Home is where the green is • Photo: R.C. Flore-Gunkle

Tropical Autumn? Color it Green

A visit to Villa Flores

Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle
3 min readNov 6, 2024

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It isn’t easy being green in November in the upper Northern Hemisphere in autumn (unless it is a conifer or other evergreen, that is!) It is either a splash of brilliant colors or burnt umber, ocher, dark grey, or white.

I have just returned from a few weeks in the north, and my eyes are glorying at the lush green around my tropical island home. I was in a dark mood today, Nov. 6, 2024, so I wandered the property with my camera and brightened my life.

Green is good • Photo: R.C. Flore-Gunkle

Things looked good on the north terrace, with greens lined up along the east side. I stopped there and lazed in the hammock while a light shower passed and the sun came out. It was a pattern to continue in Puerto Rico all day — my favorite weather for nature photography.

Ready for its closeup • Photo: R.C. Flore-Gunkle

I love the way the light creates so many shades of green and how the raindrops make the leaves glisten.

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