of water, but even tasks like that are getting easier.
Thanks, dear amiga!
Hi Lisa – VERY glad to hear you’re back to 100 percent. And glad too that you can help your friends. Mindo is a beautiful area, a great place to recharge, I’m sure. Be well.
Good to know you are pain-free.. and will add my thoughts to those who still need healing.. Take care.. Love and Blessings.. Sue x x x
I’m so glad to hear that you’re now pain-free. May it continue so!
A worrisome diagnosis is bad enough — having to uproot for treatment, and let go of such a marvelous place surely is painful, as well. I’m so glad they have you to help out, and I do hope all goes well for them.
Just remember the good advice that Varnish John offered to me, long ago: “Do what you can do, not what you can’t.”
hey amiga
thanks so much, and that’s great advice! i’m feeling well and am glad to be here to help. i opened your sunflower post and read it offline when i returned to the finca.. what a great post and i wished to have time to try to produce my own four or so versions as fast as possible as an answer to your post.. but alas, that can wait until i have pigments and brushes in hand and ready for someone to say, ‘ready.. set… GO!’
Am in town and answering some emails… hope all’s ok there in tx. love, z
I’m hopelessly behind–so, so sorry for your double-whammy illness!! You are a trooper. I can’t imagine going through all that. My thoughts and prayers are with you now–even if a little late!!
All is good especially the Mindo cloud photos.
They remind me of Chinese art.
You will be back in top gear painting again that’s great.
Our art teacher has Pauline really keen about art.
We are both enjoying the art group and have an exaptation coming up.
I am sure Pauline will do a post on it.
Grand to hear you back to normal. Sorry for your friends illnesses. Our prayers with you as you care for them, and of course with them too.