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Monthly Archives: March 2014

More Pretty: Birds, Costa Rica 2014

March 31, 2014by tompostpile Leave a comment

If you like birds, Costa Rica is a good place to go. Here’s a collection of birds seen on the trip.         And a bird many people […]

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2014, Birds, Color, Costa Rica, Hummingbirds, Nature, photograph, Travel

Wishetwurra Farm, Late March, 2014

March 30, 2014by tompostpile Leave a comment

Could the interminable-seeming winter of 2013-2014 be ending at last? This has been winter so cold at times that it killed one of the rosemary plants in the greenhouse. That kind […]

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2014, Gardening, photograph, Wishetwurra Farm

Hawk for Breakfast: Costa Rica 2014

March 29, 2014by tompostpile Leave a comment

How would you like to have hawk for breakfast? This year, during the time we were at “Dos Rios”, in the Southern Zone, we had hawk for breakfast almost every morning. […]

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2014, Birds, Costa Rica, Nature, photograph, Travel, Words

Silhouette Octet: Costa Rica 2014.

March 28, 2014by tompostpile Leave a comment

Silhouettes. The silhouettes in this post are not, as was once sung in the ‘fifties song, “on the shade”, but against the tropical sky. Breakfast time silhouette. For many, the […]

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2014, Birds, Color, Costa Rica, Essay, Nature, photograph, Travel, trees

Flutter by, Butterfly. CR 2014

March 25, 2014by tompostpile Leave a comment

It’s easy to think of a butterfly as a slow-moving flower flitter, but some butterflies can cover ground very quickly. You haven’t seen fast-moving insect until you’ve startled a skipper, […]

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2014, Color, Costa Rica, Nature, photograph, Uncategorized

A glimpse of San José Street Art.

March 24, 2014by tompostpile Leave a comment

One of the pleasures of recurring visits to San Jose is the ever-changing display of street art. There’s lots of the “usual” tagging, and graffiti. Just a can of spray […]

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2014, Art, Color, Costa Rica, Essay, photograph, Travel

San José, CR. Some Pictures from Twenty-Four Minutes and Thirty-Seven Seconds in the Plaza de La Democracia.

March 23, 2014by tompostpile Leave a comment

At one edge of San José, Costa Rica’s Plaza de La Democracia is the City “Artisans’ Market”. On the other, uphill side, is the Muséo Nacional. The Plaza is mostly […]

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Chust for Pretty. Costa Rica 2014

March 21, 2014by tompostpile 4 Comments

Here are a some flowers from Costa Rica to show you. “Chust for pretty.”, as the old Amish farmer is said to have said. I’m not even going to name […]

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2014, Costa Rica, Flowers, Nature, photograph, Travel

Mooing in the Hectares. Costa Rica 2014.

March 20, 2014by tompostpile Leave a comment

As we come in to the place we stay in Costa Rica, we go by this field. It’s a pretty scene. It’s interesting, what history can be behind a few […]

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2014, Costa Rica, Essay, photograph, Travel, trees, Words

Costa Rica 2014: From the Mountain of the Dead to a Peaceful Home.

March 19, 2014by tompostpile 4 Comments

MUSOC, here we come. After our San José night at Casa Ridgway, we go in the morning to the MUSOC bus station, for a ride over the Mountain of Death […]

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2014, Costa Rica, photograph, Travel

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