Category Archives: Plants

Red Passion Flower

Posted for Becky’s Squares: ‘Simply Red.’ See more responses here.

The Numbers Game #79

An alien cloud over the saddle between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.

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 200. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A Hawaiian garden spider — Hawaiian Garden Spider

Ohelo 'ai growing in the lava on the Big Island, Hawaii — Vaccinium reticulatum.

The sun shines behind clouds and a palm tree — Vaccinium reticulatum.

Aechmea Gamosepala Bromeliad

This plant is also known as the matchstick bromeliad because of the appearance of its flowering stalks. These purple stalks are actually bracts, with the flower being the purple tip that give it the matchstick look.

Japanese White-eye feeding

A Japanese White-eye on Octopus Tree flowers in Hawaii

This Japanese White-eye was snacking on the flowers, just starting to open, of an Octopus Tree.

The Numbers Game #78

Clouds make a blanket between the slopes of Mauna Kea and Maui.

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 199. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A stuffed toy left behind in North Kohala.

A fly on the edge of a leaf — A Mourning Gecko in the daytime.

Monday portrait

The mango tree is dropping fruit, which means that the numerous wild pigs around here are stopping by on a regular basis to scarf them up. This is one of them, or is it? A tag in the ear usually indicates a domesticated animal, but this one was roaming with the other wild pigs. An escapee perhaps? Part of a scientific study?

But them I looked at the tag again, 004. Surely, this means the pig is a British secret agent, probably sent to check up on me and make sure I’m drinking enough tea and not bad-mouthing the king. Hopefully, he’s not yet licensed to kill, just to eat mangoes.