Here in Costa Rica we have many beautiful trees. Many of them bear fruit, some of them hide scarlet macaws, but the Cortez Amarillo is the most special of them all. For 360 days out of the year these tress are just like any other tree -- harboring birds and dropping leaves and just being green. But for those five other days they are magnificent when they erupt into pure gold. The flowers consume every branch and twig, and will last for just a few days before falling seemingly overnight and briefly carpeting the ground with citrine before fading away completely and becoming just another tree.
Shot in RAW with my Canon 70D and my Sigma 18-250 zoom lens. f22, 1/30, ISO 100, focal length 37mm.