Able Hope

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Find the good

and celebrate it. Betty Shabazz

Waves at Waikiki Beach through waving branches.

Celebrate each season,

for you too, are

transformed with the

turns of the earth.

   Arthur Dobrin

Alpinia purpurata, red ginger,

also called ostrich plume

and pink cone ginger,

are native Malaysian plants

with showy flowers on

long brightly colored red bracts.

They look like the bloom,

but the true flower is the

small white flower on top.

 Wikipedia

Hope is being able to

see that there is

light despite all

of the darkness.

  Desmond Tutu

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

 Links

Travel Tuesday 

Happy Tuesday 

Pictorial Tuesday 

Tuesday Treasures

My Corner Of The World

Wild Bird Wednesday

Rain’s Thursday art date

Signs2

Nature Thursday

Short Ride Through Another World

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Upon a winding river,

slow down and

the river

becomes straight.

     Nelson Mandela

A bus ride is like

being in another world.

   J.A. Redmerski

I came Here before

the sun came up

I mean here,

waiting for the bus

Don't wanna be late,

as you can plainly see

Bus driver, bus driver

take pity on me 

Tom Robson

What senses do we lack

that we cannot see or hear

another world all around us?

  Frank Herbert

Giant Valise On Wheels Delivering Rimowa    Link

Take note of the

wonky back wheel -

 

I snapped this shot as the

giant suitcase drove by.

The dialogue of horizontals

is a nice accident.

But what to do with the

prominent pole 

in the foreground?!

Well, the van shot above this was made

from this one by Magic Eraser

on my Google Pixel 6 Pro phone.

I am also enjoying the lens options

and wonderfully clear shots on

my best camera EVER.

Oh yes. It surfs the web

and even functions

as a Telephone!

I’m as lucky as can be.

The world’s greatest uncle

belongs to me!

Pixie REALLY likes

this tiger portrait!

(Snapped at my dentist office)

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

Linking To Eileen's Saturday Critters!

Morning Light Honolulu

A L O H A From Honolulu!

It is early, early morning.

It's that time when it's

still dark but you know

the day is coming.

Blue is bleeding

through black.

Stars are dying.

Markus Zusak

So I find words I never 

thought to speak

In streets I never thought 

I should revisit

When I left my body 

on a distant shore.

T.S. Eliot

During 4 California years,

these are the streets, Trees,

Light, Smells, Sights, and people 

I dreamt of. . . .

Back Door

1916

Hawaii's Queen, Liliuokalani 

was alive

when this was laid.

I walked over it today.

This illustrates the times frame of

our culture and history in the islands.

Driving my taxi here in Honolulu

in the mid 1980s,

I drove a dignified older gentleman

who told me how the Queen

worked in her garden, smoking

small cigars, and graciously

greeting the school children

as they passed, 

Such he had been:

A schoolboy 

who knew a Queen.

The Hawaiian Kingdom

is not merely historic.

For a dark street,

sunshine is most welcome;

for a wounded soul,

love is most welcome!

Mehmet Murat ildan

She is yellow, I'm all blue...

It's ok! What can I do!?

 Liviu C. Tudose

I would never date a lizard OR gecko
 or whatever that thing is.
Keep moving up the wall, buddy,
I'm too yellow for YOU!

Ô, Sunlight! 

The most precious gold 

to be found on Earth.

Roman Payne

𐋌𐋍𐋌𐋍𐋌𐋍𐋌𐋍𐋌𐋍𐋐

Love You - Good Luck,

Pixie & Cloudia

Click on photo to see the darker side.

Linking to

Saturday Critters

Rainbow

 A   L   O   H   A  !

Clever Am I!

If you have a minute

I'll run through

some color tricks

for you!

It's not that easy bein' green

Having to spend each day

The color of the leaves

When I think it could be nicer

Bein' red or yellow or gold

Or something much 

more colorful like that

It's not easy bein' green

It seems you blend in

With so many other 

ordinary things

And people tend to 

pass you over

Cause you're not 

standing out

Like flashy sparkles 

in the water

Or stars in the sky

But green's the 

color of spring

And green can be cool 

and friendly like

And green can be big 

like a mountain

Or important like a river 

or tall like a tree

When green is all 

there is to be

It could make you 

wonder why

But, why wonder? 

(why wonder?)

I'm green and 

it'll do fine

It's beautiful. And 

I think it's what 

I want to be.

Lyrics By Jim Henson

& The Muppets

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                     Pixie & Cloudia

Linking To

Eileen's Saturday Critters

I'd Rather Be Birdin`

Far More Happiness

 A   L   O   H   A  !

In a  forest of a 

hundred thousand trees, 

no two leaves are alike. And 

no two journeys along the 

same path are alike.     

Paulo Coelho

Don't push your weaknesses, 

play with your strengths.     

Jennifer Lopez

. . . there is meaning in the 

acceptance of our dusky 

and dappled side. . . 

     Anne Lamott

Some day you will find out 

that there is far more 

happiness in another's 

happiness than 

in your own.     

    Honoré de Balzac

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Love You,

               Cloudia & Pixie

Prepare For Joy

 A   L   O   H   A  !

People should take time 

to be happy.

         Grandma Moses

The person who gets stuck 

on petty happiness, will 

not attain great happiness.

           Tibetan 

Every tear has 

a smile behind it.

       Iranian Proverb

He who laughs last, 

laughs best.

              Aesop

Sorrow prepares you for joy. 

It violently sweeps everything 

out of your house, so that 

new joy can find space to enter. 

It shakes the yellow leaves from 

the bough of your heart, so 

that fresh, green leaves 

can grow in their place. 

It pulls up the rotten roots, 

so that new roots hidden 

beneath have room to grow.

Rumi

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Love You,

                    cloudia & pixie