The Winter Solstice, the Jupiter and Saturn in conjunction, AND Melissa and my 13th wedding anniversary. A day of auspiciousness. 😊 Here’s a fun picture of us in England five years ago, on a cold winter’s day. ❤️
Photographs
Listening to Essential Carols - The Very Best of King’s College Choir, Cambridge by Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. 🎵
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 →
Another book that arrived today from Powell’s Books (thanks to a book token that I was given over a year ago 🤦🏼♂️). A very old copy of Now We Are Six I owned, that was falling to pieces, I foolishly passed on when clearing out. I have missed it ever since. Wrong now righted!
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 →
I can’t remember who on Micro.blog mentioned this book? It was a while ago. A long while ago from my memory, but at long last I have bought my own copy. It’s beautifully presented. I look forward to delving into it, and exploring the aromas and tastes that it hints at.
Silhouette and star at sunset.
Set up and in place. We have a HomePod in another bigger space. This Mini is in a small room & I think has an incredible sound for its size. Its big brother has a richer sound, but I am very happy with this purchase. Along with a family plan, music can now be played in 2 rooms.
After a wonderful online seminar this morning for men who identify as highly sensitive, I went for a walk to move the body and rest weary eyes.
Here are some photographs - courtesy of Martin Caprile, MJC HAWAII, www.martincaprile.com - of Jaws and those who surfed it a couple of days ago. One copied here, the others can be found on the Maui Now website.
I went over to the south side of Maui yesterday evening to meet with a couple of good friends. We sat on the beach and chatted until long after the sun had set. At dusk I saw my first water spout of the season, a sign of the humpback whales who come to these waters to calf.
A little Christmas colour to add to the already present colours in Maui Mall. 🎄
Loan mushroom on a stormy day.
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 →
A little gecko sitting on the a/c controls.
I haven’t put up a rainbow photo for a while. This one is from this morning. 🌈
An old business center in Lahaina, Maui.
A couple of hours ago we were sitting on a beach, and I was looking for shade it was so hot. Now this….well I did want rain! 🌧
Yesterday evening’s walk along Baldwin Beach, just catching the sunset.
And “Dinosaur Family” from yesterday evening. 🦖🦕
Last night’s costume - front & side views! In order to keep the costume inflated there was a small fan blowing inside the dinosaur. It served the additional role of built in air conditioning against the warm Hawai’ian evening.
My grandson’s new favourite song:
I Love Hawaii (feat. Nyjah Music & Zyah Rhythm) - Single by Tammy Moniz 🎵
I was out on slug patrol tonight in the vegetable garden, I pick up snails & slugs and move them a long way away. I lifted up some parsley and saw something that I had never seen before - 40, 50, 60(?) baby snails. They are the grey dots on the earth.
The clouds and wind are growing. I’m hoping that this means some rain after a very hot, dry spell. This is very much fingers crossed 🤞🏻 as rain has been forecast before and nothing materialized.
Giggle Hill, the name of the park and the hill, from the ground.
Plumeria flowers in Hana, Maui.
Kyoto, Japan - October 2016.
Memories of visiting Saiho-ji and it’s beautiful moss gardens in October 2016.
The carpet of moss in the garden.
And a magical grotto formed around a small lake.
Happy memories of sitting around this fire pit last night, chatting until late.
For the “A Day In The Life” Micro.blog photo challenge.
🗺 Lunch at All Kine Maui Grindz in Haiku Marketplace, Haiku, HI.
🕰 1:35PM HST
🍽 Eggplant tofu
Last Saturday a friend & I hiked Haleakala crater. We left the summit at just after sunrise and we’re back at our vehicle 8 hours later. We arrived at the summit just before sunrise, and as the sun crested over the horizon, the park rangers invoked a Hawaiian chant to welcome its arrival
Pre-sunrise it was cold 🥶. No amount of clothing seemed to keep the cold at bay, but as we set off the rising sun did its job of warming up the thin air.
And so we headed down into the crater. We were blessed with beautiful weather all day, the thinner air of altitude increasing the felt exposure to the sun.
On the way down we passed Silver Swords, a plant and species that is endemic to this crater.
Some of the views of the barren valley floor. Haleakala crater is actually a collapsed mountain. This explanation will not be very scientific, but there use to be a mountain “covering” this cater which has slowly eroded over the years.
Some of the iron and sulphur colouring of the rocks.
A local Né Né goose amidst changing vegetation.
An old lava tube with the preserved ripples of lava still visible.
Heading towards the wall that we would climb to leave the crater.
Views as we climbed out of the crater, first as the cloud rolled in from the east side of Maui, and then looking back into the crater. I left exhausted, aching (I’m still feeling it), but exhilarated and grateful for a wonderful day.
Early morning view.
A view from within Haleakala crater from yesterday’s walk.
