I was driving up the hill to work, when I noticed the sunrise, over the lower slopes of Hualalai, was illuminating the ridge exactly. It was also creating an angled wedge of shadow on the opposite side of the volcano.
Posted for Becky’s Squares: Geometric. See more responses here.
Mauna Loa erupts in November 2022, seen on my drive to work.
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 176. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
A giant illuminated duck!Hapuna Beach.Flooding on the drive home.Cinnabar Polypores fungi.A Hawk Moth caterpillar.Clianthus puniceus in my old garden in Washington State.
Sunday Stills challenge theme this week and last week is ‘Your 2024 Year-in-Review.’ See more responses here. As before, I’m going with a favorite photo from each month of 2024, with a caption and link to the post the photo first appeared in. Last week, I posted favorites from January through June (here). This week, it’s July through December.
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 175. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Tenacious plants grow in a lava flow.A Cigar Wrasse in a school of Whitebar Surgeonfishes.A view of Kohala Mountain from the trail up Pu’u WaaWaa.A bee on a Wiliwili flower.A Four-humped Stink Bug.The sign for the Banana Leaf Cafe in Hawi. It never opened!
The top photo shows a view of Hualalai under cloudy skies, taken from the water yesterday morning.
The second photo shows pretty much the same view, taken on Christmas Day morning. What do you mean, where did it go? It was actually a less cloudy day. The big difference was that the wind was blowing from the southeast, driving vog from the latest eruption of Kilauea in this direction. Vog is volcanic smog and when it’s this thick, it can be quite acrid and you can taste it! It makes life miserable, especially for those with any kind of respiratory ailments.
The vog was bad for two days before the trade winds returned and blew the vog away from this part of the island, allowing the view in the top photo.
January: A Feather-legged Fly (Trichopoda pennipes) on a Tree Heliotrope (link).
Sunday Stills challenge theme this week and next week is ‘Your 2024 Year-in-Review.’ See more responses here. As usual, I’m going with a favorite photo from each month of 2024, with a caption and link to the post the photo first appeared in. This week’s post is for January through June. See the rest of the year next week.
February: A Ring-billed Gull struts at ʻAnaehoʻomalu Bay (link).March: A woman walks the beach at Kohanaiki Beach Park (link).
A Black-crowned Night Heron in a spot of bother in a pond at Kawaihae.
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 174. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
A lively Lesser Brown Scorpion.A Passion-vine Butterfly getting to grips with a tasselflower.A White-tailed Tropicbird.Beer taps.Just so you don’t get lost at Kaulana Manu Nature Trail.The breakwater at Kawaihae appears to lead the way to Maui.