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| Resident Male Yellow Warbler Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua The one that migrates north has a yellow head, only the resident has red-brown. |
My computer has no more space for me to download more photos from my camera. So I have a problem to solve before I post more. 🙂
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| Yellow-billed Cuckoo My Garden in Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-billed Cuckoo My Garden in Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
This is another “first” bird for me which I saw today in a Yellow Bell Tree by my terrace. I had to share it first! Tomorrow I will explain why I went a week without a post. Then some more catch up!
Yeah, sometimes it is embarrassing to be an American, though so far not as bad as those days in Gambia when Bush was president. But if you guys elect Trump I may go for citizenship here and renounce my American citizenship. Hope not! 🙂
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| The markings are very similar to a deadly Fer de Lance snake. Not positive. On a walk through the neighborhood we saw this on street in front of my house. |
Thought you would like this post the day after my”Al fresco Living” post! 🙂
Panic over a snake does not help anyone. Generally they are more afraid of people than we are of them is my belief. This is only the 4th snake I have seen anywhere in Costa Rica in 18 months! And I have been in several national parks where they are known to be more common. Common sense caution is my preferred way to react to something like this. So far no problem! Hope never! And if one ever does get in my house I will be asking the landlord for a screen door on my garden door. 🙂
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| The terrace is my favorite room, totally outside with roof, so good in rain! |
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| Living Room Dining Room is always open air during the day. The sliding glass doors stay open all day when at home. I close at night. |
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| Inside all windows stay open all the time day and night, They have screens. Every room in the house is like living outside. |
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| And my “front door” or really garden door stays open during the day. There is no screen on it. The sliding doors have sliding screens, seldom used except at night, after dark to before bed when I lock both outside doors. |
Yes, I get lots of bugs! You learn to live with them if you like alfresco living! I’ve had three birds inside the house and they eventually fly out. No other animals yet and I will not worry about snakes. Neighbor dogs are a bigger nuisance! And I have had two of those come in my house.
“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.” –Henry David Thoreau
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| Dragonfly resting on my terrace, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica. I looked through hundreds of photos online and could not identify. |
“Costa Rica is home to more than 500,000 species, which represents nearly 4% of the total species estimated worldwide, making Costa Rica one of the 20 countries with the highest biodiversity in the world. Of these 500,000 species, a little more than 300,000 are insects.
“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Julia Butterfly My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Polydamus Swallowtail My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Statira Sulphur My Garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| The Lehning’s and Charlie at El Restaurante La Carreta, Atenas, Costa Rica |
Finally I get a photo of Tim & Joan Lehning with children Hank, Maggie and David plus me included thanks to our friendly waiter at La Carreta. Tonight, Wednesday Dinner in town at one of my favorite restaurants.
Just for their arrival today, my neighbor and artist friend Anthony Jeroski finished the bird nest for my garden that lovingly holds the glass egg created by another artist friend in Nashville, Kevin Hunter. It goes well with the bird sculpture at the opposite end of the same garden. Is my garden developing a theme? |
| . . . for the sun to bring out their new leaves. Two trees seen from my terrace. The fog always passes. The leaves always return. |