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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.
A goat with strange horns.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Anthurium ‘Princess Alexia Jade.’
Philodendron Goeldii’s spiraling leaves.
A small praying mantis on an arm.
This little Praying Mantis landed on my arm, which is the closest I get to taking a selfie!

The Numbers Game #90

Aphelandra sinclairiana.

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.

A native Amaumau Fern.
Anthurium ‘Miss Mini Purple.’
Guzmania ‘Limones’.
Ananas bracteatus.
Medinilla Alata ‘Lalique’ flowers.
A Dendrobium spectabile orchid.

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
Fiery spike (Aphelandra aurantiaca).
Foliage in a pot at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden
Foliage in a pot.
Panama Queen flowers at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden
Aphelandra sinclairiana or Panama Queen.
Wishing well orchids at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden
Orchids in the well. There’s probably enough money in there to cover the cost of admission!
Red Ti leaves at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden
Red Ti leaves in the sun.

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
Red heliconia
Hanging Lobster Claw Heliconia at Hawai’i Tropical Bioreserve & Garden
Hanging Lobster Claw Heliconia
Beehive ginger plants at Hawai’i Tropical Bioreserve & Garden
Beehive ginger

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.

A parachuting clown hangs from a tree.
A flying clown. That’s all the world needs!
A grasshopper on a curved stem
A grasshopper keeping watch.
Banana stalk flies mating on the spadix of an Anthurium schlechtendalii
Two Banana Stalk Flies doing, well, you know what.
A rock sits balanced on the coast of the Big Island of Hawaii
A well balanced rock on the North Kohala coast.
Post office boxes in Hawaii
Couldn’t resist taking this one at my local post office. I can run this several times!

Looking back at 2023 – part 2

A Gray Francolin walks on a railing in Hawaii
July: Got anything for me (link)?
A vase of tropical flowers below a photo of a gecko on a bird of paradise flower
August: Still life with snake (link).

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.

A Whitetip Reef Shark in the waters off Hawaii
September: Mr. Chompers on the move (link).
A decoy duck in the waters off Hawaii
October: Wood you believe it (link)?
A view of Mauna Kea at Sunrise
November: Mauna Kea around sunrise (link).
A child's boot left on a rock in Hawaii
December: The boot’s not on the other foot (link).