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| Common Rain Frog (probably), though similar to Wet Forest Toad and Rain Forest Toad. There are more frogs/toads here than anywhere, ID is difficult! This one from my garden is waiting at my front door! About 3-5 inches, 10 cm. +/- Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica Click to enlarge photo. A third the size of Giant Toad shown earlier. |
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| Zerumbet Zerumbet Ginger, Maraca Plant in Costa Rica, and in other places Shampoo Ginger or Pine Cone Ginger (links are to Google photos of flowers) |
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| It is the tall plant, two spears now with the little yellow flower on ground at base. They grow 7 to 8 feet tall and can have a large cluster of flowers at base. Click photo links under top image. |
I’m really excited about this addition to my garden which I requested in the beginning, but they are very difficult to find. They surprised me the other day! In a year or two it will be developed more with multiple shoots and multiple flowers. The flower starts small and yellow like this one and by October will be more like a pine cone and will have turned red or sometimes orange. This may be the neatest addition to my garden yet! A Heliconia plant was in that location and they moved it to my front yard for more color there! It is fun to live in a garden! Plus I start traveling next week.
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| White-striped Longtail, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| White-striped Longtail, Atenas, Costa Rica |
He’s in the family of “Brown Longtails” which has several without the white stripes.
What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?~Roy Rogers 🙂
See my Costa Rica Butterflies Photo Gallery.
You can thumb through it electronically for free! My very first book in Spanish! 🙂 Be sure to click the “Full Screen” button bottom right.
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| Banded Peacock Butterfly, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Banded Peacock Butterfly, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Banded Peacock Butterfly, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Banded Peacock Butterfly, Atenas, Costa Rica |
“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.” ― Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer’s Life
See my Costa Rica Butterflies Photo Gallery.
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| Rufous-naped Wren, Atenas, Costa Rica (On the back of the couch in my living room! Looking out the screen window.) |
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| Rufous-naped Wren, Atenas, Costa Rica Making himself at home on a drink coaster. This is what happens with doors left open. |
Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; they sing among the branches.
~Psalm 104:12 ESV
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| Rufous-naped Wren, Atenas, Costa Rica Singing outside my window in the Strangler Fig Tree |
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| Dione Juno Silverspot butterfly, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Its top side looks much like a Julia, but underside (folded wings) different. Sorry – not a good image, but only one made of top side. Dione Juno Silverspot butterfly, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Dione Juno Silverspot butterfly, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Dione Juno Silverspot butterfly, Atenas, Costa Rica |
My garden is getting to be about as good as one of these butterfly houses or farms! It has been like a new species every few days! But the book says June and July are the two best months for butterflies in Costa Rica, so this show may start tapering off soon! I’m enjoying it while I can and don’t miss my Costa Rica Butterflies Photo Gallery!
The average butterfly life is between 5 and 14 days. And I think I don’t have enough time?
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
~Rabindranath Tagore
Enjoying the moments in Costa Rica! -Charlie
I reach for a paper towel in my kitchen and there is something alive on it!
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| Colobura Dirce butterfly, Atenas, Costa Rica I read that they like Cecropia leaves and I have a new Cecropia Tree! But not inside my house! |
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| I don’t even have to go outside to photograph butterflies! 🙂 But he startled me at first. |
| synonyms: | (happy) chance, (happy) accident, fluke
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And all my butterflies at Costa Rica Butterflies by Charlie Doggett photo gallery
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| On Feria Day (Farmers’ Market Day) I process some of the fruit purchased . . . |
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| . . . and then have a fruit plate for lunch! 🙂 |
I cut up half or more of the mango, pineapple and papaya into little squares and put in zip lock bags in the freezer to use in my fresh fruit frescos, refrescos de frutas, batidos, jugo de naturales or just smoothies for people from the states. And there are a lot of other names for drinks made from fresh fruit, plus a rice, cinnamon, and milk drink call horchata or an even better version with vanilla ice cream called leche muella. Fruit rules in Costa Rica!
Images, Descriptions & Uses of The Tropical Fruits of Costa Rica NEAT PAGE!
Probably at least one fruit here you have never heard of! And sorry, but I have not tried all of them yet! And this list is not all of the fruits found here.
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| At 1:30 I saw the clouds moving in over bright sunshine. |
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| By 4:30 the sun is gone and rain is everywhere, from the mountains to the valleys. Cooler too! |
After two weeks of a “mini dry season” it has been good this week to have rain again every afternoon and/or evening! Today it started at about 4:15 PM and is still raining at 8:00 PM which is good after the short dry period here in Atenas. The other extreme is the north of the country and the Caribbean coast has been inundated with rain and flooding, displacing many from their homes and closing several roads. So Atenas is still living up to our “best climate” fame.
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow