I got photos of more that just butterflies and birds in the CR Caribe! Check out these 8 weird and colorful insects from along the same beach road at Hotel Banana Azul where I photographed birds and butterflies.
Fun Insects
New “Murals Parking Lot”
Earlier I showed a photo of one side that was being painted as a mural, but had no idea it would become like this and it appears to be nearly finished. Click an image to see it larger and/or start a manual slide show:
Atenas is a small rural town where people expect to park on the street, but as it has grown and gained a lot of rich foreigners with multiple cars, parking lots are becoming necessary, though people everywhere are slow to adapt. This colorful place to park should help those not wanting to change and pay to park. It is colorful like our beautiful little town. See also the “old town” in the video below in the right column, titled “Atenas: Best Weather in the World.” A cool place to live!
¡Pura Vida!
Pre-parade Dancing is Most Colorful!
In some ways this was my favorite part of the parade today because it was so colorful and new! We did not have this during the last two years’ parades. I love latin music and dance and the color! Nice!
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| Music is the best cure for a sorrowing mind. Latin Proverb |
A Colorful Day!
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| Colorful Dress Shop in Alajuela |
Yalile came at 8 AM today to clean my apartment, my first time for a maid. I have scheduled her for every two weeks now. I’m pretty clean but she probably does more than me with dusting furniture, cleaning the floor and the bathrooms & kitchen. It makes me feel cleaner now. 🙂 The standard rate here is 2,000 colones per hour or $4. So for $8 I get 2 hours of cleaning! Spic and span clean! It is such a good deal I might even consider going weekly when I’m in town. But I’m not ready to give her a key yet, maybe in the future. Plus she is already helping me with my Spanish and I with her English learning. When you have to communicate is when you really learn a language!
After she left, I went to Alajuela again, which I always love and it is always a colorful place! I don’t think I will ever tire of walking around Alajuela! Especially with a camera! Just phone pix again. I’m tempted to take my camera bag and good cameras, but then you just call attention to yourself and its sometimes harder to do candid shots. I still don’t photograph many people which I’m afraid will be considered rude. But occasionally catch a candid like the umbrella guy below.
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| Methodist Church at the Alajuela Central Park Made more colorful by the guy losing his umbrella to the wind! |
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| A Fruit Stand on nearly every block in Alajuela. |
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| Move Over South Beach! We have Art Deco too! In Alajuela Central. |
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| I finally found and ate at the raved-about Jalapenos Restaurant. It is good and better prices than Tacontendo from yesterday, but just Tex Mex food by a transplanted New Yorker serving mostly expats. |
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”
― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
“I have led a pretty colorful life.”
Corey Feldman