This Week's Colors

6am light at property corner

One of the most magical aspects of  living in Hawaii during the winter months is the unusually low sun angle. Here at 19.5 degrees latitude, in Pahoa on the Big Island, the winter solstice light is rare, like waves of particles in a spectral dance.The sun rises low with a golden glow at the back corner of our property. Although you can't see it in the photo, a bright pink ribbon circles that center tree marking our property line.

With less words and more pictures this entry, just enjoy the vibrant colors we enjoy every day.
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These are a few our regular geckos 

Violet blue flowers frame by Ti plants, Monarch butterfly laying eggs on the Crown Flower plant, scenes from the island's edge -- tidepools* at MacKenzie Park, roots* of Ironwood tree, and a favorite winter fruit -- Rambutan.

Remember, you can "click" on any of the small photographs to have a bigger/better view.

    

 (* 2 Photos taken by my friend Catherine and creatively adapted by me using PhotoShop.)

"Return"

"Return" by Lunel Haysmer (C)

"Return"

In the beginning we are light.

Then we become solid and heavy.

Finally, we remember how to fly

and we return.

This year many of us have said farewell to members of our ohana, including Phil's mom, Margaret.

Down at MacKenzie Park on the ocean here in PUNA, there is a pohaku stone everyone knows -- moved by the power of the ocean waves to its resting place on the edge of a outflow of pahoehoe overlooking the ocean.  One day when I was meditating on it, I thought it moved!  Returning home I wanted to capture something of the transformation that my eye could not see, but that my heart felt. The meaning of the word "PO" includes Original Darkness.  However, like many cultures around the world, its meaning reflects a place of Infinite Potentiality, the birth place from which everything comes.  In physics it would be that space/moment just before the Big Bang. As we say goodbye to our loved ones, we are bidding them farewell on their return flight home.