Kauai Sunset

Kauai Sunset
Originally uploaded by Uncle Mikey.

Damn that's sexy. Over the roof of a speeding car without looking. From now on, that's how I take pictures.

Avast ye!

Red Hibiscus

Red Hibiscus
Originally uploaded by Uncle Mikey.

My wife's lovely hand next to a Hibiscus flower. Saucy

Some people don't get it

John Kerry and his supporters actually think the Swift Vets are puppets of Karl Rove. They say as much. As if you could get more than a single-digit number of war vets to do anything they didn't already want to do, like, say, support John Kerry. For example.

But Kerry and others really believe this is all being engineered to harm them, and that the American people are too dumb to understand that it's happening.

Nice.

Ollie and Julian

Ollie and Julian
Originally uploaded by mbolduc.

My nephew, who is half British by birth, and our dog Oliver at play. Or maybe Julian is about to smack the crap out of Ollie.

Dreary Sunday

Overcast but still no goddam (like Burton said it, go-damn) rain. Huge red Hibiscus flowers, 10 at least. Plumbago and Bougainvillea and some Orange Trumpets, and the tender little jewels the Carnation of India is constantly producing. The soil here is so shot through with limestone that it drains the color from the leaves and flowers of many plants if you don't amend the soil just right, which I mostly have not. Most plants seem pretty happy on the whole but some of our Althea (rose of Sharon) trees are getting kind of ghostly, as are some of the Jasmines scattered about.

Propagation of the flowering Dwarf Rouellia from the three places we've planted it is pretty alarming, probably 25-30 spots in the yard sprouting and a couple big enough to put up perfect little purple flowers. We've removed most of the Horse Herb from the back yard and it's filling in with old Bermuda, Johnson grass, and now little Dward Rouellias, and even some of the regular purple Rouellias that were the first plants we planted three and a half years ago have sprouted in the yard. I pity the plant that comes up against the low-tech pushmower I will run over them.

Pictures soon.