Shaping Haiku
Flowers & Other Plants at Corcovado-Drake Bay
A little sample of the beauty of the rainforest:
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| A short street in the village of Drake Bay called “Hibiscus Way” Drake Bay, Costa Rica |
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| Red Hibiscus Drake Bay, Costa Rica |
Sorry, but I do not know the name of most of these flowers and other plants.
See also my Photo Gallery called Flora & Forests
My TRIPS Photo Gallery on this Drake Bay Trip
About Corcovado National Park (Wikipedia) and About Drake Bay (Wikipedia)
Pink Bud Haiku
Chromatic Ginger Haiku
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| Red Ginger flower My Garden, Atenas, Costa Rica |
Count it a coincidence that my ex-wife’s nickname was “Ginger.” She died last summer of cancer in Gatesville, Texas. And that she too was chromatically colorful in her own way. 🙂
Photo Gallery of My Home Garden
Link to post About Ginger & Jason just before she died.
And the announcement of her death: Ginger Is Gone
Some may call it poetic justice that my garden has many of two kinds of flowers called “Ginger,” this Red Ginger and a yellow Shampoo Ginger flower. Only fellow divorcees can understand all the many mixed feelings when something reminds you of your ex, especially after her death. Then life goes on!
Heavenly Sunlight
Pre-Easter Color in Atenas
Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail
I neither saw nor photographed a single bird, though I heard many. But it was a beautiful walk in the rainforest across the road from the lodge on a trail they created for about 2-3 km. It is a similar cloud forest to what I walked through in Tenorio Park, just fewer people! Here are a dozen photos without much comment:
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| Rainforest Trail Seen from Lodge Dining Room Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail, Bijagua, Costa Rica |
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| Tree Fern
Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail, Bijagua, Costa Rica |
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| One of Many Old Growth Trees Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail, Bijagua, Costa Rica |
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| Flower at Entrance to Trail Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail, Bijagua, Costa Rica |
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| Fern Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail, Bijagua, Costa Rica |
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| Unknown Berries Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail, Bijagua, Costa Rica |
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| Tree Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail, Bijagua, Costa Rica |
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| Tree Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail, Bijagua, Costa Rica |
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| Plant Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail, Bijagua, Costa Rica |
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| Much Grows on the Trees Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail, Bijagua, Costa Rica |
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| Air Plant Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail, Bijagua, Costa Rica |
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| Footbridge Over Stream Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail, Bijagua, Costa Rica |
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| Trail Welcome & Rules in Spanish, English & French Celeste Mountain Lodge Rainforest Trail, Bijagua, Costa Rica |
My real highlight was the Birds at Celeste Mountain Lodge, link to earlier post.
Or you might want to see the lodge’s website for more about their services, great food, etc.
For more photos of Costa Rica, see my gallery called Charlie Doggett’s COSTA RICA
Celeste Mountain Lodge
Another great nature place!
¡PURA VIDA!
Triquitraque or Flame Vine Blooming for This Year
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| The brilliant orange flowers of Triquitraque or Flame Vine is a great contrast to the blue Plumbago flowers. I saturated the color so they’re not really this red, but are a deeper orange than next untouched photos. |
If I remember correctly they will bloom 2 to maybe 3 months, February-April. I had hoped for year around blooms like some of my other plants, but this gives me something special for this time of year. And this year they cover more of my stark concrete wall, which is what I wanted! 🙂 ¡Me gusta!
AND PHOTOS FROM LAST YEAR:
See also my photo gallery Flora & Forests
And read about Flamevine which Costa Ricans call Triquitraque, Spanish for “a string of firecrackers” or sometimes can mean “creaking” or “rattling” in colorful conversations. 🙂
Trees Blooming Today
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| African Tulip Tree Also called Flame of the Forest and Fountain Tree At a neighbor’s house on the hill above me. Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow Bell Tree I have many of these around my house & just starting to bloom. Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
My photo gallery FLORA & FORESTS
Or more specifically MY HOME GARDENS
This Morning’s Garden
Each morning I walk through my garden and then eat breakfast on my terrace. Today I liked:
There are many more blooming of course, especially the red ginger and porter weed all the time, but not sure I’ve shown the above recently, so enjoy! I love life in the natural, slow lane in Costa Rica! With no car! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
See also my photo gallery call Flora and Forests for more flower photos.