“It got so I couldn’t go hiking without seeing one of my neighbors dragging down a tree,” monarch butterfly conservationist and eco-tourism entrepreneur Ellen Sharp, PhD, recently wrote from her home and B&B at the border of the state of Michoacan near a sanctuary for the colorful creatures.

The headline of Guadalajara Reporter stories published on the coronavirus pandemic illustrate the development of disease both locally and nationally over the second half of 2020.

This past Monday, the sun paused for its moment of solstice before changing direction to move northward.

On Covid, there is good news and bad news. On the one hand, we have the vaccines and a certain mildness compared to killers such as cancer and heart attacks, which leads many to shrug it off.

At least 3,150 in metropolitan Guadalajara. 90,000 in Mexico; and 110,000 in the United States. 

Although customary December 12 festivities honoring La Virgen de Guadalupe will be left aside due to coronavirus, many lakeside householders are expected to crown Mexico’s spiritual patroness in glory with traditional shrines mounted at their doorsteps for the occasion.