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For my last dinner with them, Virginia went all out. Someone showed up with hearts of palm, which were stripped out on the back porch. They ended up in a salad that complimented the main dish served throughout most of Costa Rica, gallopinto (rice and beans). Virginia’s kitchen is simple, not so well lit by a couple of candles. Like many rural kitchens, the concrete sink (left side) drains out into a ditch. Every evening meal was also by candlelight, at the table and chair set that Edgar made while working in a cabinet shop. |
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On Saturday morning, we had a couple of hours before I had to leave to catch a bus about a 30-minute drive away. Edgar and I were joined by a number of kids for a walk looking at plants and bugs. In the past he has seen many machacas on a particular tree but none were to be found this morning. Along the way we encountered these plants and butterflies. |
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On the top of a hill above his brother’s house, there was a Passiflora ambigua that was loaded with larvae and a few pupae of Eueides isabella (Heliconiinae). These were taken back to the house be reared. |
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Time was running short so we hustled back so I could clean up my botas (rubber boots) and pack. Edgar’s brother had arranged for a driver and 4X4 Toyota to pick me up, as the only vehicles in the entire family are motorcycles. It was sad to be saying goodbye but again, I was enriched by warm and generous Tico family. Virginia insisted I take her hand-painted pillow case I had been using as a memory of my stay with the Corrales’.
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