Gerry Goes to Court

Well, Gerry got back from New Orleans with his business suit alright. He brought back one suit, dress shoes, black socks, 3 ties (from which he can choose depending on his mood) and one shirt. That is correct. He only brought back ONE SHIRT.

Today and tomorrow he meets privately with his defense team: three lawyers and four corporate ‘suits’ who came from the Head Office to help plan the defense strategy and serve as witnesses. Today’s meeting takes places at the corporate offices and tomorrow they all meet again at the office of one of his Costa Rican attorneys. On Wednesday they all go to court together and defend Gerry before a Costa Rican judge.

Which day to you think Gerry is going to wear his ONE SHIRT? You got it – when the whole parade of ‘suits’ marches into the Costa Rican Tribunals on Wednesday morning.

So today, he put on his jeans and Bahamian silk shirt as usual. The only item of clothing he lacked for the ‘retired man’ picture, was his Panama hat, which is in storage. So how do you imagine all those hard-working lawyers and corporate guys responded to Gerry’s outfit?

And not to mention Gerry’s New Freedom Attitude:

“Hey! Great to see you! How’s the weather up there in New Jersey? Retirement is great! I’m busy remodeling the Costa Rica house but made time to travel to our flat in New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Actually, my primary purpose of going up there was to pick up one of my suits for our court appearance this week! Fat Tuesday was just a coincidence but hey, what a riot that was – parties of all sorts going on all over and what parades –Orpheus was the best parade by far for the floats! But Zulu was the most fun…then there were all those wild and silly costumes on Bourbon Street…and what a racket the crowds made… you couldn’t hear your cellular after 5PM … and then the cocktails and galas….and on Ash Wednesday, I jumped back on a plane to reach Costa Rica in time for this strategy session here with all of you nicely dressed gentlemen.”

Meanwhile, for all of us tree gazers, we’re in the middle of high flowering season. All you have to do is look out the window to see the spectacle – that is if you live in Costa Rica. Otherwise, go the Elmundoforestal.com to take a look at the pictures. It is just a glorious sight outside:

In bloom you have both Poro species blazing up the highways around Escazu over to Uruca with orange blooms both bright and lighter colored. Poro (Erythrina lanceolate) and Poro Gigante (Erythrina poeppigianao) species are mixed together over there but Poro Gigante predominates over at the Rodeo coffee fields. Also in bloom are the incredible Tabebuias. What a show! Both the Cortez amarilla (T. Ochracea) and the Roble Sabana (T. rosea are brightening up the terrain with a canopy full of pink and yellow blooms. You can also see the scattered, more open blooms of the Poroporo (Cochlospermum vitifolium) and the streetside yellow Oleander. Also, due to the rain we got 10 days ago, the coffee fields have all burst into bloom, filling the air with the sweet aroma of coffee flowers. And that’s just the trees! The flowering shrubbery lining the roadsides have burst into riotous colors with bougainvillea stealing the show.

The colorful spectacle is kind of like a Mardi Gras for naturalists!