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While I’m still in the hospital recuperating from surgery today, please take a walk through my garden via a slideshow of flowers that were blooming last Wednesday, 10 March.
And if you like flowers, check out my gallery: Flora & Forest.
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
– Audrey Hepburn
¡Pura Vida!
By Wednesday or Thursday I hope to give a report on my health. This was another “Pre-published” blog post done before I went in for surgery. I’m not home with my computer yet.
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
~Sheryl Crow
¡Pura Vida!
There was a lot of other beauty seen in January at
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
~Joseph Wood Krutch
Photos from my January Visit to Savegre Hotel, San Gerardo de Dota:
Resplendent Quetzal Male & Unidentified Flower
¡Pura Vida!
“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
~JIMMY CARTER
Sunrise & Flower Shots from my February
Visit to El Silencio Lodge, Bajos del Toro
¡Pura Vida!
HEALTH UPDATE: Today I visited a geriatrics specialist for the first time in my life at my surgeon’s request “to make sure I’m healthy enough for surgery.” — I AM! — But in the process I’ve come to appreciate a new specialist whom I really liked and appreciated and who can possibly help me manage my lifestyle for my remaining years better than anyone I’ve talked to yet. Already he has helped me! In addition to approving me for surgery! 
Tomorrow I go for a negative Covid Test and then I’m ready for surgery, I think.
Back home from the latest trip and not all is without color!
My Triquitraque or Flame Vine is possibly at its peak of blooming now and will soon begin to become a green vine again, most commonly blooming here in just January & February, and possibly the brightest or most color of all my flowers . . .
¡Pura Vida!
For more flowers, my Flora & Forest Gallery.
The “Trip Gallery” for last week’s 4 nights at El Silencio Lodge & Reserve in Bajos del Toro, Alajuela, Costa Rica is now completed and ready to visit by clicking the image below or this web address with many photos not yet shared on the blog:
https://charliedoggett.smugmug.com/TRIPS/2021-02-15-20-El-Silencio-Lodge
And because I was there just 6 months ago, last September, and was not having a knee problem, I have even more photos in THAT FIRST TRIP GALLERY, especially more waterfalls! Just click the gallery title below to see it . . .
2020 September 14-19 — El Silencio Lodge & Reserve
The joy of being “Retired in Costa Rica!”
¡Pura Vida!
And my first afternoon walk was cut short because the clouds literally moved in as shown in earlier post with a sort of mist, not exactly rain, but my camera was getting wet and time to go in! See all 8 photos from the walk . . .
Also called in Spanish: Tango, chiltote, chorro de oro, and San Carlos.
In English, most commonly called the Flame Vine
As in the clatter of a train going down the track
As in a string of firecrackers popping
As in jumping jack
OR
The first definition of triquitraque in the dictionary of the real academy of the Spanish language is noise as of repeated and disordered blows. Another meaning of triquitraque in the dictionary is those same hits.
I wish someone would tell me! Maybe the scattered bright flowers along a vine reminds someone of a string of firecrackers exploding? Or a visual clatter? Please comment if you know!
¡Pura Vida!
Check out this National Geographic Traveler Article online listing Costa Rica as #2 on their list of Best of the World: eight sustainable destinations for 2021 and beyond.
The above photo is one of mine from Drake Bay since Nat Geo used their Drake Bay photo and I think mine is just about as good! It’s sunrise from Aguila de Osa Lodge and the full post online also has my Drake Bay snorkeling photo.
And for those email recipients who won’t click the magazine link above, I copied the CR part of the article into my full blog post on my site, just click below . . .
Continue reading “Costa Rica: “Best of the World!””
Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.
~Leonardo da Vinci
A photo from San Gerardo de Dota that I liked and didn’t include in my flower post. Sometimes it’s the little things that impress me the most, yet often get overlooked like this diminution of light.
¡Pura Vida!
