tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-223368372024-03-13T01:34:08.604-07:00The Wayward HawaiianPhotos of birds, fish, flowers and miscellaneous things that catch my eye and instill a sense of wonder.Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.comBlogger2727125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-64477522490623864892019-09-11T00:58:00.001-07:002019-09-11T00:58:22.191-07:00Street ArtThe neighbors have paid a painter to paint public utilities and curbing. It's really brightened up the normally drab green utilities.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-21135208959476179392016-08-28T00:17:00.000-07:002016-08-28T00:17:42.589-07:00Cymbidium atropurpureum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cymbidium atropurpureum, is a native of Southeast Asia, where it grows in forests up to 5000 ft. The flowers are nearly black and cascade downwards in pendant inflorescenses, making a both striking and graceful display.</div>
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Dragon Fruit blossom on the epiphytic jungle cactus Hylocereus costaricensis. This plant originates in Central America where it was cultivated for food. It is also called Pitaya roja or red-fleshed pitaya. Hylocereus polyrhizus is a synonym. The fruits are sweet but slightly tart, have red, shiny exteriors covered with green bracts. The flesh of the fruits is a dark pink with tiny black seeds. In nature, these beautiful, noctunal flowers are pollinated by bats and, if they open early enough, also by bees. The flowers open in the evening, being fully open by around nine or ten at night, and are typically wilted by the next afternoon.<div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-56113586026332206402016-08-14T22:26:00.001-07:002016-08-14T22:26:30.432-07:00Electric Blue Acara<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Electric Blue Acara. Newest fish in the tank. Do you think it'll eat the java ferns?<div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-85839452331166992016-08-07T00:53:00.001-07:002016-08-07T00:53:44.167-07:00Wow, Crazy Bee-Eating Spider!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Spider and hapless bee, enmeshed alive in spider silk, all in a blink of an eye, as she spun the bee round and round, coating it in the toughest netting to return tonight for a living feast. She set a huge, strong web right next to a patch of blooming ice plant and was reeling in bee after bee in a steady wagon train of future meals. You would think she'd get tired of wrapping bees after a while but she never tired and never wavered. As for those mounds on her back? I'm not sure but perhaps they're eggs for future generation of spiders? Yikes.</div>
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Eulophia petersii 'Captain Peters' HCC/AOS</div>
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Paphiopedilum Carolyn Butcher 'Arnie' HCC 78pts</div>
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June 2016 awards given at the San Diego American Orchid Society Judging Center</div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-37806193557769670862016-06-12T20:47:00.000-07:002016-06-12T20:47:31.025-07:00A Garden for the Hummingbirds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The Hummingbirds are back in full strength and having some natural nutrients in their diet is always a good thing. As it happens, I found myself at the nursery today and a bunch of Salvia species and hybrids and a little hysop found its way into my garden to provide the hummers a little bit more than just sugar/hummingbird food mix that I put into the feeders.</div>
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Hummingbird Hysop</div>
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Pineapple Sage</div>
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Salvia 'Amistad'</div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-79106986038871119002016-05-29T18:27:00.000-07:002016-05-29T18:27:27.583-07:00American Orchid Society Awards for the San Diego Region for May, 2016American Orchid Society Awards for the San Diego Region for May, 2016<br />
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Ansellia africana 'Rainbow Valley' HCC/AOS</div>
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(Blc Willette Wong X Pot Mem Jim Nickou) 'Arnie' AM/AOS</div>
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Encyclia Rioclarense 'Arnie' AM/AOS</div>
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Encyclia Rioclarense 'Arnie' AM/AOS</div>
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(Laelia praestans x Laelia crispata) 'Brazil Treasure' AM/AOS</div>
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Myrmecocattleya Mem Louise Fuchs 'Purple Rain' FCC/AOS</div>
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Paph Jolly Holiday 'Seagraves' AM/AOS</div>
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Phal Haur Jih Fancy 'Cherie CT #2' AM/AOS</div>
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Phal Haur Jih Fancy 'Cherie CT #3' AM</div>
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-66457512809751772832016-05-29T18:14:00.000-07:002016-05-29T18:14:00.761-07:00American Orchid Society Regional Judging Awards for the San Diego Judging Center, April, 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
American Orchid Society Regional Judging Awards for the San Diego Judging Center, April, 2016</div>
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Brassavola nodosa 'Big Deal' AM/AOS</div>
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Comparettia x maloi 'Windflower' AM/AOS</div>
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Paphiopedilum wenshanense 'Arnie' HCC/AOS</div>
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Phalaenopsis Sogo Rose 'Arnieberry' AM/AOS</div>
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Renanthera imschootiana 'Feuerbach' AM/AOS</div>
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Renanthera imschootiana 'Feuerbach' AM/AOS</div>
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Tolumnia velutina 'Isabella' CCM/AOS</div>
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-88222253056269216762016-03-05T00:07:00.001-08:002016-03-05T00:07:39.404-08:00March San Diego American Orchid Society Awards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Here are the awards from the March American Orchid Society Judging in San Diego, California.</div>
