Category Archives: Scenes

The Numbers Game #108

Sunset over North Kohala.

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 230. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A ground beetle negotiates rocky ground in Hawaii
A Ground Beetle on the move.
Two Common Waxbills in Hawaii
Common Waxbills.
A green anole surveys his territory from the edge of a roof.
A Green Anole keeping watch.
A day lily grows in the roots of a banyan tree in Hawaii
A Day Lily growing in a Banyan tree.
Birds bathing in a puddle in Hawaii
Bath time!
A decoy duck in the waters off Hawaii
A duck decoy finds freedom on the ocean.

Ten years ago

A Green Anole shedding.

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Ten.’ See more responses here. January of 2016 was the first full month for this blog, so I thought I’d post a few photos that ran back then.

A Gold Dust Day Gecko on a Pink Banana.
Flies on a horse.
A Flowery Flounder blends in over a rock.
A Gold Dust Day Gecko encounters a Black Witch Moth. Full sequence here.
A Black-crowned Night Heron stands watch while Green Sea Turtles rest on shore at Kiholo Bay,
Colorful tide pools south of Waikoloa Resort.

View from the top road

A view from Mamalahoa Highway on the Big Island, Hawaii, with Kohala Mountain and Maui in the background

Looking north from the old Mamalahoa Highway, in the distance is Kohala Mountain on the right and Maui on the left. The black lava curving down to the ocean is the Kaʻūpūlehu lava flow from Hualalai Volcano. This flow, which occurred in 1800/1801, was the last time Hualalai erupted, though the volcano is still considered active.

The Numbers Game #107

Banana plants thrive in heavy tropical rain.
Bananas in the rain.

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 229. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

Purple anthurium
Purple Anthuriums.
Fishing camp with an uncooperative whale in the background.
Euconocephalus nasutus conehead.
A Scrawled Filefish in the waters off Hawaii
Suspicious Scrawled FIlefish.
Bluefin trevallies catch the light
Bluefin Trevallies.
A gargantuan blenny in nuptial colors
A Garganutan Blenny in nuptial colors.

Touch and go

A U.S. military plane practicing touch-and-goes at Upolu, Hawaii

I don’t get down to Upolu as much as I used to, but recently I headed down that way and saw this large military aircraft looping around the airstrip. It was practicing touch and goes. I managed to get there in time to see it go around a couple of times before heading back to base in Oahu. I’m not sure what kind of plane this was, but clearly one of the large transport aircraft of the U.S. military.

A U.S. military plane practicing touch-and-goes at Upolu, Hawaii
A U.S. military plane practicing touch-and-goes at Upolu, Hawaii