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"Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today." Wise words by Pierre de Ronsard

Mirror Mirror in the Air by mama Sheri Welcome New Subscribers and Pura Vida Blessings to All

This beautiful Congo Monkey photo was caught by Wizard Photographer, Jory Freimann, published here with many thanks. Welcome New...

Something I wanted to share this week after a visit to the US Embassy ... is that if your passport is expiring in the next months or even...

Two thousand fifteen is bustling along at a lickity split pace ... certainly hope you are enjoying it to the fullest (and shaking out all...

We are celebrating what will probably be the last ChayoteVine in this current format. Si Dios quiere, next week we will be introducing...

A warm welcome to the many newcomers to our amazing Southern Zone of Costa Rica ... Our good friend Dennis Garber shared a very useful...

For local folks: my son's technical/environmental colegio is selling tree seedlings at 400 colones each (75 cents). The three species are...

We are very excited to welcome readers to our new Vine ... housed now at our new Pura Vida Connections site. We hope you enjoy it and...

Not sure if it's sunspots or what ... but my internet, which is usually quite chipper, and has been very, very slow and very unreliable...

Loving hearing my Tico neighbors and friends commenting on the very unusual wet times we've been enjoying the last few days ... some...

A while back I shared this video, Grateful: A Love Song to the World and thought it would be the perfect reminder for this week. There...

Warm welcome to the first edition of the Chayotevine for 2015 ... seems like the high winds we've been experiencing lately have blown...

Certainly hope you've been enjoying the changing seasons here ... so different from where most of us came from. That nearly 3am 6.6...

And welcome to our new Readers and Community Friends ... so many spirited visitors and snow birds are back. This transitional time of our...

This is the 'cathedral' in our Central Park of Perez Zeledon ... checking to see when it was renovated. Click here to see some history of...

What an amazing year 2014 has been ... we lost several wonderful friends ... and many lovely new babies joined us too. Sending you warm...

Costa Rica lost a national treasure this week ... one day short of his 69th birthday. Don Alvaro Ugalde Víquez will be mightily missed....

Sure hope you saw the amazing Full Moon last (Tuesday) nite .... it lit the skies for hours with magical energy. As most of you probably...

The weather has been so incredibly beautiful ... certainly hope all our new visitors and locals are enjoying it to the fullest. It is...