🤞 The wind is just beginning to pick up. I hope that this means that the VOG will be gone soon. Being outside is not pleasant. The VOG is just hanging in the air. It has been like this for two days now. Sometimes the wind dies down to nothing at night, but I hope that this increased breeze is the beginning of change in the weather and clearer days ahead.
The author reflects on cherished memories of sharing Fred Basset cartoons with their late father, highlighting the bittersweet nature of reminiscence after his passing.
😶🌫️ The VOG is intense this morning. No wind is not helping. Kīlauea has been busy.
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Mural on one side of the Queen Ka’ahumanu Center.
Another rainbow appeared later this morning. Perhaps it is rainbow season? 🌈
This morning’s rainbow 🌈. A double rainbow. They actually arched right across the sky in a perfect arc, but it was raining at the time and I would have got soaked trying to capture that.
I took a while to see this through, but it was worth it.
Yesterday afternoon’s rainbow 🌈
This morning’s rainbow 🌈
We have classical music playing on this Sunday morning, and it is bringing back memories of my childhood.
Of my mother having breakfast in bed and reading a Sunday newspaper, all brought to her by my dad.
My dad deeply immersed in one of the difficult Sunday crosswords, or on his second crossword of the morning.
Then late morning, the smells of a Sunday roast emanating from the kitchen.
Everyone quietly getting on with their Sunday morning thing, to the background of classical music.
We’ve just finished watching this series on Apple TV+.
This morning’s, faint, rainbow out over the ocean 🌈
Following Amazon’s announcement that it will no longer be possible to download and backup Kindle books from February 26th, I have now been through my list of Kindle books, downloaded those not yet downloaded and saved them in Calibre.
I have also brought my Kobo Libra H2O out of retirement. I’ll be returning to the Kobo store. I bough the Libra a few years back wanting to move away from Amazon. However, I returned to Amazon as I preferred the reading experience on Kindle.
I drove home yesterday evening coming down the Haleakala Highway. It affords one a view of the West Maui mountains in front, the south shore to the left and the north shore to the right. On a clear day the island of Molokai is also visible to the north west.
My forth time watching this Studio Ghibli movie, and I still love it. 🍿
I haven’t written much on my blog for a few weeks now. There were a couple of posts at the end of January related to a big storm that was passing through the islands, otherwise for the most part I have been silent for almost three weeks. Up until that point I was posting most days. It isn’t that my blog has lost interest for me. I value this space. My little corner of the internet.
Well last night was quite the storm. This storm was passing through the Hawaii Island chain. It had already battered Ni’ihau, Kauai and Oahu and was now approaching the county of Maui made up of the islands of Maui, Lana’i, Moloka’i and Kahao’olawe. Being a Kona storm, it came in from the south. Living on the north shore of Maui, the bulk of Haleakala protected us through the day - the winds were slight and the rain was non-existent.
⛵ I have not seen rain like this here for a long time. I find it fascinating and scary at the same time. I hope that everyone is safe out there. The grading of the land appears to be redirecting the water around our house with small rivers appearing. If not, I think that we might sail away.