Hound Dog
Nov 20, 2010, 2:25 PM
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We were driving over to Tapalpa from Ajijic a few years ago when we decided to stop to visit an old church in Amacueca just for fun and, while visiting the church´s courtyard we spotted several scraggly bushes which were unimpressive except that they had these really attractive bright red fruits clustered, typically, a a manner reminiscent of human testicles and we asked around as to what those bushes were and were told by locals that they were quite poisonous and. thus inedible although attractive and for that reason they were known locally as "Huevos de Obispo" or Bishop´s Testicles. Fine to observe but with no other earthly function. Well, we were able to scrounge some of the fruit and took it back with us to Ajijic and nurtured them and, upon the successful completion of that process, planted a bush in our garden and today, a few years later, we have successfully grown that tree amidst a mandarin orange tree and now are both are in full fruit and the contrast of the bright red huevos de obispo and the bright orange of the mandarin orange tree makes for a splendid and colorful sight.
That sight today took me far away to San Cristóbal de Las Casas where we bought a home for reconstruction in about 2004 because we wanted to live there, first of all, and also because a new autopista was scheduled to open that year from the Chiapas Depression at Chiapa de Corzo on the Grijalva River to San Cristóbal which would open the always previously remote Jovel Valley from the state capital at Tuxtla Gutierrez to a reasonable commute time and, in our view, without as of yet any knowledge of Calderon´s impending war, we felt that would be a reasonably good investment in an area previously growth stunted due to inaccessability.
Well, in about 2005, when the autopista between Chiapa de Corzo and San Cristóbal was supposedly finished and ready to open, the high canyon bridge half way up the escarpment was determined to be in danger of collapse due to engineering flaws and the autopista never opened until a year later after retrofitting presumably made the bridge reasonably safe. This time, after the reconstruction, the bridge was not reopened until the Bishop of San Cristóbal - a most important regional church official - came to the bridge and sanctified the damn thing. He drew huge crowds and this was quite a festive occasion. Huevos de Obispo indeed.
(By the way; it must have worked because that sucker is still standing.)
(This post was edited by Hound Dog on Nov 20, 2010, 2:34 PM)
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