A Laden Uvita in La Manga del Peligro

In the stretch of land that the Foundation's people call La Manga del Peligro, Michel Salas raised his camera toward the midday sky and captured what the tree had to offer: an open, generous canopy, its branches ending in clusters of fruit as white as small pearls. It was one of those days of clean, unfiltered sun, when the blue of the sky above Cartagena looks freshly painted. The tree is a uvita — Cordia dentata, known in these hills for its small fruits that draw birds and mammals when they ripen — and that Sunday it was heavy with them. Michel didn't spot any animals in that moment, but the fruit doesn't lie: when the uvita is this full, the visitors are only a matter of time.