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Snow!

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Well, this happened.

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Rockefeller Center, 2013

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This katydid was on the car for 20 miles.

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Walnut-Mandibled Toucan

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Lake Arenal in Costa Rica

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The skies they were ashen and sober;

The leaves they were crispèd and sere—

The leaves they were withering and sere:

—from Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe

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Conjurer

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The Highest Mountain

On the trip back from Monteverde we came to what I think was the highest point in all our driving through the mountains, and what appears to be the highest point for as far as the eye can see.

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Golden Orb Weaver Spider

These things are all over Costa Rica. They're not particularly menacing, but they are gigantic and they do make vast cities of three dimensional webs where MANY of them live together.

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Sunset From a Mountaintop in Uvita

Josey and I decided to walk up to the top of the mountain that our house was on, so we could see the sunset. We had precious little time to make it back to the house before it got dark and that's when we got lost. By the way, mountains in Costa Rica are not well-lit after dark and it takes about 30 seconds for the spiders to drape webs across everything.

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This Vexing Butterfly

This blue morpho butterfly has brilliant blue wings when it's flying. When it sees a camera, however, it stops flying and sits on a leaf until the camera goes away.

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Farm on Lake Arenal

Josey and I pulled off the road and ran up onto this farm outside Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica.

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What Looks Like a Smile to You is Actually two Arms Coming Out of My Mouth

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Volcán Arenal

I was pretty certain that Arenal Volcano was going to erupt upon my arrival, despite the repeated assurances of various Costa Ricans that it was "inactive." It didn't, and it also had a thick, heavy layer of clouds around it that wouldn't let go. I got as much distance as I could, and found that from the right vantage, an inactive volcano shrouded in clouds wasn't so disappointing after all.

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Lizards Are Inscrutable

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Josey and I contemplating infinity the way we do