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Female American Kestrel, Falco sparverius, at the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, resting on barbed wire while scanning the grass below for grasshoppers, lizards and other small prey. It always amazes me how birds leisurely lounge on barbed wire without ever apparently getting poked. I've even seen birds on Chollas cactus (for example, the cactus wren), which is no small feat.<div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-32499359045050984452016-01-26T04:39:00.003-08:002016-01-26T04:39:52.090-08:00Broad-Winged Hawk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A Broad-Winged Hawk, Buteo platypterus, hunting for rabbits, mice, lizards and other small prey at the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve. This particular, rather large hawk appears to be staring directly at me, or perhaps my small dog which was walking with us, deciding if we were an appropriate meal. With some relief, I note that it decided that we were not.<div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-52289641790005433082016-01-12T23:56:00.001-08:002016-01-12T23:56:11.437-08:00Huge Flock of Wintering Willets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A huge flock of Willets (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus), in their Winter colors, adopts a Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) or two and a Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa), all rising up in unison forming a zig zagging cloud of wings, confounding hungry hawks. Tijuana Estuarine Preserve, San Diego, California<div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-81190386871140792992016-01-10T23:41:00.003-08:002016-01-10T23:41:51.693-08:00The Nightmare Goatfish!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bandtail Goatfish, Weke Pueo in Hawaiian, with a small Papio (Jack in English). Small papio will hang out with goatfish, often eating small shrimp and other critters scared up off the bottom the by the goatfish, which grubs in the sand. This particular somewhat uncommon goatfish is rumored to be hallucinogenic, if eaten (particularly the eyes and guts...bleah), causing nasty nightmares. I'd bet it's caused by something that this particular goatfish eats. Weke, pronounced veh-keh, is the generic name for goatfish in Hawaiian. Pueo, if I recall, was owl in Hawaiian, perhaps alluding to the weird nightmares it causes when eaten. As for me, I think it's one of the more beautiful goatfish and would just as soon leave it to live a long and happy life in the ocean.<div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-57285816577500071992015-12-31T14:46:00.004-08:002015-12-31T14:47:31.486-08:00Happy New Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy New Year! May 2016 bring you happiness, health and success.<div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-39265450439909009462015-12-08T22:31:00.000-08:002015-12-13T10:47:30.842-08:00December American Orchid Society Awards for the San Diego Judging Region<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-P3hSP4Rzizo/VmfJf9V99mI/AAAAAAAALlA/YtLFjKAnbYk/s1600/Cattleya%2Btrianae%2B%2527Supreme%2527%2BHCC%2B79pts%2Br1000.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-P3hSP4Rzizo/VmfJf9V99mI/AAAAAAAALlA/YtLFjKAnbYk/s400/Cattleya%2Btrianae%2B%2527Supreme%2527%2BHCC%2B79pts%2Br1000.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
Cattleya trianae 'Supreme' HCC/AOS<br />
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Clowesetum Maeve 'SunsetValleyOrchidsFreckles' AM/AOS = Clowesia Rebecca Northern X Ctsm. Mark Dimmitt<br />
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Ctsm Millie's Frilly Dragon 'SVO Frills' AM/AOS<br />
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Ctsm spitzii 'SVO Gold' FCC/AOS<br />
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Phragmipedium Don Wimber 'Amazon Sunset' HCC/AOS<br />
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Gomesa colorata 'Jenny' AM/AOS<br />
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Gomesa colorata 'Jojo s Firecracker' HCC/AOS<br />
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Vanda falcata_Feuerbach CCE/AOS<br />
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Venting gas at the refinery at Etang de Berre/Marignane. It was burning, every time I passed by; I don't know if it burns 24x7x365 but it seems to be a constant presence.</div>
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Some shots from Carry le Rouet, France.</div>
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Fossilized scallop from an ancient seabed. Do you suppose there is a tectonic plate being forced up?</div>
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Cutest lab-terrier mix. Mom was this tiny terrier and dad was a very persistent black lab. He was up for adoption as his owner was moving into a small apartment and didn't have space for a lab mix.</div>
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The Carry le Rouet lighthouse under cloudy skies.</div>
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An old, unused boat ramp.</div>
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22336837.post-62998412434174713812015-09-21T02:32:00.002-07:002015-09-21T02:50:26.763-07:00Chateau de la Barben<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This photo of the Chateau de la Barben was shot from the road, looking towards the castle. This mediaeval fortress, mentioned as early as 1069, belonged to King René of Provence in the 15th century. It was, at some point, sold to a merchent family (who sold furs and pelts) that supported the King, and was altered and extended in the 16th and 17th centuries. The keep was burned at the beginning of the French revolution and the family, who supported the King, was executed (beheaded) later during<br />
the revolution. Restoration work was carried out in the 19th and 20th centuries and the castle remains run and maintained by private owners who conduct tours, cater out events and run a<br />
hotel at the site.<div class="blogger-post-footer">?alt=rss</div>Wayward Hawaiianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07870230217076441039noreply@blogger.com0