Seeing blue....

Our friend, Francia will be opening a new school on March 8th, so we're trying to help her get things ready - my project has been to refurbish some old desks - they arrived looking like this:

And, after cleaning an painting, they looked like this

They started accumulating -

so once they got dry enough, Francia started transporting them back to the school... BTW, the finished project looked like this:

Going Bananas ....

The two photos above are of an emerging, and emerged flower of an edible type of banana --- possibly these don't look too impressive, but the plum-type bud is bigger than a 5# bag of sugar... quite impressive.

The following banana flower doesn't produce edible fruit (at least not according to MY taste-buds), but it's pretty; hummingbirds love the flowers and it's fast growing - which is fine for now, but could eventually prove to be a problem:

& now for my personal favorite - this plant is +/- 6 feet tall and the blossom is about the size of my laptop - purely decorative, but IMHO, this 'torch banana' is pure food for the soul!

The reason we originally chose this property -

Was the creek that borders the East side of our lot - this is the upstream view:

These rocks relocated to our yard during a major flood a little over a year ago -

Didn't realize how fast the water moves on a normal day, did you?

And on the creek goes, rushing down the mountain to meet the river and then on to the Pacific...