Tag: nature
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Waterspouts, ho!
I had to do an exchange at the mall downtown today and wound up strolling around for a while enjoying the fresh air and people watching (and got a couple of new tops, too). The weather turned overcast and it started to rain a little, so I hurried back to my car which was parked…
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Monk Seal Surprise!
There is a beach up on the North Shore where you can almost always see Hawaiian green sea turtles. There are about forty (I think) that live in the area and usually one or two are up on the sand, basking. It’s an ideal place for them, and an ideal place to take out of…
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Stoneware and muddy rhinos
…but not at the same time… ^_^ We recently acquired four of these little soup bowls and I am thoroughly pleased with them. I wouldn’t normally broadcast a kitchen purchase (especially a small one), but these stoneware pot-style bowls are wonderful and if you’re near a Crate and Barrel you should go look at them.…
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The Big Island really is BIG.
This weekend we took a trip to Hawaii, the “Big Island,” and discovered that it’s very appropriately nicknamed. We barely drove half of it in the three days we were there. To be fair, we spent most of the first two days exploring and hiking around Volcanoes National Park, but we definitely didn’t have the…
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The Wildlife is Winning!
But not for long… I made a nasty discovery today. Well, two of them. The first was that I went to check my plants, as I do every morning, and one of my container gardens now contains a large number of round, bright yellow mushrooms. They’re the kind that seem to grow from a sort…
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Kauai, much delayed
I suppose I owe you a blog entry. Since, you know, July is 3/4 over and I haven’t written one iota. Well, that’s not quite true. I did caption the photos over at my photo journal… but I didn’t even add a little blurb over there when I uploaded new photos today. Shame on me.…
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The Tail-end of Whale Season
While my company was here visiting, we were out at the beach whale watching and noticed a whale breaching repeatedly. This happens sometimes, and if you sit there long enough there’s a decent chance you’ll see a breach. What we didn’t expect was this: The colloquial name for this is a “heat run,” though it…
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Stayin’ Alive
I feel that I should post something, but as I also feel I don’t have much that’s interesting to say, I haven’t posted anything. The past two weeks? Oh. That. Well…. We need new tires, Caspian has a possible systemic (i.e. his whole little kitty body) infection, the next door neighbors had their baby girl…
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Whale Census
This weekend was the February Whale Count. Since we had a tsunami the weekend before, it was postponed. My day consisted of getting up around 5am, getting ready (including packing a bag with snacks, water, sun screen, sunglasses, a hat, etc) and heading out before sunrise to the Lanai Lookout, which is a spot on…
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Maui Whale Tails
On Saturday, J and I flew to Maui to go whale watching. This sounds like a little bit crazy, especially since we didn’t spend the night, but Hawaiian Air offers reasonable prices for island hopping and it would’ve been expensive to stay somewhere on Maui, as it’s got a lot of resorts and things. Anyway,…
Joanna Volavka 