plumerias and posts

When we first went on vacation to Hawaii plumerias (pua in Samoan, or sometimes called frangipani) were our favorite tropical flower. So when we moved here, Clif found out how to grow them and started a tree in a pot. It's now in the biggest pot we can buy and has almost no room left to grow. And that tree started a small obsession. We now have about 10 plumerias growing in pots in front of our house: rainbow, red, orange, white, and dark pink color variations. Because we've started them from cuttings, we don't actually know the real names of them, but they are all beautiful!

Our big tree had this gorgeous bunch of blooms on it the other day.

And by way of an update for those of you crazy folks who don't use RSS feeds, I actually have been blogging a bit even though it doesn't look like it. I've completely given up on posting in chronological order so I've just been doing things as I like and back-dating to the right day. Which means there are some new Arts Festival posts back in July (almost done!) and I finally got around to uploading photos of the Tattoo Fest from October.