Images from Trinidad Carnival 2010captured by Stephen Broadbrideg. All photos copyright Stephen Broadbridge Caribbean Discovery Tours  masqueraders heading to crossing the stageSan Fernando masPictures from Jouvert Morning. From the French Jour... 

Since most of my blooms are just about the same as what I posted the past 3 months, I thought I'd post pictures my friend Aoth took at her family's home in Vientiane, Laos-pointing out the similarities to my blooms.Orchids grown on a tree trunk-where... 

Nan at Hayfield is Seeing Red following Rebecca’s Rainbow invitation to join her in the 'Rainbow Challenge': find a flower for each of the colors of the rainbow and do one post. Like Nan, I am doing the red post first, and to wish you a Happy Valentine’s.... 

Here's another one is for the Caribbean islanders who love ripe plantains. I made this, inspired by the recipe for Plantains with Balsamic-Basil Glaze from Douglas Rodriguez's Latin Flavors on the Grill. This one is a pie, as opposed to grilled. If you... 

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The very architectural looking blooms and spent fruit stalks of the cannonball tree We now pass thorough the bougainvillea arbour to the Bandstand. This is very typical of the design in the mid-eighteen hundreds. There is are very similar bandstands... 

While botanic and public gardens in temperate countries tend to intrigue and charm you with details such as fabulous textures, unusual forms and pattens, making you focus in; such gardens in the tropics tend to make you look up and out-to towering and... 

In Georgetown, Guyana. Among the more exotic offering are caimite, known here as star apple see link and sapodilla, one of my favorite fruits from childhood. Click on the picture above to enlarge, the middle hanging bag of orange fruit is of areca nuts,... 

Splendid (and rare) yellow flamboyant ( Royal Poinciana) in Georgetown, Guyana.I met a kindred spirit in Guyana-a colleague offered me a lift to my next meeting and as we were driving I told him I have a strange request, that I had seen a yellow flamboyant... 

We are now month two into the six best months for gardening on my island-though its been an unseasonably warm winter. Lots of colorful and pretty blooms, like these morning gloryantigonon desert roseKalanchoe blossfeldiana-such a sweet plant, blooms for...