A look back on the occasion of my 34th cholera-versary. Quite likely your most enjoyable five-minute read of the day.
Continue readingAbout that time I contracted cholera on the Pan-Am highway.
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A Crab in its Shell, San Blas
A snap of a Caribbean Land Hermit Crab in its shell just before it snapped at me.
Continue readingBeachcombing in the San Blas Islands
Shells, trees and trash.
That’s primarily what you’ll find if you spend any time beachcombing on any of the 370 small islands that make up the San Blas Islands, or Guna Yala, the archipelago off of Panama’s Caribbean coast. Lots of the former and too much of the latter.
Continue reading‘The world should laugh more. But after eating.’
This made me laugh, even though I hadn’t eaten yet.
Continue readingThe Cotacachi Volcano and the Promise of Love
A tale, short and sweet, related to the mythology of this Ecuadorean volcano that pierces the sky nearly 5,000 meters above a village that bears its name.
Continue readingStrolling With Magellanic Penguins on Martillo Island
A visit to an island colony that’s the seasonal home for more than 3,000 pairs of mating Magellanic Penguins.
Continue readingCTV: Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting ‘thank-you gifts’ from other birds
Exactly what the headline says.
“When we are aware of what is happening around us there is so much potential to come together and beautiful things can happen.”
Link.
25 Photos From the Saturday Market in Otavalo, Ecuador
Capturing the never-ending dialogue between the present and the past in South America largest indigenous market.
Continue readingCleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve – an Introduction and May Birding Report
An introduction to one of Cleveland, Ohio’s best kept secrets.
Continue reading20 Cloud Forest Plants From Ecuador’s Mindo-Nambillo Reserve
26 photos of at least 20 different forest plants taken at or near the Mindo-Nambillo Ecological Reserve, near Mindo, Ecuador, a town about 80km northwest of Quito.
Continue readingCali Sunset
A long exposure from a rooftop at sunset.
Continue readingStill Life With a Dozen Dolls, Toquinho, and Mick Jagger’s Primitive Cool, Bogota
With cameos by Angel, The Pet Shop Boys and John Lennon.
Continue readingJesse Owens Statue, Cleveland
Paying our respects to the Olympic and athletics legend during a visit to Cleveland this week.
Continue reading45 Minutes at a Butterfly Farm in Mindo, Ecuador
If you guessed that the Owl butterfly got its name because its massive eyespots resemble an owl’s eyes, you’d be right.
Continue readingAtahualpa on a Bus
Linking 20 generations.
Continue reading49 Raptor Portraits from the Parque Condor in Otavalo, Ecuador
From a visit to a bird rescue and rehabilitation center in Imbabura province, 90km north of Quito.
Continue readingAn Accordion Named Freedom
A street busker and his wife in front of the Centro Cultural Metropolitano in Quito.
Continue readingRivers in the Sky – 45 Seconds of Rosewood Zen
A mental health break courtesy of these beautifully sculpted Rosewoods, or Tipuana Tipu.
Continue readingArbol Bandera, Tierra del Fuego
Trees shaped by the wind. I hugged the one on the right.
Continue readingRostro Sobre Hoja
Face on a leaf.
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