Photographs

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 20: Ice suggested by @the

This photograph shows the terminus of the Batura Glacier in the Karakorum mountains of Pakistan. It sits at around 4,000m (13,123ft), and at the time that I visited the glacier terminated 0.5km from the Karakoram Highway.

The terminus of the Batura Glacier in Pakistan showing a wall of ice with rocks and boulders in the foreground.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 19: Birthday suggested by me (@crossingthethreshold)

A series of small flags on a piece of string spelling out Happy Birthday. Strung above an open glass door with a view to outside

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 18: Mood suggested by @agilelisa

A rowing boat and small sail boat moored in a river estuary. In the foreground is a small rusty walkway. In the background are rolling green meadows and buildings just poking over the trees.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 17: Transcendence suggested by @drewbelf

Tibetan Buddhist Stupa

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 16: Flâneur suggested by @chrisaldrich

People walking along a street in Kyoto, Japan.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 15: Small suggested by @jmanes

A black and white photo of a small, tortoise shaped pin cushion

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 14: Cactus suggested by @christopherchelpka

Small cactus in a pot

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 13: Page suggested by @robj

A journal resting on my lap in a dark room, illuminated by a book reading light.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 12: Magic suggested by @DaveyCraney

The outline of a person maybe Shakespeare, on a wall surrounding a door, approached by a wooden bridge.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 11: Sky suggested by @jedda

The sun pears through a thick cloud fog as people and a dog sit around a picnic blanket looking on.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 10: Train suggested by @starrwulfe

Looking down on a train approaching a station.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 9: Crispy suggested by @rom

Grilling fish in a Japanese restaurant.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 8: Prevention suggested by @anniegreens

A fence in focus, behind which is a sports playing field and distant buildings.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 7: Well-Being suggested by @ridwan

Me floating in the ocean.

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 6: Windy suggested by @Miraz

An overcast windy day on the Isle of Skye, as spied through the ruins of an old church.

A frame of an old church window in the ruins of a church, looking out on an overcast, wet and windy day

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 5: Serene suggested by @chiawase

My quiet spot, wherever I am in the world, by the River Wye at Tintern Abby

Weeping Willow over hanging the River Wye in South Wales

Looking out over Bristol tonight.

Looking out over the city of Bristol at nighttime

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 4: Foliage suggested by @pratik

A remote valley on the north east side of Haleakala.

Looking out into a remote and heavily wooded valley on the north east side of Haleakala

April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 1: Toy suggested by @pcora

A row of wooden toys in the shape of castles, people and animals, all sitting on a shelf with a window behind. Outside there is blue sky and a green hedge.

This morning’s rainbow 🌈

A rainbow traverses the sky, slightly broken by cloud. In the foreground is a flower bed full of vegetation and a lawn.

I love this overcast, wet weather. I have the French windows open so that I can listen to the sound of the falling rain, and as it trickles down the down pipe from the gutters.

A heavily overcast sky, rain falling, a herbaceous border with a lawn in the foreground. On the lawn is a wheelbarrow with plants in it.

Cheeky Devil in China Town, Honolulu.

A sticker on a pipe depicting a walking green devil with black shoes on, small white wings, a pointy tail, a smiley face with horns on top, and above him a halo

A Little Bit of Magic in the Air

Maui has so many microclimates, and with that the weather can vary in a very short space of time. Yesterday from what I could see most of the island was covered in cloud. Where I live there was a lot of wind, but I had to run Upcountry and there the air was very different. It was still, so still. Even the landscape felt still. Being March there was a little chill in the air as well.

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Graffiti faces seen around China Town in Honolulu.

Graffiti on a doorway of a face, big eyes, triangular nose, with a concerned and worried expression. Various scribbles around and a padlock and chain hikding the door locked.

A couple of graffiti, cartoon faces on a street wall, one white, one black, both happy, cheeky looking with various other scribbles and writing over and around them.

Now this is something that I had not seen or tasted before. A green Matcha (green tea) IPA. We had been gifted a sushi meal at Islander Sake Brewery in China Town, Honolulu, and they served as this Matcha IPA from Kyoto. I think that this is the brew? Very tasty, and certainly a striking colour.

Two small glasses of green matcha beer, an IPA, with the server in the background serving two other customers.

Yesterday we visited the Honolulu Museum of Art to see an exhibition of David Hockney prints, both old and new. I had wanted to see this exhibition and with my wife’s birthday a couple of days before the exhibition closes, it made for good timing for a reason to head over to Honolulu to view it.

A huge David Hockney painting with two images of himself sat in chairs viewing prints that he has created.

In China Town, Honolulu yesterday evening.

Drawing of a blue and red Dragon on a door with the words, Dragon Upstairs

The Clean Up Crew - a flock of white egrets chasing the mower as the grass is cut.

A lot of white egrets on a mown lawn with a mixture trees and bushes around. A patch of blue sky with storm clouds brewing.

The Wall that Heals

A little over two weeks ago The Wall that Heals, a touring replica of the Vietnam Wall Memorial hosted by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, arrived in Maui. It was here for five days, and I went to visit it the day before it left. I saw the actual Memorial in Washington DC almost forty years ago, and although then I knew no one connected with the war and indeed little about the war, I found the Wall very moving.

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A table outside set for dinner last night, with friends having just arrived from out of State. Although a fire was lit in the fire pit and chairs set around it, a stormy evening dissuaded anyone (apart from myself) from hanging out around it.

A table outside but undercover set for dinner. A fire pit with chairs around it at the end of the table.