Author: doug

If you were to take the ficus tree in your typical office or hotel lobby and let it grow for 300 years, you’d get something that looks like this.

We saw our first monkeys of the trip today. This guy looks like he’s having a rough time of it.

Cattle egrets are easy to identify.  Sure, you say — they’re white birds, pretty big; so are a lot of birds.  But how many of them hang around with cows?
 
Here’s a flock:

 
Which then landed, proving their identity:

One of the most striking things about the rainforest is the amount of vegetation.  Some of the plants grow with their roots in the air, taking water and nutrients from rainfall.  These are called epiphytes.

This butterfly chysalis looks like it’s made of metal.  It’s not.

Note from Doug: I’m posting a few catch-up items from our trip, a few a day. As is my convention, I’m writing these as if I were writing on the day of the actual photo.

Lis and I are on vacation in Costa Rica.  We are posting to a separate blog and will post the good photos from the trip onto our Gallery once we return, but I’ll post a few good ones here.

Today’s photo is a dried-up fern frond.

The rebuilding process begins.

I spent some quality time with this giant caramel latte this morning. The thought that ran through my brain was “It comes in pints??”

I racked the Happy Monk to secondary tonight.
 

 (note for those following on Facebook or RSS: yes, this is an out-of-order picture I forgot to post.)