Hawaii Photo of the Day

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Shower Tree - Rainbow Variety
Official Tree of Honolulu

Hawaii Photo of the Day

  A  L  O  H  A !  

Shower Tree

Cloudia's World

A  L  O  H  A   from   My   World!

Click on the Banyan

" The clearest way 

into the Universe 

is through a

 forest wilderness. "

                                 John Muir

Click on Clouds!

" Lightning is the 

shorthand of a storm, 

and tells of chaos. "

                                 Eric Mackay

Honolulu 0ld & New

" Each of us 
is the architect of
our own fortune. "
                  English Proverb

Linking to

0ur World Tuesday

My World

is a happy place,

today a region

full of grace.

Funny how

we hide our sweets,

perhaps afraid

we don't deserve

such treats?

But trudge-ery

feels fit.

Joy? Success?

We feel guilty

uncertain

of it!

" Don't boast!

Don't crow!

That's not the 

side to show. "

Well I'm gonna

dare it,

gonna up

and share it!

I feel great

and grateful

today!

I hope you do too,

or will real soon,

that's what I say

by the light

of my full moon.

                              Fondly, cloudia

Blogging Flaneur

A  L  O  H  A !

" An early-morning walk 

is a blessing for 

the whole day. " 

                     Thoreau

" Why are there trees 

I never walk under 

but 

large and melodious

 thoughts descend 

upon me? "

            Walt Whitman, 

                                 Song of the Open Road    

" … if you walk the 

footsteps of a stranger,

 you'll learn things 

you never knew 

you never knew "

                          Walt Disney

" The spectator is a prince 

who everywhere rejoices 

in his incognito. 

The lover of life 

makes the whole world 

his family. . .

- we might liken him 

to a mirror 

as vast as 

the crowd itself; 

or to a 

kaleidoscope gifted 

with consciousness...

reproducing the multiplicity 

of life and 

the flickering grace 

of all the elements of life. "

Charles Baudelaire,

1863

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Thank You

for Strolling

the boulevard

with us-

Fondly, cloudia

Shower Tree Magic Incantation

A   L   O   H   A !

The Moonlight Shower Tree

with a pink "Rainbow" variety peeking

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“ If you feel lost, 

disappointed,

 hesitant, or weak, 

return to yourself, 

to who you are, 

here and now -

" and when you 

get there, 

you will discover 

yourself, -

like a lotus flower 

in full bloom, 

even

in a muddy pond, 

beautiful 

and strong.” 

                     Masaru Emoto PhD 

Secret Life of Water

" I have always believed,

and I still believe, 

that whatever 

good or bad 

fortune may come 

. . .we can 

always give it 

meaning and 

transform it 

into something 

of value. "

                        Hermann Hesse 

(1877 - 1962)

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Thank YOU

for Visiting!

                 Warmly, Cloudia

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Honolulu Shower Trees

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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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My October Ocarina

A L O H A !   This is a short (2 mins) audio of myself 

playing a tiny ocarina! 

Hope you enjoy it as we swim

 through some Waikiki photos -

" There are no rules

 for good photographs, 

there are only good 

photographs. "

 Ansel Adams

Rainbow Shower Tree

" If you want to be a
 better photographer,
 stand in front of
more interesting 
stuff. "


Jim Richardson

"The soul would have no rainbow

 had the eyes no tears."

 John Vance Cheney

" I honestly think that a

 huge part of being

 a good photographer

 is simply showing up 

with your camera. "

 Kate Young

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                Warmly, cloudia

Shower Tree Show

A L O H A !
 

How can I show YOU

the amazing experience

of one of Honolulu's

 Rainbow Shower Trees?

“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  

" The sky

 is the daily bread 

of the eyes. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

" Excuse me 

while I kiss the sky."

Jimi Hendrix 

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                          Warmly, cloudia

Shower Tree

A l o h a !

 click on these bonnie pictures:

Honolulu adopted the rainbow shower tree

as our official tree in 1965.

This one is white, or cream. 

"If you would know strength

and patience, 

welcome the company of trees."

Hal Borland

April to November 

floral explosions 

fill our sky with GLORY!

"To heal mine aching moods,
Give me God's virgin woods."

Clinton Scollard

 

The Rainbow Variety

"Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees
Bending to counterfeit a breeze."

James R. Russell

The rainbow shower tree (Cassia x nealiae) 

is a hybrid cross between the golden shower (C. fistula) 

and the pink and white shower (C. javanica).

  Due to plant-genetics, no two trees are alike.

"I hear the wind among the trees
Playing the celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Honolulu's "official" rainbow shower is the Wilhelmina Tenney. The tree started life in 1920 as a seedling on Lunalilo Street in our Makiki neighborhood by neighbors of the Tenney family. After the tree was propagated, a Tenney daughter, Wilhelmina (1891-1951) gave material to Foster Garden.

 

 

 

 

“Like branches on a tree

we grow in different directions,

yet our roots remain as one.

Each of our lives will always

be a special part of the other.” 

Anonymous

 

 Such litter, glitters!

"As the poet said, 'only God can make a tree' -

probably because it's so hard to figure out

how to get the bark on."

Woody Allen

 

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The shower tree is a flower tree,

her boughs bearing

bounteous bouquets- 

it quite bedazzles!

 

Kindly leave a word blossom

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