Sunday Stills challenge theme this week and next week is ‘Your 2024 Year-in-Review.’ See more responses here. As usual, I’m going with a favorite photo from each month of 2024, with a caption and link to the post the photo first appeared in. This week’s post is for January through June. See the rest of the year next week.
The Candlenut (Aleurites moluccanus) is known as Kukui in Hawaii and was brought to the islands by the original Polynesian settlers. It has a lot of uses, which made it an important plant here, and the masses of tiny white flowers make a wonderful sight.
For more information about Candlenuts, go to https://canoeplants.com/kukui.html.
The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 174. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Solanum linnaeanum, sometimes called the devil’s apple, hails from Africa and is an invasive weed in Hawaii. The flowers are colorful, but the plant is studded with thorns and is poisonous.
This month’s Sunday Stills color challenge theme is ‘Metallic.’ See more responses here.
The top photo shows a Metallic Skink (Lampropholis delicata), which is also known as Delicate Skink, Garden Skink, Rainbow Skink, and less-flatteringly, Plague Skink. This one was crossing a road, luckily a lightly-traveled one.
The second photo is an orchid with the catchy name of Rhyncholaeliocattleya Shingfong Gold Gem ‘Golden Gem.’
The third photo is shoal of small, silvery fish, which I think are the aptly named Hawaiian Silversides.
Bees explore the tiny flowers on a Tree Heliotrope at Puʻukoholā Heiau National Historic Site in Kawaihae.
Bamboo Orchids in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
The Queen Ka’ahumanu Highway, along the Kohala coast, passes through dry, barren lava fields. But even there, some plants are able to get a foothold. There are several Bougainvillea bushes along the road, including this one that was in full bloom as I headed home one late afternoon.
Graham's Island 