Category Archives: Abstracts

The Numbers Game #126

Cannonball Tree flowers.

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 743. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

Also posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here.

A Phalaenopsis Minho Princess orchid at the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden
A Phalaenopsis Minho Princess orchid.
A pink ginger flower grows up between the leaves of a joey palm at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden.
A Pink Ginger flower on Joey Palm fronds.
A fragrant passion flower in bloom
A Passion Flower.
A Hawaii Amakihi in Hawaii
An Hawaii Amakihi during its morning workout.
Tropical foliage illuminated by a shaft of sunlight
Sunlight on tropical foliage.
The lava tube north of Kailua Kona Airport.
This lava tube, next to the highway north of Kona Airport, was probably one of the most visited on the island, but access is prohibited now.

The Numbers Game #124

A cluster of whitebar surgeonfish pass above sandy ridges dappled by sunlight.
Whitebar Surgeonfishes swim over a sandy bottom.

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 246. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A close up of an auto wheel
A hubcap.
A nene looks suspicious in Hawaii
A very suspicious looking Nene.
A Hawaiian Monk seal pup on a beach in Hawaii
Monk Seal pup on the beach.
A Hawaiian Dascyllus off the coast of Hawaii
A Hawaiian Dascyllus.
Earantheumum laxiflorum flowers in Hawaii
Earantheumum laxiflorum flowers, also known as Shooting Stars.
A pair of humpback whales diving
A pair of Humpback Whales dive in tandem.

The Numbers Game #121

The firehose of lava, in 2017, from Pu'u O'o vent at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
The firehose of lava from Pu’u O’o vent during an eruption in 2017.

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 243. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

The top photo and the first gallery are photos that haven’t run on the blog before. I don’t know why I never ran the top one, though I had a lot of good photos to choose from that day.

Tropical foliage in Hawaii
Tropical foliage.
A Catatante Pacific Sunspots Orchid at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden
A Catatante ‘Pacific Sunspots’ orchid at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden.
Tree trunks at Kalopa State Park in Hawaii
Tree trunks at Kalopa State Park.
Nishimura Bay on the Big Island, Hawaii
Nishimura Bay on the Kohala Coast.
View of Mauna Kea from Pu'u Wa'awa'a bench
A view of Mauna Kea from Hualalai.
Usually waves are seen on the water, but here at Waialea, the waves are light and sand below the water.
Dappled light on sandy ridges off the Kohala Coast.

Munchkin drivers needed

Reflections in a shiny Airstream trailer in Kawaihae Hawaii

In Kawaihae, there’s a very shiny Airstream trailer which houses Seabird Coffee. When I stopped to take photos of it, what caught my eye was that one rounded corner of the trailer did wonderful things to vehicles waiting for shipment elsewhere, my car (on the left), and a passing truck!

Posted for Bushboy’s Last on the Card. See more responses here.