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Sugar Snap Peas

Today’s Feature: Snap Peas! Aloha and Mahalo! Life has been busy, such that I have not posted much recently. I will start a new feature today. And that is a journal of one vegetable or fruit each tim…

Fungal Bloom on Bag of Mulch

Hello friends! These pictures I took at a landscape store that was selling mulch. I was looking to buy a small quantity of it for my yard. These bags had cedar shreds inside. As you can see from the…

RIP Lonesome George, a Hawaiian Snail Gone Extinct

The flag poles were lowered when former president George Bush died and those flags just went back up, but now another George has died. Hawaii's endemic species developed in isolation for many, many y…

My Snapshots of the Mysterious Meteor Trail

This evening, I happened to be on the West Coast of the U.S. near my sister's house. A strange object was seen in the skies. It was all over social media already with many similar pictures and videos…

Life Becoming Wild

London's Natural History Museum has the winners of its Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. These pictures are incredible. Some do not even look real, such that they must be pictures of some im…

Why Corydoras Are My Favorite Aquarium Fish: Act 1

Aloha and Mahalo. I have been absent and now return to my posting. It is grateful for me to be on an island where I can strap on a snorkel to see colors of fish in the ocean nearby. The underwater en…

The Year of the Woman?

World Surf League Commits to Equal Pay for Female Surfers

This is a significant development for major sports. Like other sports surfing has been male-dominated. Most news concerns the top male surfers. The male contest winners earn more in prizes. And those…

Sidewalk Animals

Greetings, friends. Right now my island is being hit from Hurricane Lane. There are floods in the Hilo area now with constant downpouring over the last day and furious winds. I am not on the island,…

German Seniors Escape Nursing Home, Head to Heavy Metal Concert

Some senior citizens at a nursing home in Germany disappeared. They had escaped to travel by public bus for 25 miles. Near Hamburg, they attended the Wacken Open Air festival, which is a gathering of…