Watercolour pencil and ink sketch
©2004 Charlene Brown
Everything you see and
hear becomes a lesson on a Road Scholar trip, and our hike in the cloud forest
was no exception. We were getting used to the idea that plants we would
consider houseplants back home can be as big as a house in the tropics, and in
the case of this ficus, can support a whole ecosystem! There were many plants
in addition to the ones shown here, to say nothing of the animals – mammals,
birds, reptiles, insects… everything but fish, I think.
