Muy tropicál

Things like to grow a lot here.

Yesterday I cut the night- blooming hibiscus back at least a foot, to let its neighbors get light under and around it, and today it shouted back with 3 inches of "So there!"

And then there is the ficus ripens, the little creeping fig we want to coat the sides of our front steps.

It's covering the ground on either side, all right -- so much so that I go in every week or so and keep it from choking out everything there. But it's also deployed across the bottom step.

Footfalls keep it in line so far. But I'm fascinated by the regularity of its attempts. (Not to mention those of the volunteer ferns in the brick walkway.)