😒 Not a fun day, at least not in my book. I sit now at the far end of it wondering where it all went? Little was achieved that I wanted to get done…what little I have done was attempted at the far end of the day when I was definitely not firing on all cylinders.
What happened? A day of constantly moving pieces, and I was never sure where they were moving to. I hope that tomorrow will be better, though at the moment I’m not sure that it will?
I see that the Holidays are just round the corner. Maybe that has something to do with it?! ⚘
This evening’s sunset.
🐋️ Saturday morning on Oahu, sitting on the balcony of our hotel having a morning coffee and looking out over the ocean, I saw my first whale sighting of the season. One, maybe two spouts of water blown into the air. The Humpback whales are returning to Hawaii’s waters for the winter to calf. ⚘
This morning’s double rainbow. 🌈
😖 Waking this morning, back home, with what I will call a Travel Hangover, that feeling I get after returning from time away involving a lot of travel. However, this was just an overnight trip to the island of Oahu with some friends, to support my wife’s son in an event that he was hosting.
Maybe it was that we were on the go for most of our time away? Or maybe it was simply having to navigate airports even though the flight was a quick hop, skip and a jump from Maui?
Whatever the cause, today will be spent landing back here on Maui. ⚘
Looking out at Diamond Head, Honolulu.
Rainbow over the hills above Honolulu this afternoon. 🌈
🌆 I’m not a city person, but I notice and enjoy the stimulation that I get from visits to the big city.
In Hawaii’s big city, Honolulu. ⚘
🌧️ The microclimates of Maui. We have woken up to low cloud, wind and torrential rain. I was in touch with a friend earlier who lives on the other side of the mountain, Haleakala, and he said that there is not a drop of rain there. ⚘
A rainbow, in fact a double rainbow from mid morning yesterday. 🌈️
😫️ Struggling. Struggling emotionally for a lot of today. I could see myself in there, but could not find a way out. The later part of the day offered me some space where I could catch on some sleep and tasks that needed to be done. Now I feel fresher and more in control of myself.
A learning from this might have been to stop and create some space for myself. Perhaps to have taken a walk earlier, once an essential job was taken care of. ⚘
A rainbow seen at Ho’okipa Beach Park early afternoon today. By the time that I drove away a little later a second rainbow was visible above this one, and the colours of this rainbow appeared deeper against dark grey storm clouds. 🌈
I was sitting writing a post yesterday when one of my grandson’s showed up. He asked if he could do some typing - I was using the portable keyboard that bought for my iPhone a year ago. So I passed the keyboard over to him and he started running his fingers across the keyboard.
Here’s a section of what he wrote. If you look carefully you can see his name.
I watched this rainbow morph in shape and size this morning. 🌈
🦶 My wife and I are looking after the grandkids this weekend while their parents are away. Last night I slept in bed with one of them and received an unceremonious kick in the middle of the night as he turned over. I woke up very quickly. ⚘
🌞 Awoke to a clear sunny day. And it has that stillness that a weekend morning can bring. A nippy chill as well.
You know, after all the wind and rain of this last week, despite that weather being so welcome after the drought conditions of the last couple of months, this morning feels like a breather, a rest and is welcome in itself. ⚘
Earlier this morning I was driving to the local recycling center and could see through the trees, a rainbow arching across the sky. By the time that I had arrived and parked up, it had diminished in size but was still there. 🌈
🌬️️ Famine or Feast. That appears to be our weather at the moment. Two weeks ago I was writing about drought like conditions, Stage 3 water restrictions, yellow straw like grass, and bushes and trees visibly struggling. Now we have strong winds and heavy downpours. I’ll take it. In fact I like it. A familiar autumnal feeling. Even the temperature is down.
The water restrictions have now be lessened to Stage 1, at least in this part of the island. The microclimates are such here in Maui that some areas are not so lucky. Here’s hoping that as we drop into winter some wet weather can be dumped across the whole island. ⚘
The migraine might not have gone, but acupuncture worked wonders yesterday. I felt like a pin cushion as I lay on the therapy table. Some of the needles were for the migraine, others for other disparate murmurings that my acupuncturist could detect in my pulses.
Needles were placed in my ear. These were for the migraine I was told. When one went in I almost left the table. With an apology, my acupuncturist rarely hits a point that hurts that much, he tried again.
