Picture Day!

I moved picture day up a day, so this isn't Doctor Visits.  Click on a picture to enlarge it.

This, people, could be considered a sacred plant.  It is cacao, the source of chocolate!

 

Closeup of a cone ginger flower.

 

Red hibiscus.

The dirt on this mountain side, saturated by recent rains, gave way and this landslide resulted.  The road was blocked off for a little while.  It happened about 7:30 a.m. on the main road.

A well-kept yard.  Note the young tree fern.

Here is how a rock-filled landscape is mowed.  The lava rock would play hell with a lawn mower.  And, by the way, the grass is centipede – the same as we have in our yard in Royston.  Only, theirs doesn’t turn brown in winter.

A fale (pronounced Fah Lay).  A fale is an open-sided structure divided into rooms by screens, or simply by placement of furniture.  It is a home.  The open sides allow the cooling breeze to pass through.

Papaya tree.

The fish doesn’t get any fresher.  These guys surf fish and have set up a stand by the main road to market their catch.  This fellow’s name is “Praise.”

A Methodist church.  When I get a car, I’ll do a whole series of photographs of churches, another of buses, then fales, and front yard graves.

Walls are popular landscape features.

Bright and shiny new out of the box just three weeks ago, alas, my fan has fallen victim to the salt in the air.  The salt in the air exists as minute crystals.  It coats the windshield of the car overnight, and that creates a glare when driving into the sun that makes the road ahead of you impossible to see

The gravesite of a former village high chief (matai – pronounced Mah Tie) and his wife.  In the middle of the village.

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