I mentioned earlier about being very busy with several projects like changing doctors, renewing residency, and helping start the new “Artenas Galleria” that all have seemingly taken the leisure from my life – but not for much longer! 🙂 This morning I had my leisurely 30 minute walk to El Fogon restaurant for an Avocado Toast breakfast before grocery shopping at La Coope across the street. and the two shots in this post are from my morning walks in the garden over the last week+, with more photos coming! 🙂
And the feature photo (at top online) is of one of the recently budded “Maracas” or “Shampoo Ginger” flowers that I will have even more of this year. They are coming just as the other Maraca plant (orange) in my front yard has its flowers dying out, so I have one of the Maraca plants blooming almost all of the time on one side of the house or the other! 🙂 I will share more flower shots later along with very few birds and butterflies the last week. We finally got a reasonably good rain yesterday afternoon, but this is starting out to be the driest “Rainy Season” in my 8.5 years here! And somewhere I read that much of the entire globe will be dryer this year, including Central America.
My weekend blog bonus:
News summary video from Tico Times online English language newspaper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noCOzta1Msg which includes video of this week’s erupting volcano (that I visited in 2019) and a cool video of bees which are on the decline here like everywhere else in the world! It pleases me that nature is a priority in Costa Rica! And that much is being done to protect it in most sectors, though not a perfect country!
Or click their YouTube logo to see it:
¡Pura Vida!