Fleeting Impressions

A  L  O  H  A !

 Honolulu June 28 7:06pm HST

The way we experience 

the world around us

is a direct reflection of 

the world within us. 

     Gabrielle Bernstein

Honorable consolation results in a cure. 

And whatever has uplifted the soul, 

helps the body also. 

                             Seneca

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be 

a painter because you can invent things. 

But in photography everything is so ordinary; 

it takes a lot of looking before you learn 

to see the extraordinary. 

                     David Bailey

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Be the one

who is not

lost in thought,

aware of the moment,

fully alive and present.

It's a rarefied atmosphere

like climbing tall mountains.

Because it's there.

Right here.

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You + Me = Party!

Waikiki Closeups

A  L  O  H  A !

 With flowers the sex is 

up-front and x-rated. 

 Harold Davis, 

Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis

Turtle Tiles on the Pool Bottom

 I am a product of long corridors, 

empty sunlit rooms, 

upstairs indoor silences, 

attics explored in solitude, 

distant noises of gurgling cisterns 

and pipes, and the noise of 

wind under the tiles. Also, 

of endless books.

              C. S. Lewis

One of the most attractive things 
about the flowers is 
their beautiful reserve.
Henry David Thoreau

A morning glory at my window 

satisfies me more than 

the metaphysics of books.     

Walt Whitman

Plate Lunch Bliss: Korean BBQ Chicken, Rice, Kim Chee,

cold bean sprouts with sesame oil, and pickled cucumber salad. 

$7USD  if you walk out of Waikiki into the local neighborhoods.

  Link

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Thanks For Swinging By, Dear!

                                       cloudia

Enlarge

A  L  O  H  A !

In an ugly world 

the only true protest 

is beauty. 

            Phil Ochs

Click Photo To Enlarge (Gummi!)

A candle is a small thing. 

But one candle can light another.

And see how its own light increases, 

as a candle gives its flame to the other.

You 

are such a light.

             Moshe Davis

Palm Tree Trimmers

The years teach much 

which the days never knew.” 

                    Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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Keep Your Sails,

Your Candles,

& Your Trees

Trimmed!

                            Fondly, cloudia

Present

A L O H A !

Sometimes merely stopping 

and regaining your equilibrium 

is the most important job 

right now,

To simply be present 

and authentic 

with those present.

Brazilian Cardinal click photo to see his mate

Kindred spirits are not as scarce 
as I used to think.

                      Ann Shirley


Linking To
Saturday Critters

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Thank You for being one!

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Sub-Tropical Pacific Weather

A L O H A !

Art & Auto Repair:

Honolulu's Kaka'ako Neighborhood.

Always sights to amaze or appall.

I just drink it all in!

Who remembers the sweet little Theater? Now a dive shop with a tall new neighbor abuilding.

We had thunderstorms with lightning, and flooded streets last night. Today, as above, the hungover clouds cling to the mountains. Tropical weather. All magnificent! Even our humidity is imported from Tahiti 🌴

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Glad you walked along today!

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Shine

A  L  O  H  A !

I am my own twin.

…we're twins, and so we love each other 

more than other people…

               Louisa May Alcott

  

Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur. 

           Michael Bassey Johnson

When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.

 AD. Williams

Wake up,

dance with the light of the morning sun.

Enjoy the warmth of her love,

feel the joy of life,

feel the joy of deepest gratitude.

                Debasish Mridha

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Summer Fun

Winter Wonders

North & South

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Real Flowers of Honolulu

A  L  O  H  A !

“The earth laughs in flowers.” 

          Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “Let us dance in the sun, wearing 

wild flowers in our hair...” 

             Susan Polis Schutz

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him 
the stars.”

                                Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

The real blossoms of Hawaii 

are her People!

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Love Yourself!

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Linking To

Wild Bird Wednesday