I have always been intrigued and fascinated by nature in all forms and created this image in Hollywood Florida where I resided after a fire in my building on Miami Beach before I moved to the Puna District of Hawaii. I planted and grew two bananas plants which are the worlds largest herb in my backyard and used the iridescent  pink and reddish-orange blossoms with some baby green bananas (bananas are considered a berry) and grow in hands off the “trunk”. Banana plants lack a woody stem and grow from a succulent, watery stalk made of tightly packed leaves. I arranged the blossoms with a mesquite branch I found in a thrift shop and painted in multiple coats of enamel paint to resemble a large coral branch. Then I added cherries, persimmons and a whole and halved pityaya also know as dragon fruit surrounded by blue and yellow macaw feathers from Mango, the neighbors bird I befriended as he was in a huge cage near the sidewalk next door. I aimed to balance the colors and shapes on banana leaves from my plants with some aloe vera stalks from my indoor garden and long, fallen Norfolk pine needles and dried ice cream bean pods collected from Hawaii in an oval circle around the tropical bounty.  After living in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand I came to love exotic fruits so this is a reflection on those years combined with flora that was in my Florida environment and also here in my new home in Hawaii.