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My profession is to always find God in nature.
– Henry David Thoreau
Each morning I walk through my garden and then eat breakfast on my terrace. Today I liked:
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| Overlooking my house on a cloudy sunset around 5:15. “And all is well on the western front!” 🙂 Yep, the sun shines from between 5 & 5:30 AM to the same in PM Every day, year around – 12 hours of dark & 12 hours of light! Nice! That’s because we are close to the equator. Same sunrise/sunset daily. |
And to my fellow Americans, forgive me for saying I was ashamed last night. The election did not go the way I thought was best, but God just may have something much better in store for us! So today I posted on Facebook the following quote and Scripture verse that better reflects my faith:
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| “God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble. So we will not fear when earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea.” Psalm 41:1 |
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| Banded Skipper Butterfly On the outside of my neighbor’s window screen. A better specimen and view than one I showed earlier inside my house. |
See also my BUTTERFLY & MOTH PHOTO GALLERY
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| Hoffman’s Woodpecker Female In my garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica A little better photo than one posted the other day. |
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| White-Ringed Flycatcher In My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| White-Ringed Flycatcher In My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
And my BIRDS GALLERY online
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| Unknown Moth Inside my house, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
See also my two “bugs” galleries:
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| Blue-crowned Motmot In My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Blue-crowned Motmot In My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
The other day I told about missing a photo of a motmot, well at breakfast today I got one. Not my best shot with the cool tail partially hidden, but okay to be behind some leaves.
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| Female Hoffman’s Woodpecker My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Female Hoffman’s Woodpecker My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
See my BIRDS PHOTO GALLERY
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| Many Pass Through this Dead Tree at end of my terrace. Yesterday I had no camera when two Keel-billed Toucans stopped momentarily & then up the hill! and a few days ago A Blue-crowned Motmot landed in this same tree, briefly! Links are to one of my photos of that same bird made elsewhere. |
I think the toucans were looking at my Cecropia Tree (Arbole Guarumo o Yagrumo) which is suppose to attract toucans. So far that is as close to the Cecropia as I have seen them yet. Eventually! Pura Vida!
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| The Cecropia or Guarumo o Yagrumo Tree beside my terrace (a deck in the states). And remember that I put Spanish words/names in red (when I remember). 🙂 Toucans love this tree, but mine is still young, so eventually it will get toucans. |
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| On the hill behind my neighbor’s house he has this very full, lush garden that is more than camera shows! Anthony has spent a lot of time and money making this full hillside garden next door. |
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| And by his front door this nice garden in front of my house. |
Anthony is a good neighbor for many reasons and his gardens are certainly one of those! Together we keep our landlord’s property looking good and we both use the same gardener to keep our yards up. If you live in Atenas, it is J&C Gardens or contact me to get the phone number or email address. We think they are very good.
Yes, this is the Anthony who made the garden-art clay bird in my garden though he does not have anything similar in his garden yet. He will eventually.
And there is my under construction FLORA & FORESTS photo gallery if interested.
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| Banded Skipper (Same one as two days ago) Inside my house, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
The one I posted two days ago (repeated below) that was on my living room screen is this same one above I believe. I found this one on the floor below the screen today. Many butterflies have short lives like that. But this view makes him look a lot different with the orange and white back wings showing. The white bars across the upper wings still make him like a banded skipper, but none in the books match nor any online. It is frustrating to not be able to label him! So maybe a new species?
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| Banded Skipper (I think) Inside my house, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
I lightened or brightened this second photo which was a dark as the first right out of camera. But you can see the markings are the same on his upper wings.
See my photo gallery of Costa Rica BUTTERFLIES