Flora and Fauna

Little Beach, South Maui. Ashley is an ET with a new hat from a friend.
It is pretty.
WWOOFing is dangerous business.
Bananas grow upright. Very proper.
Mystery ET baby bananas.
Buddhahaha heads come only in the large or x-tra large variety on Maui.
Feral Femininity II.
Blue ETs on Tree ETs.
This is obviously an ET posing as a Noni fruit.
Red sunburst from a flower.
Mystery Chinese lantern fruit we like to munch upon.
Who put that bug there?
Oh that's better.
Wowza!
No alterations of color on any of these photos.
What is this?
Everywhere and in my hair.
Ornamental plants.
Murky dreamscape.
The obligatory Hawaii flower photo for all the folks back home waiting for this one. But the question is... how can it be black in the background if the sun is illuminating the flower? What is the black?

What is the black?