After having such a lovely time during our previous trip to the area, we decided to again stay in Puerto Morelos, Mexico.  Part of our stay included a visit to a local turtle farm, or tortugranja, where we happened upon this unhappy-looking customer. Click the photo below for the full photo set.

I took a few photos on a recent trip to the Canadian Rockies, where we stayed in Lake Louise. Click on the photo below for the entire set.

View from the Chateau Lake Louise

I took a few photos on a recent trip to the Tampa area. Click on the photo below for the entire set.

Salvador Dali Museum; Tampa, Fla.

Well, it’s time to share another playlist. This one is, imaginatively, called “Mama.” Can you guess the theme on this Mother’s Day?

Last month, we traveled to Mexico’s so-called Riviera Maya. We stayed in a little town called Puerto Morelos, about a half hour south of Cancun. I took some photos of the beachfront there, the neighborhood we stayed in, the Mayan ruins in Tulum and Chichen Itza and a little bit more. Click the photo below for the full photo set.

Detail of El Castillo at Chichen Itza.

With Labor Day upon us, it seems appropriate to share another playlist. This one is called “Automobile.” The driving theme seems appropriate because so many people take advantage of this three-day weekend to take driving trips. Unfortunately, the song that inspired the title — John’s Prine’s “Automobile” — is not available on Spotify. Here’s Prine playing it live in a 1980 televised concert. Song starts about 1 minute, 40 seconds in.

Anyhow, here’s the rest of the playlist. I had to make a couple of substitutions, again due to Spotify: a Bluegrass version of “Cut Every Corner” from The Simpsons, and John Hartford doing “Turn Your Radio On” instead of Grandpa Jones.

Summer is finally here. Here’s a playlist —Joyful Sounds — to help celebrate its arrival.

… I coulda been sleeping on Mama’s bed.

That line comes from this classic song, “Baby All Night Long,” by the Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers (featuring the splendid Clarence Ashley). Here it is below, courtesy of YouTube.

It is the one song I could not find on Spotify in my effort to reproduce and share a playlist I created a few months ago for Lucas and Elizabeth. I’ll let you guess the theme of this mix.