my carambola - all flowers, no leaves 

Our crepe myrtle defoliated. It is already fully leafed out.

Juanulloa completely defolitated and is flushing.

The laurel cherries in the back completely defoliated. They are an aggressive weed that we keep around for the bees and the birds. I assume they'll recover.

Wild coffee looks good.

Gummichama, pineapple guava, pineapples, rosemary, seashore palm, pindo, and weaping bottlebrush showed no effect from the wind or the salt. These are definitely on my list of "hurricane" tolerant plants now.

Mexican Sage burned to the ground. 50% are re-sprouting I think the others are lost. I didn't expect to see a drought tolerant perenial get hurt so bad.

Lavender mixed in the planting with the sage did great.

Blueberries are trying to come back but they really got hammered.

We planted a "Gulf Beauty" red plum in June. We allegedly get enough chill hours on the west side of the lagoon for it to set fruit even though having spathoglottis orchid bloom straight through the 2016/2017 winter makes me doubt that. All the green new growth stems on the east and south side are torched off. The west and north sides are sprouting new leaves. I guess it it going to be a bit lop sided.

I was inspecting the oaks last night looking for signs of life and ended up watching a pair of owls that were hooting it up. I thought one of them was dive bombing me for being too close but it snatched a bat out of the air about 5 feet above my head. That was pretty awesome. I was just about to duck and cover when she flaired and caught the poor bat. The bat was probably orbiting me enjoying my personal cloud of mosquitos.

Firebush (Hamelia patens) is releafing.  Palms are growing like normal.  Pile of freshly shed leaves for pickup tomorrow, just like a normal summer week.