Posts tagged Flickr
Just noticed: My last upload there was photo number 9,000 on Flickr for me (since May 2008). Love it just as much as when I started, so here’s to 9,000 more!
Pinecone Promise on Flickr.
Jumping for joy… all schedules have aligned (quite the feat for 5 career-ing adults) and the entire ‘Ohana can be together for a week book-ending Christmas Day this year — Halleluiah!
Heartfelt on Flickr.
In The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard writes,
“Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up. But a child’s purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn’t disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment.”
Growing, however, is a beautiful process too, for it is filled with a multitude of those moments.
A dolphin to lead the way on Flickr.
(Click and scroll down for a second shot).
Remembering another summer day earlier this year. Don’t you just love Sundays?
Busy as a bee on Flickr.
Remembered taking this photo in Fremont’s Gasworks Park last month, when David Zinger told us about his Zing Hive project on Talking Story yesterday.
That phrase, “busy as a bee” isn’t their whole story, says David.
Love this project for so many reasons.
Note great rationale with getting a new (and better) camera… street cred.
Storytelling on Talking Story today, thanks to my recent trip to Portland, Oregon:
See it, snap a photo of it, look up its story
In doing so, you are sure to practice the value of Mahalo — appreciating those elements which make your life most precious to you.
You’ll also learn about a wealth of different things in the process…
One of the many benefits of blogging, and perhaps the biggest reason I still do it, is that I have such thoughtful readers, people who care deeply, and who will gently coach me through rough spots, whether small spots, as in helping me write better (run on sentence now in progress…) or larger spots, such as with the emotional roller coaster of the Sendai earthquake and tsunami.
For instance, Dan Oestreich wrote this for me on Talking Story:
Another friend has often said to me that these problems, whether natural disasters or the disasters we make for ourselves in our too small self-involved world, are all teachers.
May we learn.
So in thinking about this, I wrote an update in the comments of Waiakauhi Pond will heal. We will too — which was posted on my blog Sunday in a flood of emotional sharing, serving as an example of how impulsive I can be even days later. I then thought the update should be here, on Ho‘ohana Aloha too, for blog comments are so easily hidden. Mahalo Dan, and thank you to all of you who have commented there, and via email or tweet.
Post Update: People have asked me about the significance of Waiakauhi Pond ~ you know me too well, reading into my title as you are! I’m thinking about doing a follow-up post to explain a bit more, but meanwhile, these are good articles about the work marine biologist, and very good friend David Chai has done there:
1. On Golden Pond, Hana Hou Magazine
Chai had fallen into an anchialine pond, one of Hawai‘i’s most threatened and mysterious ecosystems. These seemingly landlocked bodies of brackish water are found along the Islands’ coastal lava flows, connected to the ocean via subterranean caves, tunnels, cracks and crevices. In the United States, these habitats exist only in the Hawaiian Islands, with the vast majority of the 700 or so ponds and pools found on the Big Island.
2. Hawaii Island Biologists Restores Ancient Hawaiian Fishponds, Diane Ako for KHNL via HawaiiNewsNow
Chai and his staff restored 14 ponds in the mid 90’s. The 2 ½ acre Waiakauhi is his crowning achievement. The fully restored fishpond tees with life. Native grasses fringe the perimeter, while indigenous Hawaiian fish swim occasionally burst through the surface with a jump or a fin. The early Hawaiians used the ponds, so Chai stocked this one with fish and shrimp like “awa, milkfish; mullet, ama ama; papio, aholehole, manini- all traditional Hawaiian fishpond fish.” In the middle of the pond are several islands, which Chai built for native birds like these endangered Hawaiian stilts. “Islands afford protection from mongoose, cats and rats. So they really need islands to be protected.”
David also leads the stewardship efforts with the ponds at Kona Village.
The Ku‘uali‘i fishpond pictured above in my post is the largest one at ‘Anaeho‘omalu Bay at Waikoloa, and as happened at Waiakauhi, a significant portion of the sandbar protecting it was cut into by the tsunami surge this past Friday, opening the pond up to the sea.
The significance of this, is that they essentially can no longer be considered true anchialine ponds which are defined as ponds with brackish water, having no surface connection to the sea, yet exhibiting tidal rhythms due to a subsurface connection through cracks and crevasses. Anchialine ponds are exposed portions of the groundwater table, and a window into the vast underground realm where virtually nothing is known about numerous creatures that inhabit the earth’s darkness below us. Rare and unique groups of aquatic creatures inhabiting this subterranean realm will come to the pools of the anchialine ponds to feed.
One of the Kūki‘o anchialine ponds
There are more sites inbetween of course, but if I had ordered my post photos the way the shoreline proceeds from North to South, they would have appeared this way (numbers are as pictured above):
~ Waikoloa
‘Anaeho‘omalu Bay at Waikoloa (3)
Coconut grove at Ku‘uali‘i fishpond (6)
Within the Milo Tunnel at ‘Anaeho‘omalu (10)
~ Kona Village
A hale at Kona Village Resort (5)
The fishponds of Kona Village Resort (7)
~ Hualalai
Sunset at the Four Seasons Hualalai at Pahui‘a (9)
Shoreline reflections at the Four Seasons Hualalai (8)
Waiakauhi Pond, at Hualalai (1)
~ Kūki‘o
Natural wave erosion at Uluweluwelu Bay, Kūki‘o (2)
Kikaua Point Park, Kūki‘o (4)
I live in the ahupua‘a of Waikoloa, and much of the setting of my book, Managing with Aloha, was the ahupua‘a of Ka‘ūpūlehu, which includes Kona Village, Hualalai and Kūki‘o, thus, my mana‘o.
My most recent photos of our pond habitats were taken at Kūki‘o in July and August of 2010, and you can see the full photo set on Flickr: Kūki‘o Anchialine Ponds
Click directly on any of the photos above (i.e. in the original post), and you’ll be taken to the Flickr page it comes from… most are in other sets there.
This way children (by Rosa Say)
I took my camera with me on a late afternoon walk after seeing so many Hawaiian Nene geese on the 3rd hole of the Waikoloa Golf Course the day before. They are fairly easy to see from streetside if you know where to look for them (I’d take all of my walks on this golf course if not for the troublesome golfers!)
Of all the photos in the set, this is the one which makes me smile, for I remember the way the adults bobbed their heads up and down to signal and herd their goslings away from me without having to make a sound.
All the pictures I took were zoomed in, for I’d never bother them by getting too close. Caught them at a good time (for getting the family groupings): The breeding season runs through the winter months, typically between November and March.
Modest and delicious! (by Rosa Say)
First harvest ~ poha berry from the garden patch.
I have very fond childhood memories of these in my grandmother’s Kula Maui garden, and though I can find bottles of jam here it had been decades since I’ve seen them growing. I’d bought the plants at a summertime Farmer’s Market and have hovered about them hopefully ever since. Here is what they looked like on the bush a few weeks back.
