Rain Forest Flora

Green Giants © 2008 Bo Mackison

Green is greener and grander in a rain forest.

A Central American rain forest located 30 miles south of Belize City in Belize

Snow Plow

Not Your Typical Snow Plow

Not Your Typical Snow Plow

Once a valuable piece of equipment, this field plow;
Now it stands, simply a snow plow.

Back to snow and Wisconsin for a dose of reality before returning to my travel photos of the tropics. (that honestly are depressing me right now.)

Baby, it’s COLD outside. On my recent travels, I was disappointed when the temperature hovered in the low 70s. Now I’d be happy, no – ecstatic, if the thermometer would read above zero.

Avenue of the Palms

© 2008 Bo Mackison

“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not finishing the journey, and not starting.” Buddha

Let’s take a walk.

An Icy Promise

Icy © 2008 Bo Mackison

Owen Conservation Park

Madison, WI

Afraid of Spiders? Beware!

Spider © 2008 Bo Mackison

This is actually a scorpion, not an itsy-bitsy spider. I discovered (surprise!) this monstrous guy while exploring a cave deep in a rain forest in Belize. Once it was determined he was quite harmless (gulp! – sure he was!) I aimed my lens at the scorpion from 6 inches away. Alas I only had my zoom lens – wish I’d had my macro. Now that might have been a great photo.

This arachnoid-friendly cave is a Mayan archeological site. Scientists have found artifacts from the Mayan Empire dating from 1000 A.D., evidence the cave was used for ceremonial and religious purposes. (You really don’t want to know exactly what kind of ceremonies, do you?)