Before moving to Atenas, I gorged on Texas grapefruit which were just coming into season before our move. I had heard that I would not be able to find good grapefruits in Costa Rica. Imagine my surprise when I saw freshly picked red flesh grapefruits at the local grocery store the other day. I purchased three since they were very reasonably priced and crossed my fingers that they would taste as delicious as they looked. Additionally, the store had some very nice fresh blueberries at a comparable price to our grocery store in Texas.
Indeed, the grapefruits were very tasty and sweet. Furthermore, I discovered the mandarins on the trees in the adjacent orchard to our rent home here were ripening faster than expected. I picked a few and sampled a couple of them. Very tasty! Lemons are not to be found here, but you can find limes and another citrus similar in appearance to a lime, but that is yellow inside and very tangy like a lemon. I used one to make Greek salad dressing the other day and could not distinguish between using a lemon. Since we have a tree loaded with those types of lime/lemons I will be using them extensively.
I also spotted what appears to be a woodpecker having some orange juice in the orchard and was able to snap a picture of it.
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