Mokihana's Garden

Ho, long time no update, yeah? This is why. Like I said before, we’d saved my Canon camera memory card to take the video of Old Faithful with; I also had my old Nikon, and Nolemana had his Olympus and his small Panasonic.

My Canon had no memory left, so we started using whatever camera was the most handy, and so in trying to make some kind of consecutive narrative here, I had to try figure out which photo came next according to the time stamps on the photos. Because we weren’t nearly as organized as we were on our Montana trip this year. It took me a lot longer than I’d thought, because the other problem was that we forgot to set the correct time stamps before we left; and of course there were the time changes, too.
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K’den. Da next entry foa da road trip stay taking long time cuz I trying foa organize photos between chree different memory cards! In da meantime, get dis:

Outside my window…..it’s dark but I hear my dove cooing. (more…)

Okay. I stay sitting hea wit wai maka to da max. Made my day!

Outside my window… the sun is shining, and I’m watching birds coming to the feeders, and Oregon Big-Leaf Maple leaves dancing in the breeze. (more…)

(Warning: Photos may be disturbing.)

Hearing a loud thump, I race to the front window where I think the sound is coming from, and as I feared, you have hit the window, hard. Was something chasing you that you would fly so fast into the window and instead of finding escape you found glass? Or did you think you saw the sky, open and free before you? (more…)

This is just wonderful! Mahalo to my auntie and uncle who forwarded it to me.

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I had so much fun doing the first video that I decided to make another one. This one is of the trip that my wonderful daughters and I made on Mother’s Day this year. (more…)

Thanks to Debra at Sparrowgrass who helped me be able to do this, may I present for your enjoyment Nā Manu I Ka Nahele, or, The Birds From the Forest (outside my office window) with one tiny hamajang (text wea not supposed to be). OMG. My blog neva going be da same! (more…)

K’den. This time I’m not gonna say much, because the videos will speak for themselves. But do me a favor and turn your volume down so you don’t get blasted out by my whoo-hooing. I sound stupit. Sigh. (more…)

So da humu wen get his latté, right? But Mike thought da pooah fishie stay kinda lonely, so he wen get one idea. First, I gotta explain dat when Mike gets one idea, den watch out! (more…)

So eh. Remembah dis humuhumunukunukuapua‘a I wen knit foa Hawaiian Beanz Coffee Shop, my home away from home? Everybody ova dea loves him.

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The other evening Nolemana and I were driving home from town along Tillstrom Road, which is probably our most frequently travelled road. That’s the road we take to get to Portland, to Clackamas, to church, and most everywhere else heading makai. I much prefer this road to highways, because it winds through the hilly forested areas around where we live and is semi-rural, similar to where we live. (more…)