Green

Our desert island has turned green and lush. The rains have affected everything.  My orchids have been blooming for a month.  They are bigger and better than last year.  Our neighbors have toad stools in their yard.  All of my rough wood outdoor furniture are growing mushrooms or something similar because they have been wet for so long.  Our wood doors barely open or close because of swelling wood. Our wood deck is becoming spongy due to constantly being wet. There are puddles (some are lake like) on all the roads. It's always interesting to drive never knowing if the puddle is deep or shallow.

All of our bushes and trees have gown out of control.  We spend several days a week trimming and cutting the jungle that is growing in our yard.  Our neighbor mulches everything so we drag our cuttings to his house. It's like having a personal dump next door without going to the landfill.

The palm trees constantly drop wood from past trimming.  It's a battle to remove the dead leaf stalks from the trunks.  It's a whole new way of gardening.  Things grow so fast. I was looking at pictures of our house from two years ago and the trees have grown by five to eight feet in just two years.