Seeking the Muse, Honolulu Chinatown

A   L   O   H   A  !

Is This My Beloved Chinatown?

" Those who cannot 

change their minds 
cannot change 
anything. "


George Bernard Shaw

All Signs Point to "Yes"

" When 
a true genius appears, 
you can know her 
by this sign: that all 
the dunces 
are in a confederacy 
against her. "


Jonathan Swift 

Mountains 

Still There

Corrugated Awnings - 

Much Remains the Same

Old Faces Do Hang About.

 He's an "Old Gangsta"

See His forehead?

Have You Ladies Seen 

La Muse of Chinatown?

(The eyes looking upward are 

watching my hands take this shot, see?)

Has ANY-BUNNY 

Seen La Muse?

[Nice Spring Kimono]

Even Maneki-Neko, 

"Beckoning Cat" 

Has New Attitude.

[and some fishy new pals]

Link

As Always There Were 

Hints of Magic & Inspiration.

She Has Been Here -

I Loved 

This Golden Typewriter

When I Downloaded These Pics 

I Found

She Had Been With Me

All Along!


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Chorus

Honolulu Chinatown Mural

A   L   O   H   A  

Lion Dancer!

KWAN YIN

" Flowers may bloom again,
 but a person never has the chance
 to be young again. 
So don't waste your time. "

Chinese Proverb

花有重开日，人无再少年h



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Honolulu Shower Trees

A L O H A !

 

Honolulu enters Spring and I'm getting excited
about our Shower Trees. They blossom
[generally] in the Merry Month of MAY.
All of these photos show 
RAINBOW Variety 
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“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.” 


Kobayashi Issa,
 Poems

Showers of Flowers!

“Can words describe

 the fragrance

 of the very breath 

of Spring?” 

 Neltje Blanchan

“Merrily, merrily shall I live now,

Under the blossom 

that hangs on the bough.”

 William Shakespeare 

"I enjoy the Spring

 more than 

the Autumn now. 

One does, I think, 

as one gets older.” 


 Virginia Woolf,

 Jacob's Room

  The Sky Loves Pink Blossoms. . .
 . . . and Answers  

" Excuse me 

while I kiss the sky."

Jimi Hendrix 

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I have Seen My Future

  A   L   O   H   A  !  

" The best alarm clock
 is sunshine on chrome. "
 Biker Wisdom

"Gray Line" Indeed! 

Look at the aura on the standing woman-

" I drive way too fast

 to worry 

about cholesterol. "

                                 Anonymous 

" Two-lane blacktop 

isn't a highway - 

it's an attitude.  "

Biker Saying

Thanks, You two. Ride safe!

" Only a biker knows 

why a dog 

sticks his head 

out of a car window.  "

Biker Wisdom

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Rural Puna, Hawaii's Big Island

Flowers of Hawaii

A   L   O   H   A  !
Click photo, Enlarge Wonders

" If your heart is a volcano,

 how shall you expect

 flowers to bloom? "

Khalil Gibran

" Why should I be unhappy?

 Every parcel of my being 

is in full bloom. "

Rumi

" How does the Meadow flower 

its bloom unfold? 

Because the lovely little flower 

is free down to its root, 

and in that freedom bold. "

William Wordsworth

" What, I sometimes wonder, 

would it be like if I lived in a country 

where winter is a matter of a few chilly days 

and a few weeks' rain; 

where the sun is never far away, 

and the flowers bloom all year long? "

Anna Neagle

It's WONDERFUL, Anna!

" For me its balmy airs are always blowing, 

its summer seas flashing in the sun; 

the pulsing of its surf-beat in my ear. . . 

in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers 

that perished twenty years ago. "

Mark Twain [on Hawaii]

 Paradise of the Pacific, April 1910

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SkyWatch Honolulu

A   L   O   H   A  !

" Be thou

 the rainbow

in the storms of life.

The evening beam

that smiles. . ."

Lord Byron

The Palm Clan

enjoys a

 Special Relationship

with the Sky

Bursting

with associations;

Changing

every second

  " A proverb

 is a short sentence

 based on 

long experience. "

Cervantes

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Whisker Patrol

A   L   O   H   A  !
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" On every journey you take, 

you face choices. 

At every fork in the road, 

you make a choice. 

And it is those decisions 

that shape our lives. "

Mike DeWine

" If evil be said of thee,

 and if it be true,

 correct thyself; 

if it be a lie, 
laugh at it. "

Epictetus


P I X I E   Patrol !

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" The gimmick—Kevin the cat—literally leaps into the scene 

and into the band. (He plays a mic’d cat post.) 

They change their name to Catnap 

and become an indie hit 

with their song “Whisker Patrol.”

 The whole sketch as built around Kevin the cat

is sublimely ridiculous and funny.  "

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HOME - Landing at Honolulu Int'l Airport

A    L    O    H    A  !

 Real REAL nice song! Great PEDAL STEEL break

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Honolulu Big Town Little Wheels

A    L    O    H    A  !

Hawaii Was

" Right actions

 in the future 

are the best 

apologies

 for bad actions

 in the past. "

Tryon Edwards

Hawaii Is

Get a bicycle. 

You will certainly not regret it, 

if you live.

Mark Twain

Little Girls

" She who succeeds 

in gaining the mastery 

of the bicycle 

will gain the mastery

 of life. . . 

And so I found 

high moral uses 

in the bicycle

 and can commend it 

as a teacher 

without pulpit or creed. "

 Frances E. Willard,

How I Learned To Ride The Bicycle, 1895

Mother's Heart

“ And I realized 

when you look

 at your mother, 

you are looking at 

the purest love 

you will ever know. ” 

 Mitch Albom

 For One More Day

Parts of Honolulu are AnyTown

" The road to success 

is always 

under construction. "

Lily Tomlin

And Yet -

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