The neighbors have paid a painter to paint public utilities and curbing. It's really brightened up the normally drab green utilities.
The Wayward Hawaiian
Photos of birds, fish, flowers and miscellaneous things that catch my eye and instill a sense of wonder.
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Cymbidium atropurpureum
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.
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Dragon Fruit Blossom
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.
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Sunday, August 07, 2016
Wow, Crazy Bee-Eating Spider!
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.
Tuesday, August 02, 2016
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Sunday, July 24, 2016
July 2016 San Diego Judging Center American Orchid Society Awards
July 2016 San Diego Judging Center American Orchid Society Awards
Cattleya Dean's Flair 'Sunset Valley Orchids' AM 85pts
Cattleya Leoloddiglossa 'SVO Speckled Blue' FCC 90pts
Cattleya tenebrosa 'Windflower' AM 85pts
Cattleya warscewiczii 'Fatima' HCC 78 pts
Laeliocatarthron Silver Maker 'Sunset Valley Orchids' AM 80pts
Paphiopedilum Ap Philip 'Seagraves' AM 80pts
Paphiopedilum Carolyn Butcher 'Arnie' HCC 78pts
Paphiopedilum Crouching Tiger 'Piedmont' HCC 78pts
Paphiopedilum Temptation 'Seagraves' AM 80pts
June 2016 AOS Awards for San Diego Judging
June 2016 awards given at the San Diego American Orchid Society Judging Center
Cattleya warscewiczii 'Fabio Nahas' AM/AOS
Cattleya Zip 'Red Velvet' AM/AOS
Enanthleya Purple Martins 'Arnie' HCC/AOS
Phrag Living Fire 'James Wright' HCC/AOS
Rodrumnia Cherry Hollow 'Very Cherry' AM/AOS
Sunday, June 12, 2016
A Garden for the Hummingbirds
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.
Hummingbird Hysop
Pineapple Sage
Salvia 'Amistad'
Salvia urica var compacta
Sunday, May 29, 2016
American Orchid Society Awards for the San Diego Region for May, 2016
American Orchid Society Awards for the San Diego Region for May, 2016
Ansellia africana 'Rainbow Valley' HCC/AOS
(Blc Willette Wong X Pot Mem Jim Nickou) 'Arnie' AM/AOS
Encyclia Rioclarense 'Arnie' AM/AOS
Encyclia Rioclarense 'Arnie' AM/AOS
(Laelia praestans x Laelia crispata) 'Brazil Treasure' AM/AOS
Myrmecocattleya Mem Louise Fuchs 'Purple Rain' FCC/AOS
Paph Jolly Holiday 'Seagraves' AM/AOS
Phal Haur Jih Fancy 'Cherie CT #2' AM/AOS
Phal Haur Jih Fancy 'Cherie CT #3' AM
American Orchid Society Regional Judging Awards for the San Diego Judging Center, April, 2016
American Orchid Society Regional Judging Awards for the San Diego Judging Center, April, 2016
Brassavola nodosa 'Big Deal' AM/AOS
Comparettia x maloi 'Windflower' AM/AOS
Paphiopedilum wenshanense 'Arnie' HCC/AOS
Phalaenopsis Sogo Rose 'Arnieberry' AM/AOS
Renanthera imschootiana 'Feuerbach' AM/AOS
Renanthera imschootiana 'Feuerbach' AM/AOS
Tolumnia velutina 'Isabella' CCM/AOS
Saturday, March 05, 2016
March San Diego American Orchid Society Awards
Here are the awards from the March American Orchid Society Judging in San Diego, California.
Dendrobium Greta Snow 'Charley's Favorite' AM/AOS
Restrepia lansbergii 'DMH' AM/AOS
Friday, January 29, 2016
Jackrabbit on the Run!
This large Jackrabbit, Lepus californicus, was entertaining a wonderful couple who were nice enough to point him out to me, prior to him bounding off into the bushes. As opposed to those cute little cottontails, jackrabbits are quite large, super fast when on the run, and are actually in a different genus. Here, at the Tijuana Estuarine Reserve, they have desert cottontails, Sylvilagus audobonii, also known as Audubon's cottontail.
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