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Over the weekend, a middle school teacher, Kahealani David, 41, and her 12-year-old daughter, Vaihere, brought bird of paradise flowers as an offering to leave on the cooled lava from previous eruptions.

Titus Cromwell, 4, placed a bird of paradise flower picked from his family’s home, in Oakland’s Fruitvale district, on the gate across from the warehouse Sunday morning.

The Pataloha shirts in the ’80s paid homage to the original Aloha shirts with bright red or turquoise backgrounds and exotic patterns like birds of paradise flowers.

The images of emerald chasms, gleaming waterfalls and brilliantly tinged bird of paradise flowers were the very essence of the tropics.

One envies those men who gathered all the paradise flowers half opened, and could watch them bloom.