We visited King Estate with friends from Hawaii...

View from King Estate Winery near Lorane, Oregon

My obscured view of Diamond Head

Afternoon then evening snaps of Diamond Head

Delicacies of Hawaii: Lumpia

One of my favorite foods:  lumpia.

More daybreaks...

The skies in Hawaii are so beautiful...

Another sunrise...

Dawn in Honolulu

Breaking dawn in Honolulu...

Mo' betta' grindz: mango and lau lau...

Local delicacies...mango and lau lau...

On the walk to work...

This morning's view from the apartment...

The true color of daybreak this morning...

Mo' grindz from Hawai'i!

Papaya for breakfast, adobo for dinner -- thanks Yvonne!

Favorite things in Hawai'i: Waiola Shave Ice mascots

One of our favorite places in Honolulu, Wailoa Shave Ice

On a recent visit to Roseburg, Oregon...

Salmon sculpture in Roseburg, Ore.

"Grandpa legs" at Kaimana Beach

Isabel said, "Aloha Grandpa legs..."

Poke with avocado, green tea shave ice with mochi, and spam and eggs...

Grindz in Hawai'i

Koa Pancake House in Kaneohe es la bomba!

Vinha d'alhos and papaya crepe

Roots

Roots of a large tree near my office

Clouds over Punahou School...

Clouds over Punahou School

Morning sky...

The sky was afire this morning....

Follow the yellow brick road...

Halloween night on Waikiki is a real scene...

Crowd shot from above...

Dusk in Honolulu and some thoughts about displacement...

I shot this image last night on my way home from work...

I found this interesting quote from a New Yorker article about the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes which cited the late great Cuban writer in exile, Reinaldo Arenas, who said of cultural displacement:

"Everyone who lives outside his context is always a bit of a ghost, because I am here, but at the same time I remember a person who walked those streets, who is there, and that same person is me.  So sometimes I really don't know if I am here or there.  And at times the longing to be there is greater than the necessity of being there."

Good morning, Honolulu!

This morning's views from my apartment...

Two images from my brief visit to Oregon...



Front yard in Eugene and a cool painting by YDM.

Foliage in Eugene...



Foliage this afternoon in Eugene, Oregon...

View from my office at the law school...

Trees and plants outside my office window during the late afternoon...

The meeting was long and the breaks much too short...

Taking a break at a work meeting at the Halekulani...

Details of Charlot mural at UH Manoa's Bachman Hall



"Night Hula" is one of several of artist Jean Charlot's murals on campus. I read that it is 9x15' and depicts an ancient Hawaiian Hula scene. It was originally created as a private commission for a law office in Waikiki, then it was moved in 1991 and donated by the Aluli family to Kamehameha Schools.  After suffering some pretty serious weather-related damage there, it was re-located to UH-Manoa and restored in 2003. It is pretty cool -- and near my office.