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I love it when someone buys one of my photos and then sends me a photo of how they used it in their home. That is what one lady did with these two images she got at my “Moving Sale” this week. Nice!
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature.
It will never fail you.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
¡Pura Vida!
See my galleries: FLORA & FOREST Costa Rica
One of my favorite doves here. See more of my photos of this tropical bird in my gallery: Inca Dove. These two were seen along the road by the cow pasture.
¡Pura Vida!
That is “God bless you!” in Spanish and what one of my many moving sale guests said to me upon leaving. And I said to myself that it was kind of representative of the wonderful group of different people who have come by for the sale which has slowed down, though officially ends Friday and I still have two appointments on Thursday! 🙂
I had both Ticos and Expats coming to the sale with Ticos coming mostly for the practical kitchen and household things while most expats came for art. And all have been such interesting and very nice people! A mother who works the night shift at the local Emergency Room and later her very polite and thankful twenty-something son for some cheap prices on things he needed like the sleeper sofa. A former missionary to Peru who retired here before her husband died and for years helped administer the local children’s home that you FBC Nashville people met. Neighbors, friends and total strangers from all over the world came by and they are partly what make Costa Rica the interesting and enjoyable place it is.
So yes, God did bless me in a simple process like a moving sale and continues to bless me in so many different ways here in Costa Rica – a move that I continue to thank Him for! And I’m thanking Him that things are seeming to fall in place for this next big adventure! It has always been difficult for me to let someone serve me as I’ve always seen myself as the servant, but I can tell you that I’m really looking forward to someone else preparing the meals! 🙂 Along with new relationships, activities and some new environments to explore.
And that feature photo? It was my last bed in the states with the print of Jesus in Gethsemane that hung over my maternal grandmother’s bed and has mine now for many years and I am taking it with me to Verdeza where it will again hang over the head of my bed as it has for the 12 years here in Atenas. Just one more of God’s many blessings! 🙂 The official title is “Christ in Gethsemane” by Heinrich Hofmann in 1886. And I like the sepia toned print as did my grandmother. 🙂
Bear with me as I don’t blog much for several weeks while I get the big move done and adjust to a new environment and then I hope for a new blogging spirit to keep me creative and still focused on nature!
¡Pura Vida!
There has been no time for blog posts this week with an off and on flow of local people responding to my Moving Sale Galleries (linked) and I have continued to add items for sale, so locals please keep coming back! 🙂 THIS WILL BE THE LAST WEEK OF THE SALE! Ending Saturday 14 November.
The most over-looked or not used categories have been the arts, except for my African Arts Sale Gallery (linked) which has only 3 items left! And they are 3 of my favorites! 🙂 Now I’m telling you about the three other art categories with hugely discounted prices that might interest you . . .
This sub-gallery has some of my “Collected Art” from over the many years of my long life and though I love it all, I will likely live the rest of my life in a small apartment without space to display or store it all, so some must go. CLICK ON THE ABOVE IMAGE TO SEE THAT GALLERY, then call for a time to come by and check it out as with the next two sub-galleries.
My first 12 years living here in Costa Rica and many of the last 10 in the USA were given to nature and travel photography and above is mainly wall art from over these last nearly 20 years with a few other things like two mouse pads and I have 5 coffee mugs left that I am just giving away if interested in a mug with a butterfly photo. Like with the previous gallery, call for a time to come look at what is available and finally I have everything clearly labeled with the price and other information. And yes, much of the above are items that did not sell in my earlier efforts in an art gallery and some arts & crafts fairs, but ALL ARE DISCOUNTED AT LEAST 75% with a few as low as $1!
And lastly, one of my favorites, the Flower Photos Accent Pillows, that I never understood why they did not sell at the gallery or the craft fairs, but now you can get a brilliant $20 accent pillow for only$1!
If you have ever moved, you know that there are a million things that have to be done and the moving sale prevented me from doing many of them including a physical for entry into a Senior Adult facility along with address changes and cancellations, etc. etc.! 🙂
That last week will be capped off on Sunday 22 November with a “Farewell Charlie Luncheon” at a neighbor’s house with several local friends coming to say goodbye. Then 23 & 24 are the very last minute packing with the actual move on 25 November and the beginning of another chapter of the old man’s life, an adventure to still be discovered from the greenway to the city streets! A lot to explore and discover! Plus a lot of new friends to grow old with. Thanks to all of you for your kindnesses and good wishes and the blog might be quiet again for a while as I finish the transition to a blog from a slightly different perspective. We will see what happens! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
It is coming together and I will continue to add more items over the next week I’m sure, but the website Photo Gallery Listing of Items For Sale is well underway and can be seen at this web address: https://charliedoggett.smugmug.com/MOVING-SALE
It is of course mostly for local people in or near Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica, but if someone anywhere in the world is willing to pay the shipping cost for anything (like some of the art or the stamp collection) then I will get it shipped to you once paid. If you have any questions, use the CONTACT menu item at the top of this page.
