Tropical Quickie

I'm just making a quick update, since I am out taking pics for future posts and don't have time to make a full post. This was from a hike in western coastal Costa Rica a few years back.

 The trees are so big, this buttress was bigger than me

 These two are deadly poison-dart frogs

 A red-eyed tree frog

 A couple of great views of the forest

Chocolate flowers above, and pods below

 Vanilla vine with beans

Tropical flowers are so interesting and diverse

A Day On The Farm

A farm up in the Capay Valley, northwest of Sac, throws an annual Peach Party to celebrate their harvest. What a Party!

Some cool, old farm equipment

A neighbor grows dates (a wonder what an aquifer can produce)

An apple at the front of the home 

Ripe in a couple of months 

There were so many flowers 

Zinnia 

 And bees (echinacea)

 Wisteria

Sunflowers

The star: Peaches

 

They had peach pizza

 

Surprisingly good

And peach salsa 

They showed us how to make apple juice 

Grind them up 

And press 

Fun for the kids 

But unpasteurised 

Peaches drying 

Coated in their own sugar 

So many pits 

Amaranth grew as a weed here

Pomegranate

Lots of citrus, this is a pummelo 

 Squashes

Green beans

Grapes 

old artichokes 

 

 Peaches

From the aquifer 

Not quite ripe pears 

Persimmons 

Apricots 

 This is one of the peach trees, they let them start rotting and they came back very well, while providing all kinds of new habitats for the local wildlife, a tenant of this organic farm