Back from paradise

We've been away for a week of nature therapy, something to preserve our sanity during a stormy and very cold winter. By mid Febuary I am so starved for greenery and flowers I think I could walk south. It was our anniversary trip to Puerto Rico, staying in a quiet spot in the foothills of the rain forest mountains, but just a quick drive to the warm listerine-blue Carribean.

I loved just stepping out of the cottage door into lush vegetation with the freshest sweetest grapefruit, oranges, bananas, papayas, and gorgeous flowers everywhere.
(http://www.coquishideaway.com/)



In the evenings, sitting on the balcony we were serenaded by a chorus of tiny singing coquis frogs, chirping birds, a host of chirruping insects, but no biting ones, no mosquitos, hens muttering, goats calling, a rooster challenging....like the day is so full of life it doesnt want to shut down.

The rain forest mountains rose to magnificent heights just behind us, I can close my eyes and still see the rich rich greens of the tropical vegetation and soaring trees, some a thousand years old. Hibiscus grew wild through the forests as well as a much larger version of the impatiens we are familiar with.





The damp earthy scent of the forest and its hidden secrets to discover and explore drew us back day after day. We sought out the little known trails and found wild places like a natural garden of Eden, a new adventure every day.



You can feel like you're the only people on a peaceful earth in such a place.

for the rest of the week's photos :

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