Season for the Flowering Trees of Costa Rica

Here are a few shots of the trees we're starting to see this summer. (Some are from last year, but just to give you an idea about how gorgeous they are.) This is my favorite, the "golden shower":

Then there are so many of these fig trees which put down a zillion roots.
And the infamous "strangler fig". This thing starts spouting from the crotch of a tree, when a bird ingests the seed and drops it there. Once the roots touch the soil they become practically unstoppable and leave the poor host tree unable to expand, so it eventually dies.Here's what'll happen if you leave some machinery around too long!