Refuge for the travelers, Jim Kassy Lynnie Metro Ican Rachel

Lebanese Pasta is fresh diced tomato, black, green and kalamata olives crumbled, garlic slivers, ground lamb and ground chicken, red and green bell pepper, mushrooms and onion sauted with basil. cilantro and olive oil, with crumbled Feta cheese served over whole grain penne pasta.

and you call yourself lazy----sounds time consuming to me.

And here we found out why they were on the go. Chow time!!!!

Food processor makes it very easy......

nice safe place from hunters. ok I'm outtav here enjoyed the chats. Moon work on that on star may have free tickets to Hawaii if ya punch the right buttons lol Kassy you and Dave keep the pictures rolling enjoy them alot. Take care all, will catch up later.

Here is yesterday's dinner & today's lunch.

Red Mushroom Sauce over whole grain Angelhair, with cooked greens (miniature Bok Choy).

Few plants are adapted to the habitat in sub-alpine Mauna Loa.

One of them is the Hawaiian Bluebery; Ohelo, Vaccinium reticulatum.

Sounds yummy. The blue berries look so tasty.

I just went and put an end to this guys dinner....ate a big chunk out of my crinum Asiaticum...

Called a Southeastern Lubber...this guy is not the largest we've done in, either.

Here is Vaccinium dentatum a closely related species , known as Ohelo La'au, as it's more astringent fruit is used for medicine.

Jean, that critter looks like a monster!!! How big was it?

Kassy, those frogs are sooo cute! and your grasshopper also. Is that a deer refuge?

Dave, I assume that is an anole. I never thought they were cute until I saw a girl on TV put one to sleep and dress it up in clothes. So funny! I just bet you don't have a TV also.

Does that HI Bluebery have berries? Such amazingly different plants and trees you have growing there.

Jean, Keep that thing down there!!!!!!!

I agree, keep them! The joke up here was that in Florida they had bugs as big as a cat! Well, my sister-in-law was attacked by one!

This is another Ohelo La'au, but gets a couple meters tall; Vaccinium calycinum.
This Vaccinium is usually found in old growth forest; the previous two species are more prevalent in newer habitats.

So pretty.

Bugs as big as cats???
I sure hope not because I have a 20 pound cat that is almost 3 feet long when he is stretching out............LOL

She was just shy of four inches....and a rare all black one, we have them with green, yellow and/or white markings and combinations of them with black. The largest I have seen was just at 5 inches long....Bleech!


They are nick-named Devil Horses, Wood-Devils, Creosote grasshoppers and Tobacco-Spit grasshoppers

The deer are protected at a park by Lake Michigan that we went to.
Keep the rock away from Lynn......LOL

How the heck do you expect us to play keep away with that thing Kassy....grin

JUST 4 inches long!!! Very scarry!

I don't see many grasshoppers here. I remember the tobacco- spitting onces as a kid. We would hold them long enough until they spit their tobacco. Now I think that is kind of gross.

Kassy, don't you have 3 cats and we have seen just one? If not I have you mixed up with someone else.

I have seen some awful big cock-roache's in Florida, but they would not stop me from living there;-)

Keep those picture's coming everyone. I am enjoying tham all.

More pictures?

Kea and Ku wanna see more too.

I'll try an' see what I can do!

HIYA Rachel. Hope ya had a nice day today. Good to see you.

We have huge cockroaches here too....yuk

I have had a very good day Jean and hope you have as well. Enjoyed your rainbow picture...thank's for going outside in the pouring rain to capture it for us all.

Oh, Dave is a rhymer!! I guess Kea and Ku like to read the news!

I just couldn't stand living down there with all those monster bugs. Went camping once in Florida and swimming in the Gulf. The jelly fish really creeped me out!

Lake Michigan is in the back ground here.

It was pouring behind me in my yard, but not in the neighbor's yet....slow moving clouds....grin Thanks Rachel.

Hi Rachel!

OH No, Lake Michigan sprang a leak....EEK....

Ya get used to it Venice. We used to catch those guys and tie thread around them and take them for walks when we were kids...and have spitting contests.....disgusting huh?


NAMES David, NAMES....grin

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Funny Kassy!
Nice pics...yours too Dave, I was getting zone envy looking at those!

LOL Moon

Yes, venice I have 3. The one you have probably seen is the one that makes the road trips with me up here to my BF's. I'll see if I can dig up a picture of my big guy.
In the mean time, I'll give eveyone a flower or weed to try to figure out what it is.
It was growning in the rocks on Lake Michigan..............I want it!!!

Hi Lynnie, got any cookies left? It is almost time for dessert....grin

This is my big guy venice, and that white thing behind him is a yard stick.
Kind of tells you how big he is.

Why are they loading this picture?

You guy's made me hungry all over again after I re-read "slowly" what everyone was fixing for dinner tonight. It was Mexican for me this evening! Got to have it from time to time;-)

Dave, is that a picture of a young Metrosideros seedling?

Yes, a young flowering plant!

More native plants on the way!

I put in the picture of my big cat because venice asked about my other cats Dave.

Old growth 'Ohi'a forest produces a variety of rare plants!

Is that a type of Grevallea Dave?

Here is a rare Sub-alpine sedge, Gahnia gahniformis.