HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
¡Pura Vida!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
Happy Valentines Day!
From my garden to you with nature’s red, heart-shaped flower, the Anthurium, Anthurium andraeanum (linked to Wikipedia). It is native to Central and South America and has many common names in English such as anthurium, tailflower, flamingo flower, pigtail plant, and laceleaf. They bloom year-around in my garden and in a pot on my terrace where these photos were made.
¡Pura Vida!
Happy Valentines Day!
Anthropomorphic Valentines?
So on this February 14 I will give these two butterflies human emotions and suggest that the one flying is saying “Please be my valentine!” :-)
They are both Banded Peacocks with male and female looking alike, so I can’t say for sure what the one flying around the other is doing, but it kind of makes a Valentines Day image! :-)
And a closeup of the one I’m treating as the female . . .
Continue reading “Anthropomorphic Valentines?”El Copal Nature & Happy Valentines Day!
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| A Valentine from Nature Photographed along a road or trail in the El Copal Area, Costa Rica |
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| Or maybe you prefer an Exotic Wild Flower for Valentines El Copal Area, Costa Rica |
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| Reventazón River Valley El Copal Area, Costa Rica |
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| One of Many Tributaries El Copal Area, Costa Rica |
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| My Guide Cristhian Ureña Martinez El Copal Area, Costa Rica |
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| More FlowersEl Copal Area, Costa Rica |
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| More Flowers El Copal Area, Costa Rica |
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| More Flowers El Copal Area, Costa Rica |
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| Mosses and Ferns of the Cloud Forest El Copal Area, Costa Rica |
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| A Horse Farm Where We Found Birds El Copal Area, Costa Rica |
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| A Horse Farm Where We Found Birds El Copal Area, Costa Rica |
Nature is the art of God.
¡Pura Vida!
This exact same set of photos in my TRIPS photo gallery: El Copal Area Scenery
And related is the gallery El Copal 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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TINY SERENDIPITIES KEEP ME SMILING
On the bus to Alajuela Monday a Tica mother with little girl about a year to 18 months old sat down in the seat next to me. The little girl kept looking at me and finally reached out and touched my arm and smiled. (Yes I had already said “Hola” and smiled at her, but she was slow responding.)
Later after mother and child got off the bus, an older man in the seat in front of me began playing his harmonica and quietly singing a beautiful, tranquil song in Spanish. ¡Pura vida!
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
Bryant H. McGill
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JURASSIC PARK?
ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWS ARTICLE:
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| Isla del Coco, Costa Rica |
This is our island in the Pacific Ocean that is similar to Galápagos Islands of Ecuador without
tourism. It is a national park and research center and many say is more significant scientifically than the Galápagos Islands. (Darwin missed it!) It is also the island that the fictitious dinosaur project was on in the movies of the Jurassic Park. See this brief YouTube video of THE REAL JURASSIC PARK for a 57 second glimpse of the real island.
An Expensive Charter Scuba Diving Yacht trip to the island (See their cool video!)
The island is 300 miles offshore and you sleep on the yacht and scuba dive around the island in the largest colony of sharks in the world! They let you on the island for brief day trips from the yacht but no nights there. Not a regular tourist spot! It costs 3 to 5 k per person for a minimum number of people on different boats for 7 days and just the shore excursion to the island costs $250 to $500 depending on which boat you are on! Cost includes bus from San Jose airport to Puntarenas dock.
A Costa Rica Journeys Article about the island
UNESCO World Heritage Site I would love to see it, but doubt that will ever happen!
¡Pura Vida!