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I absolutely LOVE these flowers. Love love love. And the best thing about Hawaii is that these are EVERYWHERE. They are so perfect that they often look fake. They come in all different varieties--different sizes and colors. You'll see a couple of them here throughout Flower Month!

Welcome to Flower month!! I'm starting with the little flowers that grow right out in front of my house by the mailbox. Cute, sunny, happy little yellow flowers!

Since I have been here in Hawaii (a little over nine months now) I have wanted to take my camera with me on a walk around the neighborhood to take pictures of all of the flowers. There are so many different flowers!! On a five minute walk, I had almost two hundred pictures! After some scaling down, I still had too many for one post. So I decided that next month is FLOWER MONTH!! I have almost enough pictures for a new post/flower every day, so be sure to keep an eye on the blog!

I can't have a post without pictures, so here you go! While we (my mom, my son and I) were on our walk I stopped to take some pictures in front of a yard that, unbeknownst to me, had a guard dog. She scared the ever-living crap out of my son...poor kid.
He was so scared and I felt horrible for not paying enough attention to the yard to see that there was a dog there. This, my friends, is Cinnamon.
She apparently thought that even a seven month old child is a threat because she bolted to the fence and started ferociously barking at my poor stroller-bound baby. Luckily, there was a fence and no harm befell anyone...but poor Gabriel was pretty upset!

These are a few of the fruits that we see dangling, taunting us, on our walks around the neighborhood. Papayas, mangoes and pomelos. I've never had a pomelo until recently. They're like giant grapefruits, only not so bitter. We finally met the people who own the pomelo tree on a recent neighborhood stroll and they gave us a couple to take home and eat! As you can see, my mom was pretty excited...