More Typhoon

Yesterday the typhoon let up a bit in the morning, so I decided on a stroll down to the ocean and back. A friend in a neighboring town said after 03/11 she had nightmares in her seaside apartment and asked to be moved, which she was, to a slightly more inland dwelling. Although I live four blocks from giant walls of concrete and tetrapods of contorted construction, neither of which will hold back Poseidon's storm should it happen in my time, I am singularly unconcerned with it. I don't know why. I guess I would prefer to live in mortal fear of the plethora of poisonous insects and centipedes rather than the off-chance that the ocean will try to kill me in the next 50 years. Which, statistics say, it will.

I tried to capture the drip, drip, drops falling into this
trench, but I think I need a more advanced camera
or a more cultivated eyeball.

 The fact of the rain also makes this a tropical rainforest subclimate (maybe?). We have gobs of neon-colored flowers that I have only recently decided to actually take pictures of. But they are everywhere, probably thirty different kinds that I have noticed, some of which I don't think I have seen before, some I have seen in Spain and California and Texas.

That's all. Just some pretty flowers in the rain.