They Well Soon Bloom

The yellow part is the flower.

Art At The Library

Florida Daphne / Phaleria phalerata

This small tree blooms off and on for the whole year. Some time you don't look up to see the flowers, but you stop to enjoy the fragrance. It smells just like Narcissus papyraceus, the paper white narcissus. The seed pods look like a bunch of red radishes when ripe.

A New Way To Clean Up

The Coconut Palms Are Dying And We Our Getting Oaks

Coral Gables Library

My Public Library

This wing of the Coral Gables Women's Club was the public library for our city until the late 50's. When the county built a public library in the middle of the city, the Women's Club gave the space to a dental clinic for needing children.

In The 30's This Was A Fine House

In the 40's it became an apartment. Now it's back to being a house.

Rainlily, Zephyranthes

And we have had a lot of water.

The City Cut Down Another Ficus Tree

The tree behind is full of white fly and will be dead in 2 or 3 years.

I Didn't See Any Grass

A Door For The Garden

A Handsome Church

This church is across the street from the city hall. The congregation owns 30% of the block. Now developers want to buy the property and build a high rise building. Progress is not necessarily good for the city. It would be like lousing a friend.

Plumeria (common name Frangipani)

Talipot Palm (Corypha umbraculifera)

This specie is one of the rarest among palms. It is so, because the plant needs around 50 or 60 years for its flowers to bloom. And then it dies.