“Window-Seat-Shade”

“Dayshade”

“Nightshade”

“Hang Time”

“Together on the Sand: You Are My Sunshade Edition”

“Together on the Sand”

“Escher-entric Staircase”

“Acute”

“Hang 5”

“Outpost”

“Coil”

“Parrot on a Stick”

On the drive to Corcovado National Park our guide from Ficus Tours, Jenkins, pointed out an adult and adolescent Caracara (a type of falcon) perched on a roadside fence. As we slowly drove past I snapped photos, all the while hearing a loud cawing sound that didn’t appear to be coming from either of the birds on the fence. That’s when I noticed a rustling in the grass at the bottom of the fence and saw a second adult Caracara looming with lethal intent over a grounded parrot.

To our great relief, Jenkins said we should intervene since this was a highly unusual situation, and not a very ‘natural’ one since it was taking place at the edge of a farm field rather than the nature preserve.

The Caracaras flew away as we approached. Jenkins managed to coax the parrot onto a stick and transfer it to safe perch across the road in a tree on the edge of a dense forest filled with the calls of other parrots.

“Black Holes Aren’t the Only Objects That Can Bend the Fabric of Space-Time”

“Downward Spiral”

“Laundry Day”

“Sundown Ya Better Take Care”

“Drifting Through Life”

“Paradise Lost…and Found”

“Triangulate”

“Double Rainbow”

“Red Roofs Are IN in Costa Rica”