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| I almost never go out without a cap. Here’s my collection! |
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| Similarly I never go out without sunglasses. And my collection of those, |
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| Heliconius Hecale Zuleika My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
This is not a new species, but It seems like I haven’t been photographing as many butterflies this year, so wanting to include one. I got a better shot of this Heliconius in August. Butterflies are fun!
Happiness is a butterfly . . .~Nathaniel Hawthorne
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| The cow and her growing calf were removed (sold?) and these four brought into pasture in front of my house. The fourth is a brown cow on right edge of photo. Sorry I couldn’t talk him/her into joining group. The abundance of rain has given a bumper crop of grass! Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| And finally weather is back to “Normal” with clear skies in the morning! View from my terrace this morning at breakfast. Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Many bats surrounding feeder until my flash goes off! They are really fast! |
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| Without flash you can see one blurry bat drinking nectar. |
I read somewhere that only long-tongued bats can do this and they are rare, so it is good to feed them. But that means refilling feeder every morning! Other option is to bring feeders in at night and to wipe them with oil of citronella to keep ants and other insects out of them sitting in kitchen sink or in frig. And my third option is to plant more flowers and let them feed off flowers alone. That is sounding better! 🙂 For now, I have decided I will bring in at night. I’m tired of boiling sugar water! 🙂
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| Home Business Signs: General Medicine & Dentistry It appears that husband is dentists & wife the general doctor Atenas, Costa Rica |
We are still getting the rains from the big Pacific storm that hit the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica around the little town of Uvita where the “Whale’s Tail” beach is located. Here’s an article about the storm with a beautiful photo of the Whale’s Tail beach made on a sunny day. Also article about the weather closing Manuel Antonio National Park.
My photo of “Whale’s Tail” Beach is not nearly as good during rainy season in May:
https://charliedoggett.smugmug.com/Vistas/Pacific-Beaches/i-z5FjpGf/A
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| October is usually the wettest of the rainy season months (May-November) And this year is therefore normal with rain every day in afternoon & evening or night. With mornings sometimes clear and sunny, but the last week or so just cloudy. Early October. Earlier this morning you could not even see the hills above for the clouds! Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| A week or two later photo with a Pacific front moving in. We had very heavy rain with the beginning of Hurricane Nate that started here. Then 2 or 3 weeks with very little rain and now it may be coming again. We will see! This shot 25 October. Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Mornings are very foggy . . . |
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| Even as the sun comes up! Though hard to capture in a photo! |
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| Yellow Eyelash Viper Photographed at Manzanillo, Costa Rica Haiku & photo by Charlie Doggett |
Check out my Haiku Photo Gallery for more like this. Expect a book eventually! 🙂
Or if it is the snake you like, see my Reptile Photo Gallery for a few more.
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| This is 12 of the 19 in the Conversational English Club meeting after school Mondays. Optional, not required for very busy teens involved in sports, arts, etc. that sometimes conflict. They are such a delightful group of kids, so friendly, kind, and respectful. Grades 8-11. In January they will go as exchange students to a school in a Virginia suburb of D.C. They are much like teenagers everywhere and yet different in a positive & cultural way. I have come to love everyone of them! Colegio Liceo de Atenas Atenas, Costa Rica |
See the school’s Cool YOUTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74S9aFTNN_Q
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| Everyone hangs out at Central Park some of the time! Like these 3 men and boy who just road to town, stopping for 3 bottles of beer & a mug of root beer. Central Park, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| They chose the one bar at the park instead of POPS Ice Cream Shop. It’s the cowboy way! 🙂 Bar Punga – In Spanish “punga” means “very familiar, nicking, thieving, or pickpocket” Central Park, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| It’s an island of green in the center of town with trees, flowers, benches, playground, fiestas, celebrations, & people! Central Park, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| The playground is always busy! Central Park, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| A water fountain for a drink or spigot to fill your water bottle as this lady is doing. Central Park, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| The center circle radiates 8 sidewalks to all sides of the park. All are lined with park benches full of gossip, romancing, reading… and one leads directly to front door of the main Catholic Church. Central Park, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| And this one leads directly to my bank! 🙂 I try to walk through the park every day on my walks. It is a simple blessing that I thank God for! Central Park, Atenas, Costa Rica |
Directly across from the full square block park you will find in addition to the above bar and ice cream shop, the courthouse, the municipal office building, one of our banks, several restaurants or places to get something to eat and drink, several clothing stores, one discount grocery store, an office building, a pharmacy, photography shop, bedding shop, the church, and I’m sure I left out at least one something! 🙂
Multiple sub-galleries of photos are about Atenas in Charlie Doggett’s COSTA RICA gallery.