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The Numbers Game #107

Banana plants thrive in heavy tropical rain. — Bananas in the rain.

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

A Scrawled Filefish in the waters off Hawaii — Suspicious Scrawled FIlefish.

Bluefin trevallies catch the light — Suspicious Scrawled FIlefish.

Red Anthurium

A Red Anthurium at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden. Posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here.

The Numbers Game #92

A green anole hangs onto a line. — A green anole on a washing line.

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

A shoal of young bluefin trevallies roams the shallows. — Bluefin Trevallies.

The Numbers Game #90

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 212, which turned up a selection dominated by plants, so I’ve gone for an all-plant line up. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

From the garden

A Red heliconia at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden — A very red heliconia.

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘National Garden Month.’ See more responses here. I don’t really have a garden here, but I do enjoy a visit to Hawai’i Tropical Botanical Garden, so here are some photos from my most recent visit.

at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden — *Anthurium Schlechtendalii* or Pheasant’s Tail.

A Fiery Spike flower at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden — *Anthurium Schlechtendalii* or Pheasant’s Tail.

Panama Queen flowers at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden — *Aphelandra sinclairiana* or Panama Queen.

Wishing well orchids at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden — *Aphelandra sinclairiana* or Panama Queen.

April flowers from March showers

Water lilies at Hawai’i Tropical Bioreserve & Garden — Water lilies.

Painter's Pallette Anthurium at Hawai’i Tropical Bioreserve & Garden — Painter’s Pallette Anthurium.

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘April Flowers.’ See more responses here.

Looking through my files, I found a dearth of flower photos taken in April, except for one visit to Hawai’i Tropical Bioreserve & Garden a couple of years ago. These photos are from that visit.

A Phalaenopsis Orchid at Hawai’i Tropical Bioreserve & Garden — Phalaenopsis or Moth Orchid.

Some ‘flowers’ aren’t flowers at all. These are the bracts of the plants, which are far more showy than the small flowers that emerge from them later.

Heliconia Pogonantha at Hawai’i Tropical Bioreserve & Garden — Heliconia Pogonantha

A red Heliconia at Hawai’i Tropical Bioreserve & Garden — Heliconia Pogonantha

For more information about Hawai’i Tropical Bioreserve & Garden, go to htbg.com.

The Numbers Game #11

A distant view of Pu'u O'o vent from the Napau Trail at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park — A view of Pu’u O’o vent, when it was erupting, from the Napau Trail in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

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 132.

You can see more responses here.