Thursday, July 31, 2008
Hawaiian afterthought
Such interest I had one more unique fact about the island for you all.
These wild chickens are everywhere. Supposedly they escaped after a
storm and have been breeding prolifically ever since. You see them by
the roadside, in open-air restaurants and around bins everwhere.any of
them just plain but I found a couple of fancy ones especially for my
world readership.
Hydrangeas
Home Again
without returning to problems.
In winter burst pipes and in summer dead lawn.
The strange thing is that it gets watered every morning. I think it is
growing hydroponically - which I think means without soil. So it is
probably sitting in a bed of ash where the dead patches are and needs
extra extra water.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Diet
sauce whipped cream
The way to a man's heart is ---
Friday, July 25, 2008
Local weed
Tais
Sorry for the lack of text - too busy swimming and taking photos
Boy in Banyan tree
Bambuddha
Bamboozled
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Red soil
Wild goats
How green is my valley?
On my way for an early salt swim
Early morning pig
burried in sand.
By 7 pm it is delicious tender Kahlua Pork - usually eaten at a Luau
(fake tradition of Hawaii for tourists.
Fish Restaurant
threw them some bread they messages their friends and the numbers grew
fast.
They were piled on top of each other.
I am hoping for a helicopter ride later today weather permitting.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Somewhere over the
Fascinating Foliage
Did I mention
Flowers on the beach
Blue Hawaii
Sunrise
Monday, July 21, 2008
First I saw this
then this
A novel "roll"
toasted and slit 3/4 of the way through, buttered and stuffed with
excellent, seasoned lobster.
Very tender and juicy
The great grey Pacific
San Francisco. This place is famous for fog, especially in Summer.
Heading a couple of thousand miles into the middle of the Pacific
tomorrow, hoping for blue and a chance to take my coat off.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Another day
Another art gallery (art museum in the US)
The corpse of the culture vulture twitched again today. I have tried to post the last first - but a wagging finger just told me "no photo" I think he gets paid by the Boring Blog Prevention Brigade.
I was at Frida's house in Mexico City last November but most of my modest mite of knowledge came from the movie which I just wrote about but you haven't read yet.
Friday was seriously injured in a bus accident and many of her paintings express her pain and suffering after this. She was also involved with Leon Trotsky who fled to Mexico and was assasinated there. Anti communist feelings in the US caused murals by Frida's husband Diego Rivera to be discontinued and removed from
Public buildings in the US. 
Self Portrait
Diego Rivera
played by Selma Hyek (my entry for the best looking woman in the
world) you should!
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Reverse blogging
subject and the last thing I post appears first to you, my vast
readership. Anyway I was dragged around this Dale Chihuli glass
exhibit in the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park in SanFrancisco. I
should learn to hold back on the introduction to a series of blogs but
I never know when the last one will be until the next morning.
Enough rambling! This is starting to sound like a Ringsted blog but
with a less interesting theme.
How much glass can a man blow
Friday, July 18, 2008
Some flowers
Well actually these are in a pot by the front door.
If you're going to San Francisco
As I was leaving
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Apricots!
By consultation with the learned Google and tasting one, last night,
there seems no doubt they are apricots. Nice ones too.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The Burdens of the Blogger
Here are the other ice skating photos I promised you. As to paying to fall over in cold dirty water - as W commented - it is a LOT cheaper than skiing - which could be similarly described - and this was crisp ice with no water and in the open air
on a warm evening.
There are few enough sporting type activities I can actually just-about do and skating without falling over is one, cycling and swimming completes the list for me. I took both W and B skating a few times - M once in Solihull and I never saw her so frightened. I also took j,d,t and p - all aj's sons too once, which they reminded me of the last time I met them - most likely at B and E's wedding.
So to the subject of the title. As a blogger I am burdened with a constant guilt over not having blogged for a day or so - like as sort of literary constipation.
I get gentle reminders from the father of this suite of blogs and wonder if people like B have any feelings of guilt at all about their prolonged absences?
Off to San Francisco Hawaii (Kauai) for a few days on Friday so you will have to put up with Iphone postings (if you are lucky and it works there)
Breckenridge - an old ski resort
Three thousand feet higher than Boulder and refreshingly cooler on Sunday - 60's instead of 90's - remember F=C*9/5 + 32. You can substitute for C if you want to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius.
The first to comment with conversions will receive my gratitude.
Returning from our weekend getaway
The Loveland Pass was a lot like the Rocky Mountain National Park - which avid readers will remember from my motorcycle jaunt last summer. This pass did not have a conveyor belt of nose-to-tail traffic though and you don't have to pay to get in.
