Farmer's Market Friday

Felt our first earthquake yesterday.  We were not sure if it was our creaky bed frame since Mike was putting on his shoes at the bed and I was sitting on the other side of the bed getting ready to take the dog outside.....we felt the bed moving, but the earthquake was not confirmed until later when we read about it online.

I have also been duly corrected about the night/early morning temperatures!  While it has been around 73 degrees indoors during the morning, Mike, who gets up much earlier than I said that it is not 73 degrees outside, but rather more like 66 degrees or so.  Maybe tomorrow I will get ambitious and get up  at 5:30 am since it is already daylight and join him for a cup of great Costa Rican coffee and bring my alarm clock with the temp reading on it outside to determine exactly how cool the ambient temperature is during the early morning.  By the way, we are NOT drinking that $7.00 per cup Geisha Costa Rican coffee now offered at select Starbucks in the USA!  Since the hubby says we are on a budget, I advised him he would have to forgo the organic coffee too, since we needed to purchase a new doggie bed for Taco.  The coffee here though is spectacularly good...guess it should be since coffee is grown all around us here, including in Atenas.

I do know there are a lot more birdies out in the early morning.  As we prepared to head downtown to the farmer's market around 6:30 am, I spotted a red and black woodpecker.  I tried to capture a pic of it on my new 24x zoom camera.  Will see if it turned out well enough to share.

We purchase several tropical fruits and veggies at the market...took a picture as well of the bounty we brought home (see pic) which included passion fruit, avocados, papaya, bananas, pineapple, guavas, and  some hearts of palm.  The hearts of palm taste like a bit like corn and make a crunchy addition to a salad.

One last thought, while we do not see tons of Christmas decorations like we would in the USA, there a tons of beautiful red Poinsetta bushes blooming everywhere (not in pots, but in the ground!)  that remind us of the holiday season.