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| Nesting Inca Dove On palm frond of small palm in my yard, Atenas, Costa Rica |
Honestly I don’t see how it can last very long with all the heavy winds we have been having, but birds can be tenacious! We will see. I have much more stable trees you could have used!
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| I continue to love my garden! |
No new birds or other nature photos to share in last couple of days, just slowing down and relaxing a little since I was getting low on energy and not feeling my best. But tomorrow I go with a group of expats to San Jose for the Little Theater again for a play titled “Little Wars” by Steven Carl McCasland, that takes place in 1940 based on a real dinner party with 6 well-know women at the time: Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, Agatha Christie, Alice B. Toklas, and Muriel Gardiner. (I get to see what women talk about when they have too much to drink!) Then we go out to eat at a nice restaurant.
I’ve also been busy planning future birding trips:
In March: Rio Celeste Waterfall & Cañon Negro on Rio Frio, staying at Celeste Mountain Lodge. where there are many birding trails on their property (4 nights). Getting there and back on public bus.
In May: Drake Bay and Corcovado National Park. Staying at the Aguila de Osa Rainforest Lodge (5 nights). Getting there and back on small public plane.
In July: A return visit to a pure birding lodge, Rancho Naturalista near Turrialba, Costa Rica, in the shadow of the active Turrialba Volcano (4 nights). Getting there and back on public bus.
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| PURA VIDA! |
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| Flowering “Mother-in-law Tongue” plant In my neighbor’s yard Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Flowering “Mother-in-law Tongue” plant In my neighbor’s yard Atenas, Costa Rica |
My plant like this is in a pot in my bathroom, so I guess it is not as likely to bloom as these that are outside getting sunshine and rain. Interesting! My first time to ever see this plant bloom. I did not know that they had flowers!
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| The Greenest & Happiest Country! |
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| Lineated Woodpecker In my garden, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica I was thrilled that he was just 2 meters off my deck! AND in the open! (for less than a minute!) I have several shots of this species, but this is best! One at Rancho Naturalista was previous best. And I had a Fair Shot in Panama |
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| Lineated Woodpecker In tree in my garden, Atenas, Costa Rica This “Peek-a-boo” sighting behind leaves is often all I get. Still makes me happy! |
See my photo gallery of Birds photos made since I moved to Costa Rica. This gallery shows you my number one motivation for moving to and retiring in Costa Rica. I love the birds here!
Well, the capital city was interesting even with seeing on a small portion, but that is all the photos for now and I’m ready to get back to nature, enough of this city stuff! And I’ve got a good photo to share tomorrow, shot right here in my own garden, by best shot yet of one particular species. See ya’ tomorrow!
See also my Photo Gallery on San Jose
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| After School in the Park with Skateboards San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Fresh Fruit & Veggies on Every Corner San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| And Sometimes In the Street! San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Many Pedestrians Everywhere! San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Old Man American Tourist Watches Tico Teen Skateboarder Walk By San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Children Play in Fountain Plaza de Cultura San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Feeding Pigeons in Every Park! San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Clowns Sell Facepainting San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Indigenous People Music San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| And Vendors Everywhere! San Jose, Costa Rica |
My Photo Gallery on San Jose
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| Claro TV/Internet Building
San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| National Theater or Teatro Nacional
San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Unknown Building
San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Unknown Building
San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Historic Old Post Office Building
San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Unknown Building
San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Unknown Building
San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Historic Metal School Building
San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Charlie’s Restaurant
San Jose, Costa Rica |
My Photo Gallery of many San Jose shots might interest you.
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| Iglesia de Barrio Mexico San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Iglesia de Barrio Mexico Inside San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Iglesia de la Merced San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| First Baptist Church San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| El Carmen Iglesia San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| El Carmen Iglesia San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| El Carmen Iglesia San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Catedral Metropolitana San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Catedral Metropolitana San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Parroquia Nuestra Senora De La Dolorosa San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Parroquia Nuestra Senora De La Dolorosa San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Iglesia de la Soledad San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Iglesia de la Soledad San Jose, Costa Rica |
With some backtracking this was probably more than 6 kilometers of walking on the hot sidewalk and even with good shoes and two pair of socks, my feet were hot when I returned. I also photographed some other beautiful old building and one colorful modern art painted building. I will share these another day and maybe some people or other shots. Now I collapse. Tired.
