Photographs

These two were out for a stroll this morning.

Another snail I saw making its way across the driveway. An hour later it was almost across. Oh to live such an unhurried life.

Two snails crawling through the grass. A sunny hillside is seen in the distance.

This evening’s double rainbow 🌈

A partial double rainbow disappearing into thick dark cloud. Below is a thick hedge and lawn with a green propane tank in the middle of the hedge.

Yesterday’s trip to the Green Waste dump here on Maui was like visiting a scene from a post-apocalyptic movie set.

A cloudy sky with patches of blue showing. Below a very large pile of green waste sits on dry dirt with coconut husks and pallets lying beside it. Debris blows through the air.

The trade winds were blowing strong and a machine was turning over the pile of composting waste, sending debris blowing everywhere. As I got out of the truck, waste blew into the truck before I could get the door closed. It blew into my face and under my sun glasses as I tried to get my green waste out of the back of the truck. I sort of adopted a sideways stance to counter what was blowing so violently through the air.

Opening the truck door again blew more waste in. I put the air conditioning full on to clear the air as I drove away.

A truck sits dwarfed by two huge piles of compost sitting on dry earth. A machine turns the compost over, sending debris flying through the air. Above is a cloudy sky.

I scraped this mud wasp nest off the floor, under a chair while moving furniture over the weekend. It had long since been vacated, but still was well and truly stuck to the floor.

A mud wasp nest after being scraped off the floor. Three holes show the entrances for the lava.

Changing it up a bit. This morning’s in house rainbow 🌈

Refracted sun light causing a spectrum of light, a rainbow, to be displayed on the wall. In front of it is a metal mesh shelf and some poles.

This morning’s rainbow 🌈

A partial rainbow is seen against a big white cloud in a blue sky. This is above a lot of vegetation and lawn.

This evening’s double rainbow, seen over a hedge and through the Betel Nut and Lychee trees.

A double rainbow against a cloudy sky with patches of blue, over a green hedge partially lit by the sun.

A rainbow seen behind tall Betel Nut trees and a Lychee Tree with fruit.

Current events informed our movie watching choice last night, though my wife did not make it to the end. 🍿

A review of the movie Conclave where the reviewer appreciated the attention to detail in the film, and through the movie’s staging felt sequestered along with the Cardinals. He liked the film.

This morning’s rainbow, and a shadow of me. 🌈

A vibrant rainbow arcs over a lush green field with dense shrubs and a partly cloudy sky.

A faint rainbow arches across a partly cloudy sky with a hint of blue.

Two shots of yesterday evening’s rainbow 🌈

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I forgot to post this rainbow from yesterday evening 🌈

Against a grey cloudy sky, a rainbow arches over a green vegetation made up of a lawn, trees and bushes.

Two views of this morning’s Easter double rainbow 🌈

A vibrant double rainbow arcs over a lush garden with various plants and a clear sky.

A beautiful double rainbow arches over a lush green landscape with a partly cloudy blue sky.

Looking over a wall from Kihei in South Maui towards the West Maui Mountains as Kona storm crept in on Thursday of this last week. There was thunder,lightning and heavy rain.

Looking over rocks built into a cement wall, towards some mountains and the ocean. Grey storm clouds overhead.

A beautiful view this afternoon from the cliffs near to Ho’okipa Beach Park. The island of Moloka’i is in the distance.

The blue sky with patchy cloud stretches to the horizon over a blue ocean. In the distance to the left is the island of Moloka’i. In the foreground is grass and a pathway. The sun shines down on the scene.

Adolescence covered a difficult and concerning subject, and did it so well. Well worth your time…

A review of the Netflix series Adolescence. The review felt that the series was excellent even if the material was concerning.

I’ve just added to new page to my website, Rainbows.

Given that I post so many photos of rainbows on this site, I decided to collect them all together using Micro.blog’s Photo Collections feature. As of today there are 89 photographs of rainbows here. The page will update as I add more…as I’m sure that I will!

Evening rainbow 🌈

Faint rainbow in a cloudy sky with a glimpse of a roof top in the bottom right of the photograph.

This morning’s rainbow 🌈

A faint rainbow rises up out of shrubbery over a tree with a blue sky and scattered cloud behind.

This morning’s rainbow 🌈

A lush green lawn is bordered by a variety of plants, with a faint rainbow visible against a partly cloudy sky in the distance

I watched season 3 of The White Lotus because I had seen the previous two seasons, but…

A review of season 3 of the mini series The White Lotus. The reviewer did not think much of the series. A poster of the series is to the left of the review.

Wispy clouds at dusk.

Wispy clouds against a blue and clear sky with some faint oranges and yellows in the clouds at dusk. All this above the silhouette of vegetation and a hill top.

This morning’s rainbow 🌈

A faint rainbow, against a blue and cloudy sky, arches over vegetation and hills.

Evening light from a couple of nights ago.

A dark silhouette of trees and bushes is set against a dusky sky with scattered clouds. Faint lights can be seen from houses.

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A glowing review of the Genesis album, Seconds Out from 1977.

We were blessed with three rainbows this morning (or maybe they were manifestations of the same one?), shown below in the order in which they appeared. 🌈

Tall palm trees and lush greenery stretch across a landscaped area under a partly cloudy blue sky. A rainbow appears between two of the trees.

A vibrant rainbow arches across a partly cloudy sky above a lush, grassy landscape with various shrubs and trees.

A peaceful landscape features lush greenery and palm-like shrubs under a blue sky with a faint rainbow.

I watched Look Back last night. 🍿

A review of the anime film Look Back gets a mainly positive rating, with a comment on the strong portrayal of grief.

This morning’s faint rainbow. 🌈

A faint rainbow against a grey, cloudy sky, rises over a landscape of vegetation with a lawn in the foreground.

The weather had been hazy today, maybe VOG, though if so the wind kept it at bay. The day got increasingly cloudy and by sunset the sky turned a multitude of colours. Here are a few of the patterns that appeared.

A cloudy sky gives way to reds, yellows and colors in between closer to the horizon, just above the ocean at sunset. In the foreground is a lawn and vegetation surrounding it.

A (Praying) Mantis in the grass. I was pleased to see this one. It had been lying on some concrete 24 hours earlier looking none to happy. I had moved it to the earth beneath the grass. Assuming that it was the same one, it must be feeling better to have had some strength to climb up the grass.

A mantis holding onto tall green grass that it had climbed up.

They are coming thick and fast at the moment. This afternoon’s double rainbow. 🌈

A vibrant rainbow arcs over a lush green hedge and a leafless tree, with a concrete wall and driveway in front, on a clear day.