Update From Home

 When Trish and I travel we are curious about how things look back in the island.  Since we have a lot of flowers, we installed a number of cameras that enable us to look at the yards all around the house so we can mark the progress of what is growing there.  It is interesting to see what we are missing and to anticipate what we will find when we get back home.

Our cameras have two way sound, so we can often hear the birds singing and the wind chimes playing.  We can see from the hose on the ground that our friend, Jenny, has been over to water.  There are even times when we see her there and we can talk to her through the cameras.

We can really see that autumn is in the way.  The marigolds are dying down and the zinnias are finishing.  The early sunflowers are finished…there are some late ones still on the way that we do not see yet.  We have hopes for them.

One of our questions at this time of year is about what the banana trees are doing.  Last winter they did not get killed back by a hard freeze and so we got a head start on growth back in the spring here.  You can see here the raja puri variety that grows by our front steps.  What will it so this year?

Surprise!  Jenny just sent us photos of the raji puri in full fruit producing bloom!  Last year it did not bloom until the end of September and then got nipped in early January.  This year it is early enough that we think we will get ripe bananas.  This is a treat worth waiting for!