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😒 Another discombobulated day, ending what has felt like a discombobulated week. I’ve got to learn to manage these sorts of situations better. I definitely wasn’t putting out the best version of myself at times this week. ⚘
There were a number of rainbows this morning. They all formed in pretty much the same area of sky and so instead of showing the whole gamut of rainbows that appeared, I am going with the first one that I saw as I stepped outside this morning….and I didn’t get many photos of the others anyway 😏 🌈
Finished reading: The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto. 📚
I’ve read a few books by Banana Yoshimoto, and this one I enjoyed the most. The others, The Kitchen was one, maybe Goodbye Tsugumi, I found more difficult. Perhaps I should return to them sometime and give them another go?
Changing things up a bit. A black and white photograph of a rainbow, along with the moon yesterday evening. 🌈
The local cockerels greeting a new day (you’ll probably need to turn up the volume).
Yes there were rainbows today. 🌈
This one from this morning:
And this one from this afternoon:
Happy Halloween to those who celebrate. 🎃
I usually find myself watching from the sidelines, and one year I headed to the summit of Haleakala to watch the sunset and the stars come up…it is possible to see so many more at 10,023ft (3,055m). But boy it was cold! 🥶
I don’t usually celebrate Halloween, though as I drove home from my men’s group this evening I enjoyed seeing all the spooky decorations that people had outside their houses.
About to pull out of the local recycling center this evening I spotted this rainbow. 🌈
This morning’s double rainbow. 🌈
😕 Sometimes I feel as if I’m losing control of everything around me. The reality is that I am probably rarely in control, though the illusion indicates otherwise. ⚘
Watch out for the snails
One thing that our increasingly wet weather has produced is a lot of snails. They are everywhere…outside, that is. I don’t think that I have ever seen so many here?
If I am walking around outside I have to watch where I am putting my feet, especially at night when they are most active. There is nothing worse than that crunch as I step one, sadly ending another life.
🙈 There are some men working on our roof, a second story roof, replacing optimizers on the back of a couple of our photovoltaics. I do not have a head for heights and can’t stand watching them working up there. Inside for me, or at least out of sight of the roof, just going out to checkin with them when their feet are on terra firma. ⚘
😑 It’s a still and moody evening. The weather has been building for a couple of hours now, building to a silence. And now it feels as though we are sitting, waiting for something to happen. Oh, there is a puff of wind, …and now stillness again, the quiet broken by a passing car. Just waiting… ⚘
The Bunker: Monday 27th October, 2025
All credit to the artist(s) 🎨
Driving from the north east of the island, The Bunker is visible from a distance. If you are aware of what the last painting looked like, you’ll notice any changes as you approach the field from the east. This morning I did notice a difference, though found it hard to believe given that it was updated only a couple of days ago. I was early and had time, so I pulled over to jump the fence and walk over to the building.
Catching Up on Rainbows
Last week’s busyness and frustration saw me not posting any rainbow photos. That does not mean that there were none, as there most certainly were. I captured a number of them and am now posting them here in order to catch up.
10 Pointless Facts About Me
Well this all started with David over at Forking Mad back in April 2025. Since then a few others have jumped in, take a look at the Community Echoes at the end of this post.
Now, less than a week before November in the same year, and I have caught up with the questions and decided to give them a go.
The Bunker: Saturday 25th October, 2025
All credit to the artist(s) 🎨
I noticed a new face to The Bunker as I drove by yesterday, but time did not allow me to stop, clamber over the gate, walk across the field and take a photo. So passing that way this morning, and having time to do all of the above…I did so!
😒 Life gets busy and frustrating, resulting in me not posting much to my blog this week. I feel uncomfortable and frustrated (twice in one post) not being able to do so, and I’m wondering why?
I think that it is a reflection of what blogging means to me as a form of self-expression - whether that is through writing or photographs shared.
I think that it is also about having the time to sit and create. When that is unavailable to me for too long, I find the void that emerges just starts to eat away at me. Sometimes a piece comes out very quickly - create, post, done - other times (this post is a case in point), because of my frame of mind, what I am trying to say or convey, not having the right atmosphere around me, other (?), the creative process just takes time. If those are not available to me, nothing is produced. ⚘
🌵 Today has been the driest day in the last week, and I am so happy to be able to say that. With that said a Red Flag Warning has been issued for leeward areas of Maui through to Saturday. I’m fortunate to live in an area where rain has started to fall again, others are not. ⚘
🍂 Something has clicked in the air during this last week. It is not just the increased rainfall that I have been alluding to here, though that is certainly a part of it. No, the Trade Winds are blowing cooler, the water feels cooler, days are that little bit shorter (the difference between mid-summer and mid-winter light is not as pronounced as more northerly latitudes, but it is there), and then there’s that little je ne sais quoi in the air. A switched has been switched and we are no longer in summer. The season has changed. Autumn has arrived in the islands. ⚘