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At breakfast this morning I just zoomed out a little further for some additional trees that are blooming now. Sorry I didn’t do it earlier when there where some bright orange trees and yellow trees, but I think I’ve shown them before and they are somewhere in my gallery called Flora & Forest Costa Rica, if you want more! 🙂
“They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.”
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¡Pura Vida!
With rain and clouds every afternoon and early evening we haven’t had much of a sunset this week but tonight was a good teaser!
“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.”
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I was so busy photographing birds off my terrace and the above sunset that I haven’t had time to present the other shots from Whale Watching – but will eventually! 🙂 See more of my sunset photos in my VISTAS, BEACHES, SUNRISES, SUNSETS Photo Gallery.
Good Night from Cristal Ballena
This trip gallery: 2019-September 13-21–Cristal Ballena, Uvita
¡Pura Vida!
This morning after breakfast on the terrace I walked through my garden searching for butterflies (got only one) and instead was attracted to the many shapes, colors and textures in my garden (as I often am) – a gallery of modern art! Of Nature as Art! Enjoy what I saw through the slide show this morning:
Nature is the art of God.
~Dante Alighieri
For More “Nature as Art” see my gallery: Charlie Doggett’s COSTA RICA or to specifically find more like these, check out the sub gallery of the above main gallery called: Flora & Forest Costa Rica.
And from my galleries you can download the digital files for free (down pointing arrow at bottom of enlarged image) or buy prints or wall art of the images (Click “Buy” button).
¡Pura Vida!
Well . . . my goal for today was to photograph a toucan and a macaw. Goal accomplished! Plus some other colorful creatures before, during an after breakfast, with several butterflies included and a most interesting blue-winged insect on my breakfast table! Remember, nearly all restaurants in Costa Rica are alfresco! Enjoy my photos from Villa Caletas today.
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Color is like the finishing touch on everything.”
~Marc Jacobs
See all my butterflies in my Costa Rica Butterflies Photo Gallery!
Or all photos from this trip at 2019 Villa Caletas, Jaco Photo Gallery
¡Pura Vida!
My breakfast treat on my terrace this morning was this pair of Crimson-fronted Parakeets passing through on their way up the hill – most usually fly over rather than stop. They first started pecking into the trunk of my big palm but the Clay-colored Thrushes with a nest in that tree chased them away to my neighbor’s big palm where I made these photos. Here’s just 5 of many shots made:
I still get more excited by the more colorful birds like these.
“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.”
~Wassily Kandinsky
You might also enjoy the other birds in my BIRDS Photo Gallery
¡Pura vida!
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| Can you see it? In the fork of the guarumo tree on the distant hill. Red-orange. It is a spot of color I see every time I walk out on my terrace and it brings a smile. It is an African Tulip Tree I’m glad a neighbor planted! Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| It is a tree like this one by our front gate in Roca Verde, African Tulip Tree, native of Africa and brought here as an ornamental tree for yards that adds new color to the many natural colors here. Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| And a little closer. |
See my photo gallery: Flora & Forest
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| Music is the best cure for a sorrowing mind. Latin Proverb |
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| The brilliant orange flowers of Triquitraque or Flame Vine is a great contrast to the blue Plumbago flowers. I saturated the color so they’re not really this red, but are a deeper orange than next untouched photos. |
If I remember correctly they will bloom 2 to maybe 3 months, February-April. I had hoped for year around blooms like some of my other plants, but this gives me something special for this time of year. And this year they cover more of my stark concrete wall, which is what I wanted! 🙂 ¡Me gusta!
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| You don’t have to be in the parade to enjoy it! |
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| Two boys who watched the parade across from me. |
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| Watchers wear traditional clothing too! |
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| Reluctantly in the parade. |
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| Papa helps me see the parade better! |
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| Carrying School Sign |
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| A Tiny Watcher in Costume |
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| Primary School Girls love to dress up! |
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| And boys love to play the drums! |
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| And there were many drummers! |
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| Role-playing a Farmer |
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| And watching dressed as a farmer! |
See All of the 2016 Independence Day Parade Photos in one place in my gallery.
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| I went for birds and photographed many plus a whole lot more! 🙂 And yes, we have lots of beaches this un-crowded on both coasts. How can you not love it here? |