The first rains have come --- nothing too heavy , but brown is giving way to green, the smoke from brush fires no longer lingers in the air, and the guayacan flowers have come and gone. These photos were taken before the rain, however.

Panama's tropical climate works in a way that has something blooming, and something shedding its leaves, at every time of the year. Above, and on our front page, we have the guayacan's beautiful yellow flowers, which make their brief appearance toward the end of every dry season. Below we have one of Panama's myriad orchid species, which happened to be in bloom on the same day as the nearby guayacans, and at the bottom we have the marañon --- cashew fruit --- which is just coming into season.

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