I stepped outside this evening to a clear night sky, and there traveling overhead was a trail of Starlink satellites. That was the first time that I had seen them. It looked like a trail of Christmas lights floating across the sky. It was quite a sight. I’m now on the look out for the next sighting with the aid of this website.
I like Manuel Moreale’s analogy of seeing the online world as a mirror of the physical one.
Day 5 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Forest, suggested by @ovr
The woodland leading down to the river Avon from Durdham Downs in Bristol, my stomping ground when I was growing up.
Sunset this evening from our lanai.
Hiking Haleakala Crater
Monday, September 4, 2023
I spent yesterday hiking Haleakalā Crater with a friend. The mountain sits at just over 10,000ft in altitude. The crater that is there today is not a classic volcanic crater, but rather a large erosional valley. It is believed that two valleys, Ko‘olau to the north and Kaupō to the south, expanded into the remains of a much larger volcano, possibly 12,000ft high, creating the crater that is there today.
Day 4 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Orange, suggested by @ekcragg.
😮💨 Exhausted but happy after a day hiking through Haleakala crater today.
😮💨 Exhausted but happy after a day hiking through Haleakala crater today.
Day 3 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Precious, suggested by @odd.
Precious memories of past travels, this in Nepal, 1989 (photo of slide).
I spent this afternoon working in our yard. As an aside from this story, I have never quite got use to Americans calling what surrounds their house a yard. In the UK it is a garden and when you are working out there, you are gardening.
Anyway, I was out in our yard pushing a wheelbarrow backwards and forwards, going to the shed for tools, and was wondering how far I was traveling just by walking around the garden. In steps (pun not intended) my Apple Watch. I set it to measure an open ended walk, and carried on working.
A little while later a vibration on my wrist told me that I had just hit the one mile mark. I was really quite surprised, and it showed me the exercise that I can do just by being in the garden.
Day 2 of the September 2023 Photoblogging Challenge.
Buildup - suggested by @V_
Miami, FL
Day 1 of the September 2023 Photoblogging Challenge.
Abstract - suggested by @greghiggins
Volterra, Italy
August 2023 Newsletter letter
Friday, September 1, 2023
August 2023 Well after a run of 14 newsletters, the last one being at the end of April this year, I have not sent a newsletter for three months now. April and May found my wife and I in Portugal, based in Alcácer do Sal where we have a town house. At some point during our two month stay I became unwell. Initially it appeared to be hay fever, allergies which I escape here in Hawai’i.
🤪 I was going to do something, look something up, and now (two minutes later) cannot remember for the life of me what that was??
🤪 I was going to do something, look something up, and now (two minutes later) cannot remember for the life of me what that was??
I’m more than a little out of practice with yoga right now. This morning I took a one and a half hour class. Plenty of shaking limbs and hard breathing as I tried to maintain the postures. The class finished four and half hours ago, and I am still feeling it.
Volunteering
Monday, August 28, 2023
As the result of an email that I received late on Friday night, Saturday saw me out at Lahaina Gateway, volunteering with the relief effort for those effected by the wild fires almost three weeks ago. Volunteers met up in the town of Wailuku, on the north west side of the island, at 7:45am Saturday morning. A group of sixty two volunteers had shown up. About half had been over to Lahaina before, half had not.
Finished reading: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers 📚
☔ It’s pouring here in Haiku.
☔ It’s pouring here in Haiku.