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Popping into Chapala’s municipal market early one morning, my eye was drawn to a display of fresh fruits bathed in golden sunlight. I couldn’t resist pulling out my camera to snap off a few shots of the stunning still life.

Getting around on lakeside area highways and by-ways can put your nerves on edge on the best of days.

For many full-time lakeside residents, the summer rainy season is the best time of year weather-wise.

La Virgen de Zapopan, Jalisco’s number one religious patroness, will blow into Chapala on July 8 for an annual visit that invariably falls on the second Sunday of the month, just as the rainy season comes into full force.

A couple of days remain before we learn the outcome of critical elections that will set Mexico and our lakeshore communities on a new course.

I wonder what newbie expats were thinking when they heard ear-splitting blasts of cohete rockets rip the air at mid-morning last Saturday.