The weather in Miami is warm, but not too hot, so walking is quite pleasant. Over the last week I have really enjoyed walking around the area of Miami Lakes. Having lived in gated communities in Brazil and Cape Town, it is lovely to be able to walk along the road and actually see the houses. Here, it is very open and there is obviously a high level of trust in the community, as people leave all sorts of things out in their front gardens, leave their garages open and many front porches have chairs with soft cushions left on them. All of these would be targets for thieves in other places.
The trees here are beautiful and very interesting. There are many flowering bushes, which overflow onto the sidewalk (pavement), fruit trees with ripe Papaya, unripe mangoes and bananas, and best of all, the cypress trees with their root system on the outside of the tree. They look so eerie and mysterious.
I mentioned the many ducks earlier, which wander along the paths close to the lakes. There are also other birds which have right of way. These I think are ibis, and we have many of these in Cape Town also, but not on the roads!
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