Flora & Forest GALLERIES.
Leaves & Nature Things GALLERY
¡Pura Vida!
Nature’s masterpiece in every leaf . . .
Nature as Contemporary Art
Delicate flower buds, a dead leaf and a huge tree on the hill above my house – just using my imagination and playing with nature in the camera . . .
Whispering from Every Leaf . . .
“There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”
― Dejan Stojanovic
And I have always considered every leaf an individual work of art – O so many beautiful canvases!
Yesterday I was motivated by another blog to go photograph leaves. Below is that collection of 14 “Art Masterpieces” by God Himself! Fourteen totally different leaves in my garden . . .
Continue reading “Whispering from Every Leaf . . .”Mid-day Walk “Leaf Collection”
Tuesday I had a morning doctor’s appointment in San Jose, getting back a little before noon and took a walk on my nearby “Country Lane” extension of 8th Ave. As I entered the road I asked myself, “What can I photograph today?” Almost immediately my eyes fell on a leaf! And so I tried to see how many different leaves I could make photos of with my cellphone. Here are 13 that were accessible and I purposely did not include fern fronds since I did a post on them last week, nor palm fronds because most are too high to reach with my cellphone! 🙂
Here’s one for the email and then you go to the full post for the gallery of 13 leaves!
Learning from a Leaf
In nature everything is always changing and nowhere is that more obvious than in the leaves. Yesterday my attention was grabbed by this small dead leaf curled up in the larger green and very living leaf of a different plant which will soon let it slide on to the ground to renew the life of all the living things around it as the dead leaf becomes nourishment for the other living plants. And what can I learn from this? Maybe about change, like the changes my life continues to surprise me with, and maybe, as this little leaf, I will add nourishment to another life somewhere? 🙂 Learning from nature . . .
“Learn character from trees, values from roots and change from leaves”
– Tasneern Harneed
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For more CR Nature Photos: My Gallery
Rainforest Leaf Art
Every leaf is a work of art and I love trying to capture some of it! There are so many things to see and focus on in the rainforest and sometimes a simple leaf is the best eye candy! Enjoy the slideshow!
More of this rainforest in my TRIP GALLERY: 2019 Maquenque Eco Lodge
Or check out my Flora & Forest photo galleries
And see the lodge website: Maquenque Ecolodge
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Tapanti Park & Scenery
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| Tapanti National Park It is one of the larger parks including most of the Mountain of Death Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Rio Macho Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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| A Bridge we crossed before entering the park Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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| A Huge Exotic Forest of Color and Contrast Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Great Forest for Birding Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Ferns Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Nest of the Red-faced Spinetail Bird (see bird in my birds post yesterday) Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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| One of several Trails We Hiked Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Green! Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
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| Balance in Nature! Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica |
Balance is not something you find,
it’s something you create.
Jana Kingsford
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This exact same set of photos in my TRIPS photo gallery: Tapanti Park & Scenery
And related is the gallery Tapanti Birds in this same TRIPS gallery below
Or see all of my Orosi Trip photos in the TRIP Gallery: 2018-February 6-10–Orosi/Tapanti
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Sometimes I share an interesting English Language Newspaper article, but today they all look interesting! 🙂
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Updates from
Costa Rica Star NewsCosta Rica News In the 02/12/2018 edition: |
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A Golden Leaf
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I picked up this leaf along the side of the road walking home from the bus stop after a trip to Alajuela. It just attracted me, and I felt the need to photograph it with more than my cellphone. (I know, “Get a life Charlie.”) Living slow in Costa Rica, I now pause to “smell the roses” or enjoy the simple beauty of a leaf, its design, shape, colors (front & back totally different), textures, and what was simply pleasing to me.
After getting it home and photographing it, I gave to my artist neighbor Anthony who painted the back side (lighter color) and pressed it on art paper to use as part of the background for one of his bird paintings. Neat, huh? Now I will pay more attention to leaves, for awhile anyway.
For more leaves, shot in Tennessee, see my older Closeups gallery, scrolling down
Or if you want a more spiritual application, see my Gambia Journal Miracle Leaf Stories.
For more leaves in Costa Rica browse through the tree and flower photos in my Flora & Forests gallery with a lot more of the cool leaves here in Costa Rica! It is a nature lover’s paradise in Costa Rica and my today’s find of a “golden leaf” is just a tiny sample of the simple pleasures I find here.
