As every year on New Year’s Eve, I am trying my best to narrow down my favorite photos to just 12 – pretty much impossible! 🙂 But I always do it anyway and never by the months. This year I created 6 categories of photos and chose 2 pix in each. As usual, the birds category was the most difficult to narrow down, so tomorrow I am publishing another post with the 9 runner ups in the bird category. 🙂
The Categories this year are: 1) Birds, 2) Butterflies, 3) Other Insects, 4) Other Wildlife, 5) Flowers, 6) Landscapes. And the ones labeled from “Atenas” are all from my garden except the vista from Casita del CafĂ©.
My twelve choices for 2024 will be below this one photo for the email version. They are a slideshow in the online version, so email recipients please click “Read More” below for 12 great photos! 🙂
Breakfast Vista, Casita del Café, Atenas 
Juno Longwing (Dione juno), Atenas 
Pagoda Flower (Clerodendrum paniculatum), Atenas 
Square-spotted Dasher, Maquenque Eco Lodge 
Spider Monkey, Maquenque Eco Lodge 
Bee on Wildflower, Atenas 
Green Ibis fishing on cloudy day, Maquenque 
Mexican Tree Frog, Maquenque Eco Lodge Yellow-throated Toucan, Arenal Observatory Lodge & Trails, Costa Rica 
Bird of Paradise Flower & Rufous-tailed Hummingbird., Arenal Observatory 
Sunrise, Hotel Banana Azul, LimĂłn Province 
Many-banded Daggerwing, my garden, Atenas
¡Pura Vida!
And HAPPY NEW YEAR!