Expats living in Atenas, Costa Rica (mostly retirees) have a Facebook Group Page where expats ask one another “how to” or “where to” kinds of questions and share important information. Each year the group has a photo contest for what will be the group’s page header that year. My shot or our town from a hill in Roca Verde one foggy morning is the winner this year! 🙂
I almost used this photo for my digital Christmas Card this year. Glad I didn’t so it will now be solely the identity of the group.
And my prize? Something yummy from Pat’s kitchen! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
The full photo below lends itself well to the narrow crop for a page header:
Congratulations! Well deserved; you take great photos.
¡Gracias Robbie! Actually it’s easy to make good photos when you live in a beautiful place like Costa Rica! 🙂 ¡Pura Vida!
Your photos are beautiful always. This one especially so! Congratulations!
¡Muchas gracias Kathy! I live in a beautiful place!
Congratulations, Charlie. In my opinion, all your photographs are award winners!
¡Gracias Larry! Its really where I live now that’s the award winner! 🙂
Congratulations Charlie, lovely picture.
By the way what is that butterfly on the cover of your butterfly book?
I have a picture of one laying eggs in my garden
¡Gracias Margaret! How can we not have lovely pictures when we live in such a lovely place? 🙂
The butterfly on the cover of my butterfly book is a Rusty Clearwing, Pteronymia picta. It is sometimes lumped into the general category of “Glasswings,” (not a scientific category) but is in the scientific group called “Ticlears.” For all my identifications I use the best book I could find on butterflies here (not many available): A Swift Guide to Butterflies of Mexico and Central America, Second Edition, by Jeffrey Glassberg, available on Amazon.com.
Be sure to see tomorrow’s post on butterflies at Arenal.
Congratulations!
¡Gracias Charles! I love it here!