Hill Folk Say

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. Rebecca H. Davis

Subdued Hues On a Cloudy Day

The breeze at dawn has

secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. Rumi

Young Street [Back] Side

The unique Occidental Life Insurance Building in Honolulu, designed by Lemmon, Freeth & Haines, circa 1951. It’s a beautifully constructed early 1950s low-rise office building made from natural stone, concrete, aluminum and angled glass. Not surprisingly, though, the real attraction is the 1967 addition of a cantilevered airport control-like tower – used as a boardroom – that really sets this building apart from its contemporaries.

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" I heard That Delicious Chickens Have Been

Seen Around This Blog! "

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live a good, honorable life.

Then when you get older

and think back, you’ll

enjoy it a second time.

Live simply. Love generously.

Care deeply. Speak kindly

Wisdom of the Hill Folk

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Saturday Critters

I’d  Rather Be Birding

Jaipur Garden Affair

Monday Murals 

Hawaiian Snakes?

A L O H A From Honolulu!

It is often said that

before you die your

life passes before

your eyes. It is

in fact true.

It's called living. Terry Pratchett

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Do these birds know that they

are perched on a huge snake?

Mabel Smyth Memorial Building,

C.W. Dickey architect, 1941

Art Deco Style

National Register of Historic Places

Mabel Leilani Smyth, was born

in Kona and attended Springfield

Hospital Training School for

nurses in Manchester,

Massachusetts. The first

Hawaiian to be trained

professionally as a nurse,

she graduated in 1915,

returning to Hawaii to work 

She was Superintendent of

Territory of Hawaii

Public Nursing,

dying unexpectedly in 1937.

A fund public drive raised money

to create this building / memorial.

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More Healing Snakes:

A stylized Caduceus on a physician office building

also in Honolulu's Capitol District

"The caduceus, a staff with two snakes coiled around it, is the official insignia of the United States Medical Corps, Navy Pharmacy Division, and the Public Health Service. The caduceus is also the magic wand carried by Hermes (the Romans knew him as Mercury),

the messenger of the gods."

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Another Snake?!

The world only exists

in your eyes.

You can make it

as big or as small

as you want..

 F. Scott Fitzgerald

Safe?

Rejoice in small things

and they will

continue to grow

Slaven Vujic

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Linking To

Eileen's Saturday Critters

Hawaii has only one indigenous snake,

a small Island Blind Snake resembling an earth worm.

Sea Snakes RARELY enter Hawaiian waters.

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Just Clouds Passing

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Neal S. Blaisdell Center

"Memories are made here!" 

A gray day provides

the best light.

Leonardo da Vinci

Most consequential choices

involve shades of gray,

and some fog is

often useful in

getting things done.

Timothy Geithner

Gray skies are just 

clouds passing over.

Duke Ellington

Some people

go to priests;

others to poetry;

I to my friends.

Virginia Woolf

Walter Murray Gibson Building

842 Bethel Street, Honolulu

Opened: 1930

Architect: Louis E. Davis

Style: Spanish Revival

"During the reign of King Kalakaua,

the Minister of the Interior purchased

the property at Bethel Street

and Merchant Street in 1885.

Construction of a new

police station began in 1886.

In 1930, Louis E. Davis was commissioned

for the design of a new building in

the same spot by the same name.

The architecture is similar to the popular

Territorial/Spanish Revival style

seen in Honolulu Hale, [City Hall]

the Academy of Arts,

the C. Brewer & Co. Building,

and more. Like other buildings

of this style, the walls are concrete

covered with a rough stucco finish.

The Walter Murray Gibson Building also

features sandstone from Waianae Oahu,

eleven tons of Roja Alicante marble

from France, and doors made

of mahogany from the Philippines.

When it was used as a police station,

police occupied the basement." 

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Not only is there a

right to be happy,

there is a duty

to be happy.

So much sadness

exists in the world

that we are all

under obligation to contribute as much joy as

lies within our powers.

John S. Bonnell

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

Linking To

Wild Bird Wednesday

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Your Own Unique

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Step onto a clean slate

each morning and you

will be miles ahead

of the rest.

Michelle C. Ustaszeski

Cultivating gratitude

every morning

when you wake up

refreshed can help

your day start off

on a good note.

Rocco Cozza

There is a still higher

type of courage -

the courage to brave pain,

to live with it, to never

let others know of it

and to still find

joy in life; to wake up

in the morning with

an enthusiasm for

the day ahead.

   Howard Cosell

We Admire You!

Good luck

and bad luck

are strands of

the same rope.

  Sakura Tsukuba

Ride the energy of

your own unique spirit.

Gabrielle Roth 

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On Saturday, I went to a local

Shinto Shrine for my 

New Year Blessing.

Hawaii people celebrate one another's

cultures. While in California for

four years, I missed many such things.

Good to be home.

               Happy New Year!      Link

Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Nature Notes

From The Archives

The Good.Random.Fun.

AWWW Monday

T Tuesday

Our World Tuesday 

Travel Tuesday 

Happy Tuesday 

Pictorial Tuesday 

My Corner Of The World

So Enjoy A

Beverage!

Residences Honolulu

 A   L   O   H   A  !

The shiny tower is Century Center Link

When you set a good 

example to the world, 

you become a flag 

waving on the skies 

of the entire world!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Kapiolani Residence shining in morning sun Link

Light, God's eldest daughter, 

is a principal beauty 

in a building.

Thomas Fuller

Waikiki Landmark Link 

I like  the two joined towers of this building.

They resemble a Torii Gate right 

at the entry to Waikiki. 

It was built to appeal to 

the high end Japanese 

visitor/resident just as the

Japanese financial bubble burst.

Sweet Little Rainbow Court Link

Gratitude is happiness  

doubled by wonder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Homeless Camp Under Blue Tarp. I like how a

toggle through the balustrade fastens the roof.

You have to be 

comfortable 

in the 

uncomfortableness.

        A. J. McLean

Waikiki Chateau with reflected Hawaii Flag Link

“The American flag doesn't give her glory

 on a peaceful, calm day. 

It's when the winds pick up and become 

boisterous, do we see her strength. 

When she unfolds her 

hand, and shows her frayed fingers, 

where we see the 

stretch of red-blood lines of man 

that fought for this land. 

The purity of white stripes 

that strips our sins, and the 

stars of Abraham's covenant, 

broad in a midnight blue sky.

The rights our forefathers established. 

As it waves high in 

the currents of freedom, 

where the Torch of Liberty shines 

over the sea, does she give 

meaning to unity. When we 

strive as one nation, or 

when it drops half-mast, 

to a fallen soldier.”

 Anthony Liccione

Perfect kitty-size gap for a perfect size kitty!

If you're comfortable 

with who you are, 

it shows in your walk.

                                Dawn Olivieri

Cozy Queen Cove

Just be comfortable 

with who you are.     

Chris Pratt

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We Love You,
                                Cloudia & Pixie

Linking To

SkyWatch

Thankful Thursday 

Little Things Thursday

Weekend Reflections