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Suva Reimagined

I spent nearly a year in Suva back in 2003. Since then, my overwhelming memory of Suva was constant rain and clouds. I’ve been telling people for years that Suva experiences non-stop rain. When I arrived in April 2019 again, it started to rain and didn’t stop for 2 weeks, and I thought, “Yep, this is what I remember.” But then the rain stopped and winter set in and May to September were gorgeous… weeks and weeks of clear blue sky, cool temperatures, nice breezes. What a lovely surprise. It shows how our memory can fail us.

This weekend started to get hot. We took a long walk to town, explored some smaller back streets and found this lovely little cut-through.

Orchids

In April 2019 we moved from the US to Fiji (its a long story and I haven’t been on the blog recently…..).  So, I got to start a new tropical orchid collection.  I inherited 5 plants from the office helper, Mili.  But, I didn’t have a spray bottle and neglected to get one, so they didn’t get watered much for a few months.  I thought they were all dead when I finally got a spray bottle and started watering them.  They had dropped their leaves and were looking pretty bad.

Then, last week, one of them perked up with some buds and then bloomed – my first blooming orchid.  🙂  Yay!

Dendrobium fimbriatum