Sunday Stills challenge theme this week and last week is ‘Your 2023 Year-in-Review.’ See more responses here. As before, I’m going with a favorite photo from each month of 2023, with a caption and link to the post the photo first appeared in. Last week, I posted favorites from January through June. This week, it’s July through December.
It’s not a Norwegian Blue Parrot, but I thought this hen’s feathers were quite lovely. This also marks eight years of daily posts on this blog! This could explain the hen’s expression!
This juvenile Yellow-billed Cardinal took full advantage this popular pool of water being temporarily unoccupied to have a thorough bath.
A Hawaii Amakihi rests in a tree fern alongside the Pu’u O’o Trail off Saddle Road.
These turkeys trotted through the yard a while back. Hopefully, they’re still around and not in an oven somewhere. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
I saw this House Sparrow one morning, standing over this fruit of a False Kamani tree (Terminalia catappa) at Spencer Beach Park. It didn’t seem interested in the fruit, not making any attempt to peck at it.
After a while, it raised its head, opened its beak and … silence. It did this several times and never made a sound. I assume it’s a juvenile trying to get its parents attention without otherwise drawing attention to itself. I never did see the parents, or if they came to the youngsters assistance.
This photo doesn’t look much different in black and white than it does in color. Happy Halloween!
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Frightful.’ See more responses here.
There’s a well-known brand of paper tissue that sells it’s products in cardboard boxes sporting a wide variety of designs, some more pleasing than others. Costco carries these items and currently sells a line that could be called colorful or garish, depending on ones tastes.
The top photo shows the end of one of these boxes. It features owls, which I love, but there’s something truly frightful in this image. I don’t know whether it’s the blood-tinged background colors or the bizarre purple owls from another dimension, and their dull black, vacant, staring eyes. I do know this isn’t what I want to see when I walk in the bathroom. So I’ve stopped buying from Costco until they get a less scary set of designs in.
The second photo is frightful in a fun, Halloweeny kind of way. I was picking up bread from the Sandwich Isle Bread Company in Waimea, when I saw these ”Mummy” Vanilla Choco Eclairs. Well, I couldn’t possibly pass them up, could I? They have several other Halloween-themed treats and they not only look fabulous, but always taste great.
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