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Transcript of Costa Rica
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Our Costa Rica Trip 2006
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SERENITY FOUND IN THE FLORA
ORCHIDS ABOUND
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Isn't nature amazing?
simple and beautiful
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...just happened upon these orchids while trekking.
"Will you look at the size of these leaves!"
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Shape, texture, color and symmetry
Cocoa pods (No, I didn't say Cocoa Puffs!)
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Dainty little bells and branches
Knarly lookin'
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Fuzzy and soft to the touchA beautiful heliconia
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...and they just hang from dead-looking twigs
Alien space fruit
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Fragile mushrooms sitting on a bed of moss
...and this is just the bottom of the tree
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Even rocks by the water hide special delights!
I'm a hobbit.
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Waiting for little bees to come ring our little bells
Pathway into the jungle
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EPIPHYTES ARE WAY COOL
Look at all the bees on this lovely ginger!
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See what I mean about all the textures!
Check out the root system!
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...and white flowers emerge from yellow flowers
EPIPHYTES
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Flowers of the Ylang Ylang - what a fragrance the leaves have!!
Gonna run through the jungle!
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What are these strange little pods?
...and now a white flower bursts forth from a red
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OUR VIEW FROM THE RESTAURANT
"I WANT ONE OF THOSE IN MY YARD!" exclaims Christine.