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Flora and fauna, mostly flora

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Things grow rampantly here. Things I've had as house plants take over whole patches of garden, or climb energetically up tall trees, like this split-leaf philodendron. Even plants I think of as desert-y, like agave and aloe, seem to thrive. As I found out when I tried to trim out some dead parts of the agave in Steve's yard and nearly slashed my arms to ribbons. Prickly pear cactus grow wild, and other cacti are happy here, too. We go to all the botanical gardens we come across, delighted to find bizarre and beautiful exotics that flourish here. And we've become seriously enamored of the endless variety of camellias. There are a few roses in bloom, in addition to the usual suspects: bougainvillea and azaleas. In the fauna department, we continue to find things we can't identify, but assume are critters, or critter remains, on the beach. This thing has me stumped: And the brown blobs remain a mystery. This one attache