National Tropical Botanical Gardens

Aloha Cousins~Here in Hawaii, older ladies are referred to as Auntie and friends/family are known as "cousins/cous".  The first time I heard the phrase "Auntie", I thought it was our friends "aunt" until she gently explained the meaning.  Yesterday was a bright and beautiful day here and we had a great time touring the Allerton garden; beware you may be in for photo overload. I have narrowed down the photos for each day and hope you thoroughly enjoy them.  Here in Kauai, the temps have been in the 70's, some days with a cold wind blowing and overcast skies.  Being the Ca. girl I was and now Colorado girl, I love warmer temps, like they have on Maui or the big Island.  I am thankful for the wind though, because the big island is having some issues with smoke/ash from the volcano, so the wind blows it all out to sea and we are not impacted by it.
If you ask me what the botanical names of the plants are, I couldn't tell you-we were too busy getting photos and lagged behind on the tour a bit. 

Love the bull frogs here.

The small gray fish are Talapia-yep what some of us use for Fish Tacos.

Bird of Paradise

Rose Ginger

Three wahinies, from left-me, Peggy and Judy

So many cool water falls, all flowing by gravity, no pumps.

Well, it is another golf day here and I'll be without a car, so think I'll just visit all of you and sit out by the pool, reading.  This weekend the weather is supposed to get really wet and cold, so I'm not sure what we'll be doing.  Next week more of the same is forecast; so I told hubby he needs to get out on the links, as much as possible. It's hard to believe our time is half over but this nana is really missing her grands. 

Have a blessed weekend dear ones! Noreen