Here's Wishing for a Warmer Holiday Season.

It seems to be cold and icy wind conditions are making daily activities very uncomfortable and even difficult, from what I'm hearing friends and family are saying about the frigid winter weather across a large segment of the mainland from the west coast to the east.


Here's to wishing you warm thoughs from our Islands to give you some respite from the icy temperatures, at least through a virtual tropical experience with some beautiful tropical flora.

Enjoy our warm water and beaches..

My Christmas Decorations for This Year!

I'm keeping it pretty simple as far as christmas decorations this season since I'll be going back to the mainland to visit family and friends during the holidays.



While I was at the farmers market in Hilo, I justed picked up this nice simple christmas bouquet for only $4.00, it will make a nice centerpiece to a simple lunch I'm doing for some Ohana (close friends) this weekend.


Now, take a look at a video I was watching last night of what some people do thats over the top outdoor christmas decorating and music combined....enjoy

Wordless Wednesdays

Its The Annual Pahoa Holiday Parade....Whoppeeeee!

Well can you believe its time to celebrate Christmas in Pahoa, although Pahoa Punatics (da locals) consider it polictically correct to call it the Pahoa Holiday Celebration. This is to include all the different religions and nationalities in this community and boy was there a real hodge podge of participants, performers and  Punatics....what a show!


Here are some of the fun highlights...




Whats a parade without some clowns and a pony....giddy-up horsey....

OOOOh yummy its ginger bread sweets from the boys/girls club.

Have a Harry Krishna Christmas.....hummmmmmm.....

Aaaaaaw, its the little doggie christmas yappies!

Oh wow, even the mermaids are coming out to

celebrate a fun parade..

Ho`okupu – to sprout, grow, increase; To cause growth...

No one told me I have to hula hoop all the waaaay

to the end....uuuuugh!

Have a Shaka (cool) Christmas....Mommy go faster !!!

We're clapping for Santa...Everyone stand up, he's coming !!!

Howdy... Paniolo Girls wish you a big Aloooooha Christmas!

You caught me....yeah I wore this for Halloween also, but I still wanted to dress up for any parade!

There's always a funny moment on a parade in Pahoa town.

In Pahoa, Santa comes into town on an outrigger canoe festuned with lots of tropical flowers.

Aren't these kids having the time of their lives on this float?

These tropical flowers are the real thing on these floats,

real aloha!

Thank you Pahoa for your holiday parade, much aloha to everyone! Until next year.....

Aloha Friday, Lets Take a Nice Walk Today.

Happy Aloha Friday. It is such a nice sunny day today in East Hawaii, I think I'll take a nice easy hike today to see a local waterfall, won't you come join me?


We are going to Rainbow Falls which is just above Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii. It has been raining the past week so the waterfall should be putting on quite a show.


Well, its quite busy this morning, all the tourists are up early and taking their kodak moments. We'll have to take an off the beaten path trail to avoid everyone, but of course I need to first take a shot of the waterfall.


Here it is Rainbow Falls.....

A close up view from another vista point.

Right next to the observation platform is this amazing mango tree, it seems to be over forty feet tall and not a single mango on the tree left over.

How about we take our hike and get ahead of the tourist pack down below? Theres a short climb up to the observation area overlooking the waterfalls and the vally below. Don't worry theres no more climbing outside of these few stairs to the top!

A beautiful view of our accent to the top

Okay that wasn't too bad a hike up here and aren't the views amazing from up here?

The vistas are quite clear and you can see all the way down to the ocean.

Lets go down through this forested area so we can make it down to the waters edge.

Its a little spooky around here, all the trees tend to get very close around here.

Isn't this an amazing banyan tree, all the arial roots and going down to the ground and creating new stems that will support a larger tree.

Now its getting a little more muddy on this trail so hold onto anything you can so you don't slip.

Okay, we are finally here at the waters edge, there's no-one up here at all.

What a nice way to enjoy the day in complete solitude.

Well its been a nice hike, lets go back through the forest, aren't these the strangest looking banyan trees?

Aaaah, finally back down into the main parking area, I need to take a few more photos of the amazing wild gingers around the park and one more photo of the falls before we leave.

Thanks for taking the walk with me on such a sunny day, its nice to share this with a friend.

Wordless Wednesdays

Bits of my Weekend

It was a very low key weekend for a change,

usually I have too many things packed on my to do list

but this weekend i actually took it nice and easy....

Stayed in bed till past seven in the morning,

 which is late for me,
I finally finished a

book that took me waaay to long to finish, but

 i'm glad i finally finished it.

It was only 65 degrees this morning....brrrrrr.

I made some nice

warm oatmeal

with lots of nuts and raisins,

and honey,

 and lots of chocolate sprinkles.

I took a nice walk around the garden
this morning and

pulled out some more weeds

 then transplanted some pot bound plants.

I made alot of cuttings with

these coleus plants,

 they are getting almost

 five feet tall  (scary!!!)

Stopped to take a picture of my

variegated impatient

isn't it striking?

Went to Arthur's studio to do some figure drawing

 its been awhile

since i've come down to play with
my pencils again

and it shows... (frustration)

Made a nice big pot of Turkey soup, from all the turkey leftovers yesterday...

hmmm,  I can't wait til supper time...

Sunday afternoon, I play volleyball
at Kalapana with

a regular bunch of rowdies...

its very competitive

but fun...

Well that wasn't as low key a weekend as I thought...

typical for me!