Allamanda Metal Print

The Golden Trumpet Vine is a common sight in gardens with year-round warmth and plenty of sun like Hawaii where I live. I built a trellis for this beautiful plant a few years ago. It has bright green foliage and abundant yellow flowers. Its common name is Allamanda, but also goes by Cup of Gold.

I've lived in Hawaii since 2002, 1200 feet above sea level, on the small rural island of Moloka'i. It is very quiet here, with only about 7,400 residents. I appreciate the quiet life after spending 35 years as a commercial illustrator, senior art director and design director for major advertising agencies and design studios in Chicago, San Francisco and Palo Alto California. I've always loved cooking. In 2002 that love led me to a degree in the Culinary Arts just before moving to Hawaii. Since then I designed and built a house, worked in local restaurants, self-published three cookbooks, and took up photography as a hobby. Now retired, I spend most of my time developing recipes and photographing them, plus researching and writing...