A hike up the abandoned radio tower hill

I've been making excellent progress this week on the next chapter (chapter 6: smoke and mirrors) of my book. I also have been doing almost no exercise this past week. Perhaps these two sentences are not completely unrelated. 

As a result, my body has been feeling neglected and somewhat jealous of my brain, and so I decided to give my brain a bit of time off and spend some time with my body, taking it for a 3-mile walk that included heading up a super steep hill with an abandoned radio tower up at the top. Here are some images of the portion of the walk that began at the base of that hill.

Just before that hill, a flowering tree that I don't think I've seen in bloom before.

A close-up of one of the blooms, fallen on the grass.

It's hard to capture just how steep a steep hill is.
I tried giving a sense of it by photographing a part that goes around a curve.

Holding the camera as vertical as I can.
You can see an abandoned building up the top
and a Panama tree on the right.

Here's the base of the Panama tree;
These trees look like rocket ships to me.
Their bases spread out like this because the soil is fertile,
but not deep, so having a wide base helps them to keep from toppling over.

One view of an abandoned radio tower building,
with the logo "Unión Panameño de Radio Aficionados"
just barely visible toward the top left side.

Another view of the same building.
You can still see the logo toward the top, and also lots of graffiti.

Lower down the hill, there's a . . . water tower? 
Not sure.  Of course more graffiti, with a bit
of a philosophical theme going.

It's also hard to capture how steep down a downhill can be.

On the hillside: a skeleton of what I'm guessing is (was) a dog.

A stairway to nowhere.  This concrete shed seems
to have been moved over to sit at the top of,
and to block, the stairs. Very odd.

Along the way home from the hill I stopped at the pond
to say hello to my friends the crocodiles.  
One is resting with chin on the shore; 
another is peeking out from the water at the top right of the photo.

The turtles in the same pond all swam over to say hello to me
and to ask if I'd brought them gifts.  I hadn't.

Further along the walk, I saw that the Russian Orthodox Church
had erected a new large banner/image.

It is impressively large.  
And very visible.  

And now my body is feeling a bit more appreciated.