This is all happening very fast for me! It has to end no later than November 20 and probably sooner as I have to get rid of everything one way or another.
¡Pura Vida!
My blog/website host just reported to me that I had 11,000 views or visits in the month of October 2026! That just makes me want to do a better job, but be patient with me while I make this big move in November, then I’ll settle down to an even better nature blog! 🙂
Next to my nature photos, the best collection I’ve made during my 12 years in Costa Rica is this collection of handmade artisan birds here in Costa Rica and other Central American countries + Peru. I have 50 individual ornaments now, packed neatly in a Tupperware box, but with my coming move I must get rid of most of my “stuff.” I’m thinking that the collection might be worth close to $500, but it is yours for just $50. TO SEE PHOTOS OF MANY OF THE ORNAMENTS, go to this gallery: My Artisan Bird Tree
I expect that a buyer would be local here in Atenas, and if interested CALL OR WHATSAPP 8410-9916 or EMAIL charlie@charliedoggett.net as indicated on the page for this in my temporary gallery: MOVING SALE!
¡Pura Vida!
On a short morning walk by the cow pasture this morning I managed to capture this image of a Groove-billed Ani (my gallery link) that is moderately common in this part of Costa Rica. See some of my other images in the above-linked gallery. And you can read about them and see their range map on eBird.
¡Pura Vida!
I’m just starting it and before even the first gallery was up I sold most of my potted plants to a neighbor, but there are so many more things that I must sell before moving, so keep checking it for new additions over the next couple of weeks. It is in the form of a Gallery titled Moving Sale! (linked) And everything is priced way below the value. Everything must go!
During the last week of November (23-29) I begin my next big adventure in life and what for many is their last. On whichever day that week the apartment is ready, I move to the Verdeza Senior Living Apartments in Escazu, a suburb of San Jose, Costa Rica. I start with the independent living but will be there if and when assisted living or nursing care is required. And one of the most attractive things to me is that the dining room is a real restaurant with multiple-options menus, changing weekly, plus morning and afternoon snacks provided! 🙂 Also, there will be much more social interaction than I have been getting in my little Atenas hideaway! It is a change that I believe I am ready for and probably need. A lot of things have been happening to lead to this change and I decided not to try and explain.
I will not be immersed in as much nature as I have been in Atenas, nor will I be able to afford as many trips to nature lodges and national parks, but I will be just a 10 minute walk from the Rutas Naturbanas Greenway at Avenida Escazu and similar distances from at least two city parks, so not completely without nature! 🙂 Plus I will be just a 10 minute walk in one direction to a very large Walmart and in the other direction just a 10 minute walk to Office Depot that I often need and it is next to the large Multi-Plaza Shopping Mall with a big screen theater, all near the Rutas Naturbanas greenway! 🙂 It is reminding me of my 10 years in a rowhouse in downtown Nashville across the street from the Bicentennial Capital Mall State Park. 🙂
I will keep you up to date with information on my move, though during that last week of November I may not have much time for blog posts. 🙂 We will see. It is kind of like that last month in Nashville, trying to get rid of my accumulated “junk” or stuff for a move into a much smaller apartment this time and a thousand other details to manage. Not an easy challenge, but doable! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
And a link to an instagram video about the Rutas Naturbanas en español of course:
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DSJH03ikelN
And hopefully publishing my new address online won’t create a problem or an onslaught of marketing mail! Effective 23 November:
Charlie Doggett, Apartamento 315
Edificio Verdeza a mano derecha
De Oficentro El Cedral, 1 km al oeste
Trejos Montealegre, Escazú
10203 Costa Rica
¡Pura Vida!
The AIs threw out possibilities but no match. My research shows the closest genus to be Nyctibora, with no exact species match found there. It is one genus of the many cockroaches and you can see a list of it’s possible species on Wikipedia. I photographed this one on the grasses of the cow pasture across the street.
¡Pura Vida!
One of, if not the most frequently seen butterflies this year for me (a down year for butterflies). See my collection of them in the gallery: Banded Peacock (linked). It is another of those butterflies found only in Central America and the lower edges of Mexico.
¡Pura Vida!