Category: Environment

Is there something wrong with me?

This spider monkey reminded me of myself. On the many days I am depressed, alone among friends (this one was in the Belize Zoo). He or she looks old, maybe a little ill too. But the eyes, told me all. The photo is from… Continue Reading “Is there something wrong with me?”

Maya medicine

To celebrate my finally registering the domain name, something I am still proud of naming, I will write about something simple yet complicated: how people devised to use plants as medicine has always fascinated me. While no doubt Ayurvedic medicine is perhaps the most… Continue Reading “Maya medicine”

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Paused for thought: Birds of Costa Rica

Here are some of the birds we saw in CR, these look like they were in the middle of a thought..

Where butterflies come from: CR and caterpillars

  There are thousands of species of butterflies in Costa Rica. Apparently 90% of the butterflies of Central and South America can be found there! Photographed beautifully by many photographers. The number of blue morphos that accompanied us down and up every trail we… Continue Reading “Where butterflies come from: CR and caterpillars”