A Large Orange Sulphur Butterfly feeds at a Bougainvillea flower. The flowers are small and white, but the bracts are much larger and colorful, and a major reason for the plant’s popularity.
Yellow on purple
Category Archives: Plants
Plumeria flower opening
Plumerias here are starting to flower on their leafless branches. This flower is just opening revealing its perfect form.
Looking back at 2023 – part 2
Sunday Stills challenge theme this week and last week is ‘Your 2023 Year-in-Review.’ See more responses here. As before, I’m going with a favorite photo from each month of 2023, with a caption and link to the post the photo first appeared in. Last week, I posted favorites from January through June. This week, it’s July through December.
After the rain
After recent rain, the sun came out and illuminated the water drops on coffee berries in the yard.
Lurking
I had to go back a few days for my photo for Bushboy’s Last on the Card photo challenge (see more responses here). It proved to be this praying mantis lurking on a plumeria flower stem.
Looking back at 2023
Sunday Stills challenge theme this week and next week is ‘Your 2023 Year-in-Review.’ See more responses here. As before, I’m going with a favorite photo from each month of 2023, with a caption and link to the post the photo first appeared in. This week, I’m posting favorites from January through June. See the rest of the year next week.
Agapanthus
On a recent visit to Waimea, I found these Agapanthus flowers in bloom. They seem to flower year round in that area.
Sailing by
A sailboat glides over the water off the North Kohala coast, an image that doesn’t look much different in color.
