4 January 2018

VAKANUINUI  VINAKA  NI  YABAKI  VOU !!!

(My Fijian teacher taught me the wrong thing last week – this is the right way to say Happy New Year as a greeting.)

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All flora, no fauna this week.  The blog-year is off to a pitiful start.

This is the flower of the island pine we have (in the casuarina family).

This is the mature flower off the tree.  It is supposed to have little seeds in every hole.  Poor old girl tree.  No seeds.

So this week Austin got All Excited because he found out that one of his other pine trees is a male!

Here’s a close up of the male flower.

(Interesting, but not as interesting as pulling sensitive grass, which is what I was doing as this discovery was being made.  Still going at it, too.)

The other excitement is that our own pomegranates are fruiting.

Yum!

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In other news we got another grandchild – Noah Kazuki  (Peaceful, Bringer of Light) – doing well with mum, dad and big brother in Japan.  We are eager to hold him!

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May your 2018 be magnificent!

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