Hurricane Earl.

Yesterday afternoon, we tried to clean up the deck as best we could in preparation for Earl's arrival. My living room now has all my plants in it.

Junior knows this is not right.

This is where my plants were. I'll let Earl wash that away.

I left my jade plant and my aloe on the south side. Don't think they'll be going anywhere.

The grill and the chair are tied to the railing. I've seen gusts of wind just blow that grill right across the deck.

My moonflower and hyacinth bean vine are staying.

Here's the calm before the storm.

Now for the morning after:

I hope I don't lose my bay tree. I was able to walk out on the deck and pick bay leaves. Can't do that now, since it's leaning so much.

The pool is a mess. Never put a pool around willow trees.

Poor amaranthus, aka love lies bleeding.

Lot of mess in the yard.

Couple inches of standing water in the driveway.

Downed amaranthus which just started blooming.

That's my leaning bay tree. I'm keeping my fingers crossed on this.

A few branches in the yard.

Junior's having great fun in the puddles.

Still blowing. It's low tide now. High tide in about 5 hours. Hopefully I won't have to go down to utility room and garage to move stuff to higher ground. That would be a ginormous pain in the ass.