I will miss this.

File under cruel ironies: as Uzee and I gear up to leave Honolulu, the flowers on our patio are going berserk.

We've had mixed success with orchids during the four years we've been here, but since moving to our new place in 2010, there have been more successes than filures. And a couple of the plants, in particular, have really loved it here.

Now, the healthy plants are going nuts. It's safe to say that there won't be a lot of flowers like this where we're heading. Sure, there will be plenty of flowers... just not too many orchids growing wild on the front porch.

Even our cactus is blooming. How often does that happen?