travel

where I’ve been…(return home)

Cars

This '63 Dodge Dart is the same model and color as my first car.

This ’63 Dodge Dart is the same model and color as my first car. Click to enlarge.

’63 powder-blue Dodge Dart
slant-six engine, push-button transmission
that my father gave me in 1970.

Volvo 122s Wagon I bought with a hundred dollars cash
and twenty-five dollars in food stamps.

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a side-striped palm viper

To me, this snake represents beauty, danger, and serendipity. The beauty of its colors, how it weaves itself into the foliage, how it waits with absolute patience. Danger in how it senses the heat of an animal, strikes in less time than a blink, injects deadly venom into its prey. The serendipity that put me in the right time and place to take this photo.

 

A Side-striped Palm Viper in Monteverde, Costa Rica.

The Side-striped Palm Viper, one of Costa Rica’s 23 poisonous snakes. Click to enlarge.

 

The Story:

Exhausted after hiking in the Cloud Forest since early morning, Continue reading