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The steel rebar makes a subject for still life photography, resplendent in their rusty elegance. Some of the ties for the foundation forms, these hold the two sides of the plywood form together, spaced at rougly 24" intervals. They are removed and brokern off after the forms are stripped off the cured concrete walls.

Everywhere you look on this tropical Island there are flowers, flowering shrubs, flowering trees, flowering perennials and even budding cactii. This specimen is a Blue Plumbago (Plumbago auriculata), a South African evergreen shrub known for it's lilac blue flowers that bud throughout ther year.

Another shrub that resembles what we know as the rhodedendron, this specimen also produces a similar flower. It is actually a Plumeria Temple Tree (Plumeria rubra), a native of Hawaii, often used in the manufacturing of leis.