Friday, July 3, 2009

Not all tropical palms and orchids....

This is the countryside surrounding our development, land belonging to the Ulapalakua Ranch. Occasionally we hear cows lowing, and see paniolos (cowboys) fixing fences. Once I saw the unmistakable evidence of a cow left on the pavement -- it must have gotten into the neighborhood through a broken fence. But this is what our yards would look like if we did not irrigate.

The mountain in the distance in two of the pictures is Haleakala, our volcano.



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