To Market, to Market

The great KCC Saturday market provided me with local-bread French toast and Portuguese sausage, plus Kona coffee, for breakfast. This photo leaves out the hordes who all stopped behind me in deference to my super-photographer abilities. Foodland grocery store provided me with pate to go with my Market olive bread (who knew there was pate to be had in Hawaii; never found any in Alaska!). The Market provided us with Alaskan salmon, too!

Saturday is errand day everywhere, even in Paradise, and so we moved through them all morning, and my friend had an errand in Macy's where I needed to occupy myself for half an hour, so I found two Hawaiian shirts, 3/4 sleeve and a Tee, with total price (yes, for the 2!) of $21.

New flowers pop up in the yard daily--these little orchids are the latest.

And, so it goes with Daily Life in Honolulu, taking over from The Tourist Round: Alaskan salmon at home tonight and a DVD of a classic movie from Movie Museum (rental, not on-site). The trade winds are back, so that wilt-in-a-minute hot spell is over and Paradise regains its appeal as, well, Paradise. With pate.

You Don't Want to Know

No, you really don't. If I were to go through this day it'd be sort of like this cartoon, with a tad more drama. No, I assure you, you don't want the 13-hour-long golden oldies playlist of the neighbor's new Karaoke machine. On the bright side, I'm totally ready for "Don't Forget the Lyrics"!! Nor do you need the saga of . . . . no, really, 'nuff already.

To lend a spot of beauty to this day, the pink hibiscus bush, full of blossoms, outside the back French doors is worth long contemplation (it hides the view, but not the sound of the Karaoke party). The petals are much pinker than the photo shows.....
So, ear plugs, a glass of white Merlot, pink hibiscus and the day is saved.

Oh la la.....tomorrow I have to remember it is 6 hours later on the East Coast. For them, it is already!

Quiet Afternoon

The house from the front garden is as serene as it looks.

Why is it that after blasting out gales and downpours to those with 6 shopping bags, does the weather turn balmy, clear, blue-sky, and still for the rest of a sleepy day at the house?

The path down out of the back door. Still only a fraction of the flowers all over the paths and yards.