Scarlet Ibis - Belém

Born dustless

Six months without a drop of rain on a dirt road produces a lot of dust.  This flower, Lilly family, is a "new-born", thus fresh and dustless.

Desert Tour?

Not a drop of rain since July of this year!  It's enough to make me cry!

Howler Monkey

The howler monkeys are screaming, where's thee rain?  Six months without a drop of rain.  At least the howlers are equipped to get away from the dust of the road and they find food in one form or another up in the trees.

Wild fig tree and fruit on the ground.

Footbridge reconstructed

The dry weather left our footbridge at Bosque Santa Lúcia high and dry, so we took advantage of the situation to reconstruct all 42 meters of it.  It's been ready for nearly 6 weeks but no rain to inaugurate the structure.  It connects the reception center to the main forested area at the Bosque.  There are times towards the end of the rainy season when the bridge is complely under water.  I've rebuilt it at least five times over the years.  This latest construction is the work of our caretaker, Clelson Teixeira ands brother Clei.

Drought

Ha!  Entrance to the Bosque Lúcia reception enter.  Funny how the picture looks like a black and white shot.  But in reality, it's in full color!  The dust has settled in to make it look like black and white!

Drought continues

I took this photo of the road that passes next to Bosque Santa Lúcia just day before yesterday.  Yes, that's dust ... and plenty of it.  It hasn't rained a drop since July.  There's some prediction that it might rain in the next week.  Please!

Muiratinga tree

No, it's not a pertrfied penis, it's a fallen branch of the muratinga tree.  What would appear to be the head of the penis is actually the socket of the branch that was embedded in the trunk of the tree.

At Bosque Santa Lúcia

Bee nest

Bee nest build inside a termite nest on a Brazil nut tree.  The locals refer to the nest as a cow's ass.

Pousada Palo Alto

Chácara de Paulo e Zilma

Euphorbia

Palms

Croton

Plane's late

Coming into the Sun

Sky High

Chácara de Zilma

Chácara de Zilma

Acerola fruit

Frog hiding out

Imperial palm trunk

Much of Nothing

Dried flowers

Somebody's ladder

Chácara Zilma / Paulo

Piracema Fish Restaurant - Santarém - Pará - Brasil

Construction in the sky

Ant on wild flower

Another allamanda

Papaya tree in my backyard

Backyard flower

Bosque Santa Lúcia

Hibiscus purple

My best friend

Dragonfly

Chácara de Zilma

Termites

Old manioc press

Moss on Imperial Palm

Wasp nest

Alamanda in the sky

Ixora yellow

Alamanda bud

Jeniparana seed-pods

Chácara Pouso Alto

Spring down