Tricolor Field, near Silverton, Oregon, July 2011

Tricolor Field, near Silverton, Oregon, July 2011

Fields of flowers civer the rolling hillside of a flower farm outside of the the town of Silverton, on the way to Stayton-Sublimity, in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

Hanging Bridge, Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012

Hanging Bridge, Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012

One of the distinctive features of Monteverde (now much imitated) is a bridge over a deep valley which allows visitors to walk by trees at the canopy level, seeing the plants that would normally be far above our heads.