Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Around the Next Corner

Top: A Ted Trimmer Beauty













Christmas Tree & Palm




It's called 'fishing' not 'catching.' Why isn't it 'taxi waiting' rather than 'taxi driving?'



Street Hula!




"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."
- Rainer Maria Rilke

"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
- Robert Adams


"Some people have too much uniqueness to be properly expressed by a merely pretty face."
- Anonymous


Everywhere we walk in Waikiki there are flowers, smiles, hidden patches of green, and quiet gardens to discover. Blossoms drift down on the trade wind breezes, I call it Hawaiian Snow; beguiling to the eye. Thought's train pulls once again into a beautifully peaceful station. . . The song of birds plays filigree, an arabesque, a siren's call. . . All punctuated by the normal sounds of today, rolling in from the boulevard. But look! Around this corner is a trio of living treasure; their music acoustic, burnished, simple, & true. . . . . . so linger beneath the tropical Christmas tree, as Palm looks on bemused, chuckling softly to herself, and dances . . . dances an unconscious hula of her own . . . . .
A L O H A! Cloudia




16 comments:

The Grandpa said...

Hawaiian Snow is a beautiful image, Cloudia. And so is Thought's train pulling into a beautifully peaceful station.

Nice post.

Cloudia said...

Grandpa:
Thanks for your visits and words!

Yolanda said...

It is so pretty there. I hope you have a good holiday.

Akelamalu said...

Such beautiful pictures and even more beautiful are the pictures you paint with your words Cloudia. x

Anonymous said...

glad I stumbled on this blog!

Dina said...

Thanks for your visit to Jerusalem Hills. Welcome!
Your pictures and words on Hawaii and your quotations are great. I'll be back for more.
Shalom to you, aloha.

laughingwolf said...

very poetic, words and pics, thx cloudia :D

FANCY said...

ALOHA

Fabulous picture and words...I want to be there...dancing the hula hula...;)

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Lyzzydee said...

The top photo is amazing, I love to see where everyone else lives,
Christmas in Hawaii I bet thats an experience that I'll never have!!

Sepiru Chris said...

Dear Cloudia,

I agree with The Grandpa regarding the imagery.

All the best,
Chris

DeniseinVA said...

Oh my, that top photo is stunning, but I love all your photos and your narrative, quotes. This is a super blog and I always enjoy my visit. Thanks Cloudia. Happy Thanksgiving.

RiverPoet said...

I love the Robert Adams quote. Sounds like something Authorblog (David McMahon) would say!

Peace - D

claude said...

The first photo is really nice !

Dave King said...

The Christmas Tree and Palm did it for me. Really great composition.

Brother Tobias said...

Looks heavenly; we need street hula over here, to cheer us up after this week's snow.

(And shouldn't it be the customers not the staff who are called 'waiters' in restaurants?)

Barbara Martin said...

"an arabesque, a siren's call. . ." Such a wonderful phrase to inspire creativity for a short story.