Chloe, our greyhound, getting a tan.

Afternoon clouds moving in on the ridgeline. In the rainy season it sometimes rains down where we are but generally we can stand in the sunshine and watch it rain higher up.

More afternoon clouds.

The pineapple garden. Each Pineapple plant produces a single fruit - it takes about 18 months for the plant to mature and 4-6 months for the fruit to develop.

More pineapple plants. After a plant has produced one fruit, it will usually produce one or more subsidiary plants ("pups") which will each produce a fruit. You can separate the pups and plant them separately.

Argiope Appensa, the common black-and-yellow garden spider. Sometimes refererred to as the "St. Andrews Cross" Spider from the shape of the camouflage woven into the web.

Lillikoi (Passion Fruit) vines. These will take over the earth if not firmly pruned.

Lillikoi fruit. When ripe, these turn yellow and get wrinkly. You don't eat the fruit, you scoop out the seeds from the center and drain the juice. Its great for sweetening ice tea, margaritas, and other tropical drinks, and makes a good jelly.

Tangerine tree. Our fruit trees are doing better now that I fertilized them and started watering them more.

Our clump of banana "trees". The banana is actually a large herbacaeous plant, not a real "tree".

Bananas. After a stalk produces a bunch of bananas it dies. You cut the dead stalks down and the plant produces new ones. Right now we have 2 stalks with bananas (LOTS of bananas) developing.