This week’s Sunday Stills monthly color challenge is ‘Diamond, Quartz, Crystal and/or Purple.’ See more responses here. I’m going with purple because I have nothing for the others! I was going to do another flower array, but then I had a wander around beautiful downtown Hawi and came up with these photos.
A water dispenser in Hawi.A screen at the Hub in Hawi.The door of a store in Hawi.Part of a sign in front of a building. Can you figure out what the full sign says?A sign at the front of an old theater in Hawi.
A good deal of rain was falling onto several pigs running through the yard recently. This one found a little sunshine in the shape of a fallen tangerine, which it carried to the shelter of the cane grass to devour.
An A’ama crab skitters through a field of Helmet Urchins.
A Yucca plant in full flower.
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 134. Captions are on the photos.
A mural painted on the side of Hawi Post Office.A Ruddy Turnstone watching.A Pallid Ghost Crab getting ready to disappear into its burrow.The bench overlooking Honokane Nui Valley.
A view of Pu’u O’o vent, when it was erupting, from the Napau Trail in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
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 132.
A flying clown. That’s all the world needs!A grasshopper keeping watch.Two Banana Stalk Flies doing, well, you know what.A well balanced rock on the North Kohala coast.Couldn’t resist taking this one at my local post office. I can run this several times!
… They go together in this week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme of ‘Rainy Days.’ See more responses here.
Kahili Gingers illuminate a wet day in Kalōpā Forest Reserve.
There’s plenty of rain on the Big Island. Most falls on the wet east side, but the dry west side can get its share too. Hilo, on the wet side, averages around 140 inches of rain a year, and just to the west of Hilo is an area that gets more than 200 inches a year. In contrast, Kawaihae, on the Kohala coast, gets around 10 inches of rain annually, though I suspect last year was one of its wetter ones.
The highway to the Mauna Kea visitor center awash with rain.
Where I live, on the northern end of the island, we get around 50 inches of rain a year, but being on the shoulder of Kohala Mountain, that figure can change quickly going a mile east or west, or a mile up the hill or down toward the ocean.
Looking out the window as a passing shower dumps a load of rain.
First time I’ve noticed this in downtown Hawi. That means it’s either new, or my powers of observation are continuing their steady decline! The fish doesn’t seem to be associated with any kind of business. It’s just there for decoration. Maybe that’s why it looks so angry.
Posted for Bushboy’s Last on the Card photo challenge. See more responses here.
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Fun with Photo Editing.’ See more responses here.
I don’t tend to monkey around with photos much, outside the usual cropping, and adjusting color and the like. Still, I had several ideas for this challenge, none of which I liked when push came to shove.
Instead, I settled for these photos, a day and night view of the excellent KO Pizza food truck. The truck operates two days a week in Hawi, but they’re in the process of opening a permanent location in town. Menu planning is about to get much easier!
I saw this sign at a local church school. I understand what they’re getting at, but I confess I found this a bit creepy. I mean, I can’t think of anyone I’ve ever wanted to send a Valentine’s card to that I’ve also wanted to use a nail gun on.