Friday Wanderings . . . Close to Home

Todays wanderings were limited to my own yard, or more prescisely, yards...

First up, a trip to the New Property to build a shelter for some work we need to do on the beams and rafters for the new construction.

The overarching theme up there is MUD!!!

We can't even drive up there. It's the kind of sticky, thick, gooey red clay that will pull your boots right off your feet.

So, very little actual wandering took place and we got on with the task at hand.

Unfortunately, a minor bungee cord injury cut our plans short, and we hurried home for ice and painkillers. Once settled in, I took the opportunity to wander the garden between downpours.

The day is a bit dreary, but I thought my road looked particularly peaceful and even a little bit appealing after this week's resurfacing, a term which makes me smile every time I pay my road maintenance bill. Not really.

The bog lilies along my fenceline caught my eye. Several years ago I did a large painting of bog lilies, and it sold before I had a change to snap even a single picture. I have been meaning to get back to painting them, along with several other white flowers. We have two varieties of bog lilies (cousin to the spider lily), the white, and the purple, called Queen Emma, after Hawai'i's Queen Emma, wife of King Kamehameha IV. They are called specifically Crinum augustum 'Queen Emma'

The white are in the foreground.

The only photo of the painting...a work-in progress taken very early  on.

Anyway, back to the garden......


Crinum augustum 'Queen Emma'

I realized I was the morning's entertainment for one of the locals....This is the American anole, or Anolis carolinensis, one of three species of lizard that are abundant here in my yard. The other two are gecko varieties. These anoles change color, like a chameleon, but this one was either asleep, distracted, or complacent.

Interesting to see one of them stay green on a brown leaf....

Last but not least, the most controversial resident of the Big Island...
a coqui hanging out in the pond.

A downpour cut Friday's wanderings short, and left me some time to head into the studio!