Thursday, January 19, 2012

Bird of Paradise



It takes little imagination to see why this flower is named the Bird of Paradise. Beautiful!

Hawaii was known for its pineapple growing but those crops have left the islands for lands with cheaper labor, Mexico and the Phillippines. Pineapples are still grown here but on small scale for local consumption only, and do they taste good!

Sugar cane fields grow thick but the sugar processing industry shut down depriving many locals of jobs. The raw sugar gets shipped for processing to California, thus C-H brand sugar.