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Snow on Mauna Kea summit, with clouds and high overcast. Bone-chillin’ 64 F. this morning. Taken from Hilo Bayfront.
Pix from the ranch… the “back 40” full of trees and… ground cover after a month of no cutting. Those little mounds in the terrain are lava-domes of nice ropey lava. This place is a rock garden once it is all cleaned out and maintained.
Buried back there is Mango, Lychee, lemon, guava, papaya, mountain apple, an Achiote’ (Annatto seed). Those broadleafs on the left are Heliconias with orange hanging blooms. There is torch ginger, too. There’s a magnolia tree showing a few round leaves on the right edge. That spikey-spiney thing in the middle is a Dracaena or Dragon plant… tree sized. The broadleaf cluster in the front center is a Ti plant… believed to bring good luck and drive away evil spirits..
Only thing missing now is a good vegetable garden. More on the ‘to do’ list for the next 20 years.