“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” — Claude Monet
See more in my GALLERY: Leaves & Nature Things! Which I consider as one of my “Photo Art Galleries.” 🙂
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Simple Nature as Art
Garden Walk
Yes, I know, I’ve done this post before, several times, but every time the flowers are different and I see or photograph them differently. And this time it is a collection of favorite shots from the previous few weeks, late March and early April. Below this one shot for the email version is a gallery of 18 photos, all different flowers and species repeated only when each flower is quite different. Enjoy God’s beautiful jewels from my tropical Costa Rica garden 🙂 . . .
Cecropia
I never tire of photographing this tree that I planted in 2015.
- A Cecropia Tree GALLERY
- A Trees GALLERY
- My Home Garden GALLERY
- All my Flora & Forest GALLERIES
- And there just may be a future photo book of all the birds I have photographed in this very same Cecropia Tree! I never stop having fun with nature! 🙂
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The Gratifying Guarumo!
It is definitely one of my favorite trees in Costa Rica, if for no other reason, an opportunity to photograph their beautiful leaves, both dead and alive as in this photo. They attract many birds from the tiny Euphonias to the Toucans and their openness makes them great “galleries” for photographing birds and sloths! Some of my best bird photos were made in the Guarumo or Cecropia Tree that I planted in my yard the first year here, 2015.
I have them pictured in several popular photo galleries:
- Guarumo/Cecropia Tree (1,294 visits before today)
- Leaves and Nature Things (329 visits before today)
- Trees (1,864 visits before today)
- And of course in many of my CR Trips! galleries. 🙂
- The number of gallery visits are since February 2022 when the counter was added to my galleries.)
Here’s one shot I made the other day from my terrace . . .
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White-winged Dove . . .
. . . in my Cecropia (Guarumo) Tree.
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See also my White-winged Dove GALLERY.
And for those considering a move to Costa Rica or wondering why I live where I do in the Central Valley, see this short article on a realtor’s website: 7 Reasons to Relocate to Atenas, Costa Rica 🙂
Black-cowled Oriole Eating . . .
I haven’t seen this bird in quite a while, but he was one of about 4 species in my Cecropia Tree the other morning, feeding on the flowers like the toucans sometimes do. And as usual, he was partially hidden by leaves the entire time here! You can see other shots in my Black-cowled Oriole GALLERY showing the same hiding problem always! Except my very first shot here in Costa Rica of one on my window screen inside my house! 🙂 Here’s just two shots . . .
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Juvenile Iguana Sunning
There seems to be more than one juvenile iguana, at different stages of development, living in or near my garden. I think that the main reason they climb my Cecropia/Guarumo Tree is to soak up the sunshine, which all reptiles need as cold-blooded creatures, but as a herbivore, he may also be eating from the leaves and flowers of this tree. The flowers of this tree are also popular with toucans which I’ve photographed in this same tree. Plus the toucans also eat young iguanas! 🙂
See my two Iguana Galleries:
I think these photos are of a Spiny-tailed, but juveniles of both species are similar, so I’m not certain.
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Simplicity
“Nature is pleased with simplicity.”
— Isaac Newton
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Great Kiskadee
In my Cecropia or Guarumo Tree the other day. See more of this common bird here in my Great Kiskadee Gallery.
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