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.

At the Canopy Layer, Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012

At the Canopy Layer, Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012

The bridge at the canopy layer reveals philodendrons, ferns, orchids, and other plants, all competing for precious real estate on an avocado tree.

Dragonfly on a Solanaceae, Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012

Dragonfly on a Solanaceae, Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012

A small black-and-red dragonfly hangs onto what I believe is some kind of Solanum sp.. Our guide gave a name, but I have forgotten it. I do recall him saying that the berries are used by natives as a stomach cure, but that one would have to be really sick to make the disease worse than the cure in this case.