spring!
I think spring is here.. esp with the clocks going forward saturday. It’s been really sunny and nice and warm the past week. My garden is appreciating it, all the flowers that survived the frosty winter and blooming again:
and I keep finding lots of these little anoles in my garden scattering everytime I go outside:
and I had a couple as pets in a terrarium back when I lived in Buffalo, but one day they mysteriously were in the garden and Mom and Dad looked guilty. I’m sure they didn’t make it through the winter. So now I have my own native anoles that come every spring/summer in my backyard 
(Yes, it looks like something sharp got in the way of this one’s tail).
One last pic.. Amritz and Sarah picked me up a plumeria cutting when they visited Hawaii for Christmas and I planted it a couple weeks ago and it’s started doing stuff. It’s the strangest growth I’ve ever seen (looks waxy/fake) but apparantly this is normal for a plumeria cutting and it means good things are happening and those gorgeous plumeria flowers will come next year. The first year is all leaves. I’ll be happy when I see some leaves. It likes little to no water and the soil is 1/2 sand. Strange growing conditions but sounds about accurate for Hawaii. I’ll keep taking pics every couple weeks so I can do a sweet animated gif of it growing!
he’s baaaack!
The pigeon hawk is back! This morning he was patrolling our backyard! back for more??
pigeon hawk
I came home for lunch today because I got my mini back yesterday night - turns out the computer (brain) was the issue.. they replaced it.
So i get home and glance out the window before letting the dogs out and notice feathers all over the lawn and then see out of the corner of my eye what looks to be a pigeon.. so I assume the pigeon is hurt or something or he’s picking out all his feathers going crazy.. so I grab my camera so I can take a pic and show Josh, and when I go out there I realize woah that’s no pigeon, it’s some sort of hawk and it’s still standing on a dead bird! I take the photo as quickly as possible and run back in the house… don’t want to get in the way of a bird and his prey:
I guess my running into the house intrigued Damien and he wanted to go outside even more than usual.. but there was no way I was going to let him out there and face off with that bird and get some sort of bird flu. So I ended up letting him out in the front yard in the mulchy area. When I got home I cleaned up the feathers off our turf the only way I could think of- with a vacuum cleaner and then some disinfectant cleaner we use to clean the lawn:
Josh retrieved the dead carcass when he got home and apparantly all that was left was a rib cage and a bit of wings… ew the hawk thing ate the head and beak?!
i got the green thumb gene!!
I’m so excited! I thought I was a gardening failure after my green thumb parents helped me plant a garden in my backyard last year and everything died a month later. But, now my garden in the backyard is flourishing! The bougainvellia are growing like mad and the allysum have been going strong for a loooong time even need trimming!
Even my indoor plants are doing well. My corn plant in the front room started growing shoots of what looked like mini koosh balls out of it and I thought it was infested with something, but then looked it up and it’s very very rare, but corn plant will flower on occassion and when it does, it only does about once every 7 YEARS! And even better it’s one of the most fragrant flowers imagineable, it’s stronger than hyacinth but smells like hyacinth. The entire downstairs and half the upstairs smells of it. I love it!!
Here’s some pics:
The garden in the backyard
A bee buzzing around the allysum
My bougainvellia
My corn plant
The super fragrant flowers on the corn plant
