my favourite photos

this is a place called lapahoehoe. the name means the tip of the smooth lava. it is a famous surf site and on this day we were giving an english visitor a whistle stop tour of the island. as we stood and watched the breathtaking surf crashing on the rocks, the sea literally plucked a man from the rock in front of us. his ten yr old son standing next to him was untouched. three local boys dove in after him (their bravery unquestionable) and pulled him further out to sea until help arrived, desperately trying to keep him afloat on their boogie boards. hubby called emergency and a helicopter pulled him from the raging sea. once on ground they tried vainly to resuscitate him, but to no avail. it was like a movie unfolding before our eyes. the experience changed forever the way our young english friend viewed life, and she returned to england, changed her job, ditched her boyfriend, and took charge of her own life in a way most people fail to do. i have often thought of deleting this photo from my 'favorites' folder, but it serves as a reminder that life is fragile, and one must 'seize the day'.

 

Maybe you just got me at an emotional moment, but reading this makes shivers run down my back and I want to weep. For good reason...for the impact it had on your friend. Don't delete this photo from your files....it may be riddled with sadness but it also holds the key to someone else unlocking their life through the tragedy Thanks for sharing that difficult memory Laurie.

 

geology 101

this is pahoehoe lava. pahoe means rippling, so the name means much rippling. there are two sorts of lava, this and a'a which is sharp honeycomb type thing. a'a is the sound you make walking on it. the hawaiian names for volcanic stuff are the accepted geological terms in the science.

 

We went xmas shopping yesterday and although i lived in london for 19 years i had never taken a cheesy tourist pic yesterday i finally did it.

 

Cool...been there and I didn't even take a picture, and I was the cheesy tourist!!! LOL

Roger

 

leister square? or piccadilly circus? or maybe trafalgar? ice too see anyhow, so thanks. i miss london occasionally.

 

It is piccadilly circus.

This is trafalger square.

 

ahh, bless you.

 

It was a good day but now we have no money

 

We were just going through the pics and we found 1 of me looking like the devil with big ben in the background.

 

this is a beach called mahukona. the name means leeward steam or vapor.

 

That is beautiful.

 

Beautiful pics. Keep 'em coming!

 

mauna kea. the name means white mountain, (snow topped in the 'winter'). if you look carefully you can see the worlds best telescopes on the top.

 

mauna loa. the name means 'long' mountain, and is in fact the largest single mountain mass in the world, although slightly shorter than mauna kea, which is the tallest mountain in the world. hawaii holds a whole number of records for all sorts of natural phenomina.

 

for those of us that don't know, how much of it is under water?

 

a lot!! no idea, but this is the middle of the pacific, so however deep that is. lol, a lot. i know that mauna kea is 14,000 ft, so whatever the hight of everest is 29,000, minus 14,000, and plus some more. 5.6 miles from the floor? i think

 

me and my boy.

 

now you have a face to the name.

 

[brown-nose mode]..And a very pretty face to a very nice person! [/brown-nose mode off]

 

ahh shucks. thanks.

 

Bringing back a lot of memories Laurie...the USMC sent me to Kanehoe(sp?)Bay to the All-Marine softball camp a couple hundred years ago lol. Beautiful place...quite windy but Very nice. (you ain`t so bad either )

 

Oahu??

 

plumaria. the smell of these flowers are the first thing you notice when you arrive in kona. i never tire of it.

 

Yep...I was there in 1981.

 

That's what we call Frangipanis, they grow wild in Queensland, which is mainly tropical too. I have one around the side of the house. It must be about 15 feet tall. It doesn't get watered much, or anything, but still grows vigorously. They like the heat.

The variety below is tinged whith pink, instead of yellow.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/445908394/445944988TlcpVy

 

Pic I took of Sahalie Falls in Oregon this May.

 

yep, thats the stuff. we have pink ones too, and darker yellow ones. they both 'last longer' when cut then the 'ordinary' ones. this is what most hawaiian leis are made of.

 

too cool

 

I thought Frangipanes were a delicious biscuit kinda thing in England, no?

Here is probably one of my most pleasing picturesque photos I took on the McKenzie River October 2004.

 

Here, even...5 minutes wasn't long enough to edit the photo

 

that is just tooo coool lol. see... hawaii isnt the only breathtakingly pretty place in the world. i oftan feel guilty (believe it or not) that i am so lucky i managed to end up here. but that picture is cool.

 

Well Frangipanes are. Frangipanis are the flower thang.
They would taste a bit different too, I imagine.

 

Ohhhh...try them...let me know

 

rainbow falls. so called because in the morning the rising sun makes a rainbow from the mist.

 

Abby`ll concur...and you`ll see, when spring returns, I`ll post some fingerlakes pics that`ll blow you folks away, especially those of you that see NY as a concrete/macadam/steel jungle. That`s a TINY part of this beautiful state...you`ll see. Until then I`m enjoying the pics I`m seeing in a huge way.

 

Top of the Sierra Buttes...

 

Breathtaking

We don't have "buttes" in England. I had to learn to say it correctly...everyone laughed when I called them butts

Just another one of those cultural words.......

 

my boys. lol. the little dog is shadow, the big one is boysie. boysie is my companion, but shadow is my ray of sunshine. he is perminately happy. (because 'no brain, no feeling" lol)

 

that should be 'no sense, no feeling' ?

 

Hunama Bay (feeding frozen peas to the Parrot fish)
the Hula Bowl <= i for got the name of the stadium (great flea market!)
Haleiwa (Volleyball on the Beach at sunset),
and installing signal multiplexers on the base at Hickam AFB...
Ahhh, those were the days...

 

My Contribution:- Perth's kinda pretty is some locals. This one was taken from across the Swan River.

 

cant decide which is best so sending all four for anyone who loves these beautiful dinosaurs

 

and two more

 

A couple of my favorites
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d151/KStuhler/Cats/0031.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d151/KStuhler/2.jpg

 

my daughter spent some time in Eugine. OR. she said it was beautiful. i spent some time as a child in Burns, but don't remember it. your photo is enticing.

 

this is the view i see every morning taking my son to school. i go over the kohala mountains twice a day and it never gets old.

 

waipio vally. totally beautifull. the name means 'curved water'

 

ps. the horses are 'wild'.

 

the valley from the top