My Photo Gallery of Costa Rica Churches has more church photos if interested, and the San Jose gallery has more photos of San Jose.
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| Holiday Inn Downtown San Jose My room is on the 16th floor, with only the 17th floor Dining Room above me. San Joe, Costa Rica |
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| I mainly look south with fewer tall buildings, but parts of sunrise/sunset. San Joe, Costa Rica |
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| Temple of Music in Morazan Park across the street San Joe, Costa Rica |
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| “Kissing Statue” Is another thing Morazan Park is known for. San Joe, Costa Rica |
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| 1890 Escuelas Graduadas, famous metal school building San Joe, Costa Rica |
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| 1890 Escuelas Graduadas, famous metal school building San Joe, Costa Rica This is one block from hotel and my check-in desk clerk Javier went to school here and was proud that I photographed it. |
This metal school building of course reminded me of the metal church building in Grecia, Costa Rica I shared it back in 2015. See a photo of that equally unusual church building in my gallery.
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| Museum of Modern Art?? Well, that was one name and there was some, but it was mostly a children’s art museum with a few adult works in one of 4 galleries. Disappointing. San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| I did like this adult installation, for the color in Museum of Modern Art. San Jose, Costa Rica |
In the first gallery, there was a lot of clothing designed in CR, some book covers designed here, and a few other adult-made installations like the umbrellas above. The other three galleries were all work of school children interpreting life on other planets. Those galleries probably rotate or change and I suspect that some of the schools of design here display their work from time to time. So I will check their website before I go again to see what I’m getting into!
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| Children Play in Water Fountain Plaza of Culture San Jose, Costa Rica NOTE: After I made this image, a security guard came up to me and said something like, “I’m sorry sir but we do not allow making photos of children here. Please stop.” I stopped and was amazed! Interesting! The security of children here is very important! |
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| Feeding Pigeons Is an activity in every park in Costa Rica, by all ages. San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| The National Theater or Teatro Nacional Beside the Plaza of Culture San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Flutist Statue at the National Theater San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Clowns Sell Face-painting Plaza of Culture San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| Indigenous People Music On sidewalk across from Plaza of Culture San Jose, Costa Rica |
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| And You Can Buy CD of the Indigenous MusicOn sidewalk across from Plaza of Culture San Jose, Costa Rica |
Big city life is always colorful and interesting anywhere in the world. No exception here!
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| “Happy Hour” By Holiday Inn in a 15th floor corner room watching the sunset. Lots of free snack food and drinks was my dinner after a big lunch! And that building above is Banco Nacional, my Costa Rica bank. San Jose, Costa Rica |
And I made loads of photos of interesting old buildings on the streets I walked today. I may eventually add them to my San Jose or other photo gallery at Charlie Doggett’s COSTA RICA. This city has lots of interesting things to photograph! Tomorrow I start with old historic churches and then see what happens after that. This is almost as much fun as the real jungles, though I like their animals better! 🙂
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| I called it “Walking Grass,” but really it’s a green Walking Stick insect My Terrace, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
I’ve seen several of these all over Costa Rica but so far all have been brown more like a stick. But this one is green and all the websites indicate it is the same bug! 🙂 Cool!
SUPER BOWL CHAMPION IN COSTA RICA
Did you know that Tom Brady has a house in Costa Rica?
http://www.liveincostarica.com/blog/2017/02/costa-rica-has-a-super-bowl-champion.htmlhttp://www.liveincostarica.com/blog/2017/02/costa-rica-has-a-super-bowl-champion.html
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| Tom and Giselle are in the small Pacific coast town of Santa Teresa. Neighbors have included Leonardo DeCaprio, Robert Plant, Matthew McConaughey and Liam Hemsworth, to name a few. |
They are not the kind of expats I run into in the Atenas supermercados, but you might if you lived in Santa Teresa. 🙂
Tomorrow I’m headed to downtown San Jose for two days to make photos in the “Concrete Jungle” of Costa Rica and hoping for a lot of nice photos (of something other than birds!). . It will be totally different from my other trips! 🙂
