Drunk on Spring

A   L   O   H   A !

 Rivulets and River Dances, Veins of Wood

Skies of Blue

" Fiction is obliged 
to stick to possibilities. 
Truth isn't. "


Mark Twain 

 Private Pinks & Purple

 Blooming Too

" Lovely days
 don't come
 to you,

you should 
walk to them... "

Rumi

Winged Exultations Above

" You can tell more

about a person

by what they say

about others,

than by what others

say about 

them. "

Leo Aikman

" I didn't want
 to tell the tree 
or weed 
what it was.
I wanted it to tell me 
something 
and through me 
express its meaning in 
nature. "

Wynn Bullock


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for Visiting!
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Honolulu Skywatch

A   L   O   H   A !

Sunset Beyond Oahu's Western Mountains

" The sky

 is the daily bread 

of the eyes. "

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

See Other Skywatchers around the globe

Here

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Jacaranda

A   L   O   H   A !

How to Capture the Glory, the FEELING 

of Jacaranda in Bloom?

“We all have a tree 

inside us. 

Finding it is just 

a matter of time.” 

 Sahar Delijani, 

Children of the Jacaranda Tree

Torches of 

Bright Lilac 

in a Green Tree

surrounded 

by aprons of Color!

Bouquets of Flowers

" Do not follow 

the ideas of others, 

but learn to listen

 to the voice within 

yourself. 

Your body and mind

 will become clear 

and you will 

realize the unity 

of all things. "

Dogen

 Each 

a Complete Masterpiece!

" You can't be suspicious

 of a tree, 

or accuse a bird

or a squirrel 

of subversion or 

challenge the ideology

 of a violet. "

 Hal Borland

Gold & Green of 

Morning Sun and 

Wild Blue Wonder!

No Wonder I Wander -

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"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

Henry Miller and Cloudia

A   L   O   H   A !

“ All growth
 is a leap in the dark, 

a spontaneous 

unpremeditated act 

without the benefit 

of experience. ” 

 Henry Miller

“ To be joyous
 is to be a madman
 in a world of 
sad ghosts. ” 

 Henry Miller

" As you grow past

 your ego,
 you will become 
invisible
 to those who live 

only 
in the realm of ego. "

Cloudia W. Charters

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Law of Mother Earth's Rights

A   L   O   H   A !

 Pint Sized Rainbow

" Singing in the rain
just singing in the rain,
what a glorious feeling,
I'm happy again. "

Arthur Freed

 Double Palm Twin Perspective

“ If there is to be any peace

 it will come through

 being, not having. ” 

Henry Miller

 Lit Up Torch [Ginger]

" People are 
naturally nearly alike; 
but by practice, 
we get to be 
wide apart. "


Confucius, 
The Confucian Analects

Red Crested Cardinal

"- to listen to stars and birds, 

babes and sages, 

with open heart;

" -in a word, 
to let the spiritual, 
unbidden and unconscious,
 grow up through
 the common-
-this is my symphony.  "

William Henry Channing, 
1810 - 1884 

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Bolivia's

 Law of the Rights of Mother Earth

is based on the understanding 

that the Well Being of this Planet

is primary to all of us, to every creature,

to the Future.

Earth, her ecosystems 

and human communities

are recognized as titleholders

of inherent rights 

which the law spells out.

In the USA,

corporations enjoy

Human Rights

including privacy.

Well funded confusers

deny human impacts

on the Earth and our

Climate.

China, Russia, USA

are essentially owned

and operated

by economic elites;

a mere handful of 

people.

It is the emerging nations:

India, Africa, South America,

who might lead us forward

through the basic wisdom

they have not yet had 

confused out of them.

God, Bless the common people,

the animals, the beings of Nature.

We all need to pay attention

when Big Money lies to us.

Thus endeth the sermon;

my sermon of Earth Day.

I was at the first Earth Day celebration  
April 22, 1970,
 at Fairmount Park's Belmont Plateau 

in Philadelphia.

The US Environmental Protection Agency

 was proposed by President Richard Nixon (R)

and began operation on December 2, 1970,

 after he signed an executive order.

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my fellow passenger
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Growing in Hawaii

A   L   O   H   A !

Waikiki Palm Grove

" (Being in) Good humor

 isn't a trait of character, 

it is an art 

which requires practice. "

David Seabury

Hibiscus

" The most important thing 

is to be whatever 

you are without shame. "

Rod Steiger

Thursday 9am

" The best part 

of beauty

 is that which

 no picture 

can express. "

Francis Bacon 

Bird of Paradise

" It is a narrow mind 

which cannot look

 at a subject

 from various

 points of view.” 

 George Eliot

Crane / Manoa Valley

" As long as 

we respond predictably. . . 

it is easy for others 

to exploit our preferences 

for their own ends. "

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990

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Usual View: Bird of Paradise

Mural Cars of Honolulu

A   L   O   H   A !

Happy Dolphins on a VW Bug

“ One's destination 

is never a place, 

but a new way 

of seeing things. ” 

 Henry Miller

Mystical Ecstasy  on a Dodge

" It seems to me

 every one of us

 is doing something 

meaningful

 for this world. "

Yani Tseng

Mondrian of Rothko?

See Murals Around the World

HERE

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