Thursday, September 26, 2024 →
I made mention that in an earlier post of the Pacific Golden Plover, or kōlea, which visits Hawaii for the winter. This morning I tried to capture some photos of a Plover feeding in our front garden. They are fairly tame, and there is still a limit as to how close that I can get to them. There is also a limit to the resolution of my iPhone 13 Mini zooming in. But here is an effort to share a visiting Plover with you.
Thursday, September 26, 2024 →
A crescent, waning moon high in the sky at dawn this morning as I stepped outside.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 →
This morning’s rainbow 🌈
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 →
Hello Kitty - I felt as though I was being followed today.
This morning’s rainbow 🌈
A self seeding fern growing out of fence post.
There is still a week and a half to go before September ends, and this is the site that greeted me when I walk into Lowe’s this afternoon. One of those big figures was singing Christmas songs. Meanwhile outside the sun beat down with late summer heat.
Words escape me.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 →
Watching my grandson playing football (soccer) last Saturday morning. His team won 3 - 1. I was sitting to the left where there are a crowd of people on the touchline, but the sun was brutally hot and I had to take shelter under the shade of a tree. Those tent structures were all accounted for!
Another game this Saturday.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 →
Homemade egg pasta drying.
This evening’s rainbow with a Plumeria tree in the foreground (and experimenting with Halide app’s Process Zero). 🌈
Spotted while out walking just off the shore line, at the end of last week. Someone or some people had been cleaning up debris that had washed ashore.
Seeing the work of these good people reminded me of a quote that went something like this,
You can’t throw things away. You can only put them where you can’t see them anymore.
Picked from under the tree and ready for a quick lunchtime snack.
And then there is this evening’s rainbow, two if you look close. Two minutes later it started raining and the rainbow was gone 🌈
I might live to regret posting this commitment 🫠, but today I started using Duolingo to learn Portuguese. I realize that Duolingo’s Portuguese is Brazilian and those in the know tell me that there are differences, but I would like to use Duolingo to get me going. As a backup, I have another app that has European Portuguese, it just does not have an ongoing program.
About a year ago @jean shared some resources with me which definitely helped, Portuguese went from being a series of sounds to indentifiable words starting to shine through. However, I feel that I need a lower level commitment. A challenge, yes, but I need to change the pace of that challenge.
I’ll see where Duolingo can take me. Day one completed.
“I hope that something good happens to you today.”
A sticker encrusted sign at the local gas station.
Wet mornings.
Wind and rain this morning. Not as bad as the Big Island which is taking the brunt of the weather, but Tropical Storm, now Category 1 Hurricane, Hone has arrived in the islands.
Coriander Micro Greens, almost ready to be harvested.
It looks as though Hawai’i is in the direct firing line of these two Tropical Storms. The eye of closer storm, Tropical Storm Hone, is due to be close to the Southern Point of the Big Island of Hawai’i Saturday night into Sunday morning. Then according to The National Weather Service,
…Hone will then strengthen to a Hurricane late Sunday as it passes south of Oʻahu and Molokaʻi.
Sprouting again. It feels rewarding to see the seeds grow.
Shadows in the night.
I received this electronic sticker by email today. My first vote in a US Presidential Election since becoming a US citizen in 2022. The Hawaii Primaries.
Young puppy, Mochi, my step-daughter’s little French Bulldog getting curious about the sheep next door. What is not shown is the other sheep and cow looking on. How wet it was that afternoon. How I had to push my way through a hedge to get to Mochi, and go back through it once I had Mochi. How Mochi was in no hurry to be picked up, and by the time that I did get to him, he was covered in mud…and then ran straight back down to the animals once I had cleaned him off.
Oh the mischievousness of youth…whatever the breed.
This jigsaw puzzle was very satisfying to do, and the collage of images looks better in the completed puzzle than the image on the box. Some fun, whimsical pieces in there as well. 🧩
Playing around again with Cinemin by Tinrocket, a couple of evenings ago.
I’m in the middle of doing this jigsaw puzzle showing a collage of various traditional British pub exteriors and signage. A puzzle that my mother gave to me. I love doing puzzles. The process relaxes me. Doing this one I’m finding is also making me homesick. There is nothing like a British pub and I am no longer around them. I miss them.
This morning’s rainbow 🌈
I’ve been playing around with Tinrocket’s relatively new app Cinemin. While admiring what they can do, I do not normally choose to use apps that give photographs a artistic look, this one I am enjoying though. The images that Cinemin produces is,
Inspired by traditional animation art and films
Here are a couple of my first dabbles with the app, conjoined by Tinrocket’s collage app, Photo Tape.
This evening’s sunset view from home.
Between the rainbow this morning and this sunset, the day has felt oddly discombobulated. Slowly productive, but sort of disjointed along the way.
