Buttercups and Cement
To go with Xris' theme of Trees in the Concrete.Buttercups Cement Iron and Plastic.A daytime view.
View ArticleOrganizing Chaos
Retirement is exhausting. My beautiful pile of rubbish has been turned into a ridiculous collection of ceramic pots. There are a few cracked pots among them.Where did all these pots come from? I swear...
View ArticleA Tired Mind
My Favorite Frond.Aging Beauties.Who or what is supposed to find this sexy?It's Alive .Xi'an Terracotta Army of Maui.I forgot to stop and smell the Orange Blossoms.Are Killer Ants killing the Bees?
View ArticleIt's About Time
Sunset from My Window May 3rd 2007 6:45pmOne of The Views from My Window has finally made it onto Andrew Sullivan's blog if some what incredibly indirectly.The World From Your Window is an interactive...
View ArticleLife Grows On
One garden is coming to an end. Very soon, in the desert, all that may remain is a ghostly image of a formerly lush and bountiful landscape. A minimum of water will keep the drought adapted and drought...
View ArticleDeath Row
In the Big Picture Show of Life, one of its inevitable truths is fast approaching. "Whatever is subject to arising is subject to ceasing." The vibrant beauty and vitality we see now will fade, wither...
View ArticleFestival of Stuff
Emperor Cri'sTerracotta Army of Maui gets a sentinel stuff.Some pots were sold.Some pots were added.Equilibrium has been maintained.Indoor stuff being sent outside.Freshly weeded slightly piqued...
View ArticleIt's Beginning
To look a lot like.....I don't wear shoes when I garden at home.That I will have an exotic slippa tan for my cross country trek.If they don't make me wear shoes on the mainland.Do they make you?That I...
View ArticleBriefly Surfacing
From the dust and debris for an evening stroll through a shrinking garden. My sunset slice has shifted and now includes my Cocovane Weather Palm.It is the best time to review what progress if any has...
View ArticleGBBD May
While I still can, I figured I should give the people what they really really want, the exotic and the tropical.Garden Bloggers Bloom Day gathering spot is at Carol's May Dreams Gardens.What could be...
View ArticleWhat Lurks In My Garden
The jungly abundance is putting on a tropical spring show as I wander it's nether regions doing things to it. A lot of new air and light is reaching into the hidden recesses. As long as it continues to...
View ArticleThat was Just a Dream
Did I ever really leave home for such a long time, half of my life?Right before I move back, closer to my place of origin, this tree I know, of familiar times and places goes all southern on me. The...
View ArticleBrief Interlude
Here is something to look at while I work on a longer post. Oh what care free days those were back when I had a job and so much free time on my hands. Unloading a house full of rubbish, a nursery full...
View ArticleWinding Down
Not every sunset is spectacular. Sometimes the sun just fades into grey. My cleaning and digging frenzy has sent so much dust and debris into the air that the normal Trade Winds high pressure system...
View ArticleWalk Around the House
When you stand back a bit, the hundreds of tropical flowers I have been showing you all this past year fade into the jungle green. Standing at the bottom of the drive next to the carport, a generous...
View ArticleLetting Go
If my blogger Icon, Darkie, the traumatized baby kitty, who was a cantankerous cat most of his life, but learned how to love and be loved before it was all over, survives the night I will be...
View ArticleGood to the Last Flower
Another long day has ended. More stuff and more plants have left the premises.The Buttercup Tree keeps on keeping on. It is spitting out flowers on some of the water sprout branches forming on its...
View ArticleInside Outside
A new policy has been instituted. If it goes outside to get sold, it is not allowed back inside. The result is the house is pretty much emptied and actual packing has commenced. The carport is...
View ArticleTropical Porn
Heliconia bihai in the flesh, raw and unedited.Apparently there may be some genre of porn of which I am not aware. When I did the post on Ms. Derviss' new blog Garden Porn, I kept getting hits to my...
View ArticlePapaya Skies
It was another moist like day with the sky contemplating rain and offering up only minor sprinkles. I was inside most of the time packing my life into a corner. A test space for my big box that is...
View ArticleEarly This Morning
Before I loaded the truck with plants to take down to the nursery in town, drove to the other side to look inside my air freight Big Box and see the actual interior dimensions and to buy real boxes and...
View ArticleLast Minute Impulse
Half-breed SamoanThe picture is straight.I have always leaned slightly askew.
View ArticleLife Moves on a Long
If you were hoping for some great final essay from Maui you will be disappointed. I had planned to write something. I wanted to. The art of procrastination is reserving it for a cold snowy day when I...
View ArticleI'm Going Home
Aloha Maui No Ka Oi Aloha Tropical Embellishments To a North Carolina mountaintop You will find me there. Just Outside Clyde.
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