😑 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… ⚘
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.
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.
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.
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. ⚘
🌧️ Recently I’ve spoken a lot here about rain and the lack of it over the last few months here on Maui. Now it appears to be falling with more frequency, and it is a joy to hear. Yes, the sun is still here and yesterday was dry for the most part, but rain is falling as I write this. ⚘
💧 Since the rains have returned to Maui, I am reminded of a phenomena that I experience here and have not experienced anywhere else (please let me know if you experience this where you are). I am outside. Above me there is a clear sky, sun out. Aways off I can see rain clouds, perhaps a major storm brewing, perhaps a squall coming in. But that is off to one side. Not above me. I am experiencing sunny, clear weather….except occasionally, I feel sprinkles of rain. It is clear sky above me, and I am experiencing sprinkles of rain. It is as though the rain in the distance is being blown to where I am standing, that is the only conclusion that I can come to. I have truly never experienced this anywhere else. ⚘
🌦️ Wet with sunny spells. That has been the weekend weather since Friday and I am happy to be able to say that. May it continue… ⚘
I spent today making a few cosmetic changes to my website. For the most part longer posts to my blog are headed with a title. This isn’t always true. There are a couple of longer posts which are without a title, but it is true enough for that to be a guiding light for how to find a longer post here. Thinking that some visitors might prefer to go straight to longer posts, or at least have a doorway that leads directly to them, I have added a new menu item to the navigation bar, Longer Reads.
The rainbows are starting to appear with increased abundance now. One that I missed last night while we were out eating presented itself in dark vivid colours at dusk. The wetter weather of the last couple of days is definitely helping.
This double rainbow appeared this morning. 🌈
A Stage 3 drought was declared yesterday on many parts of the island of Maui. So far into October and there has been little rain for months now. Dropping into autumn is usually the time for the rains to start.
…And at the same time as the drought is declared, maybe there are signs that the rains are returning? Last night and the night before it rained off and on through the night. Cloud cover yesterday cut the heat of the sun, even if rain was little. And now, as light appears here on a Saturday morning, rain falls. Here’s hoping. ⚘
The 98th Maui County Fair ran for four days, ending on Sunday October 5th. This was the first County Fair since COVID, and from what I have heard and experienced was packed from the day that it opened. I’ve read it reported that 30,000 people were in attendance on some days (every day?). Waiting for rides at times, especially going into the weekend evenings, was 45 minutes to an hour.
This morning’s rainbow. It did not join, but the two ends were visible as shown in the two photographs. 🌈
🍛Evening sounds surround me. My men’s group has been canceled for the evening and so I find myself by chance out and about. On the way home I’ve stopped at a food truck for an unexpected dinner. I hear voices near me, music playing while people kick back for the evening, utensils clanging against saucepans as food is prepared. A day comes to end, an evening begins. ⚘
…And this afternoon’s rainbow. Two rainbows in a day, one at either end, maybe the sign of wet weather returning? 🌈
This morning’s rainbow 🌈
With a dose of curiosity I recently asked Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT the following question, “Can you please look at the website www.crossingthethreshold.net and tell me what sort of person you think David Johnson is?" When I make use of AI, ChatGPT has been the platform that I go to. Why? Probably because as far as I am aware it was the first to appear for mainstream use, I started tinkering with it and over time have got used to its idiosyncrasies.