more plumeria pictures

I'm getting caught up so I can post Australia pictures!

So our pink plumerias finally bloomed. We have 5- and 6-petal varieties, although we don't know their technical names because they were taken from cuttings. They are a gorgeous color, but not nearly as fragrant as the white and yellow version.

This next one is really cool; it fades from a vibrant pink to white on each petal. The colors didn't come out exactly right in the picture, but it's really amazing.

The colors are much more vibrant the first day these bloom. Then they start to fade. It's really interesting. We had a rose bush that did the same thing when we lived in Spokane. It was kind of fun to see a red rose next to a peach rose on the same stem.

a boy and his camera

Everett has always been fascinated by photography. When he was four we let him use our old 35mm point and shoot when we would spend weekends in Yellowstone. I loved seeing his perspective of things. One of my favorites is a picture he took of a field of grass. He was just as tall as the grass and taking the picture from that height completely changed the look of the field.

Over the past couple months, he's been carrying around our old digital camera nonstop. Simon has gotten so sick of living with his own personal paparazzi, that he won't let Everett take pictures of him anymore. So Everett's newest thing are self-portraits. I really like some of them.