As the sun sets on the year 2019, here’s a photo of palm trees silhouetted by a post-sunset sky.
Sunset with palms
Category Archives: Trees
Kohala Welcome Center under a full moon
On a recent foray into Hawi to get photos for last week’s Sunday Stills challenge (here), I took these photos of the Kohala Welcome Center. This is the place to get information about North Kohala for visitors en route to Kapaau and Pololu, which marks the end of the highway.
On this particular evening, the welcome center was illuminated by its Christmas display and a full moon, which also highlighted the palm trees that tower over that location.
Hawi Christmas lights
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Holiday Decor.’ See more offerings here.
This theme forced me outside after dark, something of a rarity these days. As usual, when I walked into Hawi, I thought, ‘I should do this more often.’
Here are a couple of the downtown buildings illuminated for the season. In truth, this was pretty much it for holiday trappings, but it’s still a good deal more than at my house!
Also posted, belatedly, in response to the last Friendly Friday challenge theme of 2019, ‘Christmas Preparations.’ See more responses here.
Saffron finch in a monkeypod tree
Monkeypod trees are renowned for their spread, creating large shady areas below. They also provide habitat for many birds including this saffron finch, enjoying a rest in the relative cool of the lower branches.
Abstracts: Moss
Patches of moss coat the base of a tree at Kalōpā Forest Reserve.
Dark macadamia nut orchard
Just in time for Halloween is this photo of a neglected macadamia nut orchard. The trees have become so overgrown that no sunlight penetrates the dark interior except around sunset and sunrise, when it slants in, low to the ground.
Happily, work is underway to resurrect this orchard. While I was taking photos, workers gathering fallen nuts moved through the deep shadows, their low voices adding to the spooky nature of the scene.
Cannonball tree flower and bee
A bee forages in one of the splendid flowers of a cannonball tree (Couroupita guianensis).
Papaya
Papayas are a curious plant. The leaves cluster at the top of a single slender trunk. The fruit grows directly from that trunk. The scars on the trunk mark where earlier fruits and leaves appeared. The plants grow quickly and fall over readily. And, of course, they produce generous quantities of papayas.
Having said that, what I liked about this particular papaya tree was the light illuminating it.
