This seems to be a good spot to add some recent pictures. I almost missed this dragonfly as he matches the blooms from the Bleeding Heart Vine (
Clerodendrum thomsoniae).
I got one more bloom on the pitaya (
Hylocereus undatus) but I missed getting a picture as it was pouring rain that night. This is the next day and the bloom is fading. Now the wait for the fruit.
Yesterday Oscar was here and I had all sorts of things I wanted him to do. Instead, Mimi was home with a cold and decided that we needed to thin out the bamboo (
Bambusa oldhamii). She got out there with him and they spent most of the day cutting down 5 really long stalks, 35' to 40' long. Oscar was so far up into the them that you couldn't see him at all. One stalk he cut about half way up and it fell into the neighbors yard so we had to go over and get their permission to pull it out. Only the live in maid was home and she let Oscar pull it off the back wall but didn't want us taking it out through the house until the owner came home. I don't blame her, just the top was about 20' long and full of branches so it would have knocked things around going through the house. I'm going to talk to the lady of the house tomorrow about Oscar coming over and cutting it up in their yard on Tuesday. I want to be a good neighbor and clean it up. They got all of the ones on our side stripped of branches and all the leaves bagged. We kept the huge stalks and the larger branches and they are on the roof drying. I want to use them to build a trellis for tomatoes that I'm going to try growing hydroponically on the roof.
This is after taking out the 5 big trunks, there are still a bunch of the leaves to be pulled out.
The mule ear orchid (
Trichocentrum carthagenense) is blooming on the back wall. I was afraid all that bamboo falling everywhere would break it but it survived.
