Three Hula Dancers

This beautiful large, bronze sculpture of three male Hawaiian dancers can be found near the entrance of the Grand Wailea Resort.

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Kiss On The Beach Two

Here's a lovely German couple I married in 2006 making a special kiss on the beach.

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Lha Bab Stupa

This is a corner of the new Lha Bab Stupa at the Maui Dharma Center which was ceremonially celebrated yesterday in Paia, Maui. If you'd like to see more photos, here's a link for the January 28th post.

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The Beauty of Trees

I like to photograph trees, and I particularly like photographing their interiors. Hardly a day goes by without my taking a photo of yet another tree. Trees call out to me!

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Iao Needle Two

The Iao Needle is probably one of the most photographed natural features of Maui. I posted another photo of it many posts ago, but here's another. I can't help myself. It's so photogenic.

The state part in which the Iao Needle is located is a great place to hike and/or sit beside a rushing mountain stream.

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Orchid Outside My Window

We were given this gorgeous orchid plant several years ago by friends. Since then, it has bloomed several times, and now it's blooming again. This orchid is what I see when I turn around from my computer desk.

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Holyland

This is the altar of the meditation room of the Tibetan Stuppa in Kanaio, one of the most unexplored areas of Maui-- which makes residents of this area very happy they're not overrun by tourists.

To get to this hard-to-reach stuppa, you have to be very persistent, a good hiker or have a four-wheel drive vehicle.

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Hana Waterfall

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West Maui Waterfall

This photo is from my collection of West Maui Mountains waterfalls. The ONLY way to photograph these isolated waterfalls is by helicoptor. At different times, I've been in helicoptors with the doors open so it's easy to get a clear shot.

The West Maui Mountains are uninhabited. However, there are rumors about Viet Nam vets and others living back in these areas. When I moved to Maui, I heard a story (which could very well be one of those Urban Legends) about a whole team of National Geographic explorers disappearing into this area never to be seen again.

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Maui News Gets Spiffy

If you visit Maui, you will discover spiffy new vending machines for the main island newspaper, the Maui News.

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Afternoon Siesta

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A Slice of Paradise

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Kiss On The Beach

I married this lovely couple and also took the photo. This is their wedding kiss. It was a perfect moment in time where the lavender sunset matched their Hawaiian wedding attire.

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Water Wings

This fountain is in the center of the high-end shopping center on Maui, the Shops of Wailea. Many pennies are in the bottom as one would expect.

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Prayer Flags

We recently hung up MORE prayer flags on another side of our home connected to two tall palm trees. We're lucky we live in the kind of neighborhood that tolerates these as some don't! We enjoy our many wind chimes and prayer flags, and we prize our fantastic, friendly neighbors. Every one of our neighbors has either a cat or a dog, and sometimes multiples of both. It's a happy neighborhood with dogs, cats, and kids running around all the time. The neighbor across the street just got their FIRST dog, an adorable Maltese puppy, which he is so in love with and introducing to all the neighbors. The puppy shyly moves into the man's chest and cuddles him when the introduction is being made. This behavior is past being cute...it's over-the-top-cute!

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A Day At The Beach

I usually reserve Sunday for a Day At The Beach with my daughter. It's our Mother/Daughter gab fest and catch-up in person day. We often pack food and drinks for a picnic, and we laugh, eat, swim and people watch. This past Sunday was cold! We didn't even venture into the water as it looked murky which to us means 'shark-water'. Sand kept blowing into our mouth as we laughed, but we stuck it out for a least an hour shivering in our bikinis before packing it in. We looked for whales which often blow off this particular beach. Alas, no sightings. This year has been a bad year for whale sightings, as I might have mentioned before in this blog--if not, in another blog posting. We have conjectured where have all the whales gone? Sonar? Another island? Not hanging close to shore as they usually do? We don't know, but we do know it makes us very sad to see zero whales!

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Cruise Visitors

Some of the cruise ships (like this one photographed yesterday) anchor off of Lahaina (West Maui) rather than the main port of Kahului in the North. The cruise passengers are then ferried ashore by small boats. That's the island of Lanai in the background. The cruise ship line, Norweigan, regularly cruises the Hawaiian Islands, but other cruise ship lines pass through from time to time on their way around the world.

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Another Anchor

There are too few slips for boats on Maui, so many boats anchor close to shore in Lahaina near Mala Wharf.

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Plane Arriving On Maui

There is something about the angle of this plane arriving on Maui with the church that I like so I just left it as is.

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Flags Are Flying

Winds in the Hawaiian Islands are very strong, and this is why Hawaiian Wind Farms are ideal for the world's windiest habitable islands. Flags are located all over the Islands as decorations as well as displayed on flagpoles. I took a photo of these colorful flags flying full-on to illustrate a windy day of trade winds on Maui.

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Memories Are To Be Cherished

This is one of my many "assemblages" which I assemble for a period of time and then dis-assemble. The Buddha is a gift from a dear artist friend now living in Ecuador. The shell is a gift from a friend in Barcelona, and the crystals from yet another friend--they don't show up so great in this photo, but I like it anyway. This photo is from my archives and brings back fond memories of old friends and my creative self.

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Keeping It Interesting

You can see the influence from both Europe and Polynesia in the entrance to the Women's Restroom at Bridget & Bernard's Gardencafe in Kahului.

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A Famous Being

This large banyan street sits/lives in front of the entrance to the Maui Arts and Cultural Center, the main entertainment venue on Maui. It was moved here when the MACC was constructed from it's former home in Wailuku, and it is very, very old. Many people have carved their name and initials into its skin through the years. Most people pass it by without acknowledging it. I have spent lots of time communing with it and have taken many, many photos. Here's one more...

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Diving Into Blue

In case the photo isn't clear, those are legs and feet you're looking at as my partner has just dived into the beautiful blue ocean!

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Sacred Pools

The Seven Sacred Pools is the primo destination for many after they've journeyed by the winding road to Hana--this is where many people (tourists especially) take a COOL dip. According to some, these pools are incorrectly named and aren't especially sacred, but they are a refreshing joy for those who survive the notorious Road To Hana!

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Only One Wing Left

We had a terrific windstorm last week on Maui, and when I noticed my Bali Goddess mobile I have hanging in a tree, I saw she is now flying with ONLY ONE WING! At least, she didn't fly away entirely. The winds can blow really strong in these Islands, and I'm not even talking hurricanes--just strong, gusty winds.

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Shadows

I took this photo yesterday of the shadow of a palm tree on the side of the home--Jan. 1, 2007. What is lurking in the shadows this year ready to manifest in our dimension? We shall see as WE LIVE THE MYSTERY.

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Mural

This is part of a beautiful long wall mural painted on one of the walls of the Wailea Beach Villas, a luxury development in Wailea.

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