birthday florals (and leaves)

From dawn onwards, it was a terrific (and beauty-filled) day: here's the view from our room at dawn;

and the view from breakfast.

Some ferns on the way to a huge waterfall;

a shop full of home-made jam;

a flower ...

a garden full of flowers rather unmissably in USC's colors;

extraordinary botanical gardens;

with a gecko seen from underneath;

the botanical gardens led down to the sea;

the view from lunch, in Hilo;

another painted church (this one had been moved in 1990 so that it wasn't swallowed up by a huge lava flow);

and a hibiscus.