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| Cellphone shot in Roca Verde Neighborhood, Atenas, Costa Rica |
This is the view that a few houses up the hill from me have. It is one of the views I have when I walk the kilometer circle through my neighborhood. Peaceful and rural.
My photo gallery of Haiku
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| Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Rancho Naturalista, Turrialba, Costa Rica Photo by Charlie Doggett |
These guys have been feeding a lot in my garden and at the hummingbird feeder I inherited from Anthony.
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| Rain dripping off my Guarumo or Cecropia Tree |
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| In My Home Garden Atenas, Costa Rica |
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The Dollar is at its highest value in Costa Rica right now, meaning a good time for U.S. people to visit or vacation or buy property here when you get more colones for the dollar, as much as C581 this article says. It had been at around 530 for a long time which was good, but this is better! 🙂 Best in the last 7 years says the article!
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| Maraca Plant or Shampoo Ginger My Garden, Atenas, Costa As always: Click Image to Enlarge |
I had the gardeners clean out my garden today, cutting back the plumbago which was taking over everything like a plant-eating monster and this is part of what was opened up. New surprises every day in a garden! And I used to be happy with one or two of these flowers! 20+ now! This sure is different from gardening in Tennessee! 🙂
See also My Garden Photo Gallery or the bigger FLORA & FORESTS gallery
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| About noon I take boat from here to “wet landing” (barefoot through surf) in the little village of Drake Bay. Then a taxi with a Canadian family who were in another hotel, going to the Drake Bay Airport (photos below). Then less than an hour flight to San Jose Airport in Alajuela and my personal taxi prescheduled to take me home where I ordered pizza delivered, started laundry and a few other chores before collapsing! |
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| Drake Bay Airport Terminal, Ticket Office & Gift Shop Drake Bay, Costa Rica |
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| Bording Gate, complete with attendant & fire extinguisher! Drake Bay, Costa Rica |
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| Drake Bay Airport Drake Bay, Costa Rica |
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| The Thrill of the Cockpit Drake Bay, Costa Rica |
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| Goodbye Drake Bay, a bay off the Pacific Ocean at Corcovado Park Drake Bay, Costa Rica |
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| Crossing the Mountains to San Jose in 45 minutes! (All day on bus) Talamanca Mountains, Costa Rica |
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| Main Terminal, San Jose Airport – But Sansa has its own little terminal. Alajuela, Costa Rica |
My TRIPS Photo Gallery on this Drake Bay Trip
TWO WEB ARTICLES ABOUT MY PHOTOGRAPHY HOBBY & LATEST BOOK:
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| Music is the best cure for a sorrowing mind. Latin Proverb |
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| Most cart are filled with family members! Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Errrrrr, hmmmmm, son, this is an oxcart parade! Kids pushing their limits everywhere! 🙂 And here, people just say “¡Pura Vida!” |
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| And the line goes on and on! Three years of these and I’ve had enough, leaving early for lunch! They used to all be so unique, now they all look the same! 🙂 |
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| Hey! You need to get in the spirit of the parade! Cowboy hats and belts! |
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| As with all fiestas here, the Central Park is filled with venders selling everything from food to arts & crafts and even kitchen utensils! I had a caramel-filled churro and a Churchill to drink. See below. |
Costa Rica Churchill, is sort of a drink and a dessert found in lots of fiestas across the country, but mainly associated with Punterenas, the port city on the Pacific. Click the title to read an article about them and started in my birth year, 1940. Mine here was a little different than the one he describes. It was about 1/3 vanilla ice cream, 1/3 red snow cone (strawberry I think), and 1/3 canned fruit cocktail, not the fresh fruit in the article. Needless to say, Ticos love sugar! Me too! Like, would you ever find a churro in Mexico that is relleno with caramel? Costa Rica is just a sweeter place! 🙂
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| And little town kiddie thrills! A bouncy house too! |
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| White-winged Dove In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Blue-gray Tanager In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| In My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
One of my favorite things to do is to sleep until I wake up, shower, eat a liesurely breakfast on my terrace admiring flowers and the visiting birds. So, after a busy, early, hard day hiking yesterday, I had one of my relaxed mornings today (23rd) and recorded part of it in the above photos. There were other birds and more flowers, but this is a good sample for today.
