Category Archives: Signs

Downtown Hawi

A family of four walks past a building in Hawi, Hawaii
The main highway through Hawi is Akoni Pule Hwy., though it looks more like Abbey Road in this photo!

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Your Home Town.’ See more responses here. Downtown Hawi is only about a block long, but it can be a busy little place, and popular with tourists on their way to and from Pololu Valley.

A mural on the side of the post office in Hawi, Hawaii
This mural, on the side of the Post Office building, was painted by local high school kids and depicts some of the history of North Kohala.

The Numbers Game #132

A view of the North Kohala coast from the air in Hawaii
A view of the North Kohala coast from the air.

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

It’s a sign

A neon Heineken sign in a restaurant in Kailua Kona, Hawaii

Back in the days when a friend and I used to brew beer, we’d buy bottled beer to drink, and save the empties for our home brews. Heineken beer was one of those, but we learned that Heineken bottles were made with fairly thin glass. We found this out when our home brew caused them to explode! The fact that we kept the bottles in our wardrobes meant that our work attire often smelled of beer, which is not recommended for career advancement.

The Numbers Game #125

Ferns curl overhead.

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

Amethysts

This week’s Sunday Stills color challenge is ‘Amethyst.’ See more responses here. Just a couple from me this week. The top photos is a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air auto looking very clean and shiny, though a closer look shows a few signs of age. I know the feeling!

In the second photo, we are amethyst even if the look of this sign in a window doesn’t exactly lure one in.

The brown and the gray

A praying mantis and it's shadow in Hawaii
A Praying Mantis casts a its shadow on a rail.

This month’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Any shade of brown and/or gray.’ See more responses here.

Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Shadows. See more responses here.