April 2011 Photos

Left side.

Right front quarter.

At the Army Corps of Engineers plaque at the entrance to the garden and reservoir.

Mountains.

Andrea can never resist taking pictures of ducks.

Ducks.

Plaques tell the story.

A nice view of the lake.

Flame tree.

I've always liked the portrait behind the tiki bar.

A large tiki is just outside the lanai.

Mark, Joan, Suzi, and Andrea at the local "slop house" as Suzi calls it.

I found this old framed newspaper clipping in the house so I took a picture. Click the image
for the high resolution version so you can read it.

Andrea had to have a picture of the cup.

This cross stitch store is across the street.

Looking back at Lex Brodie's on the way to pick up the rental car in Kakaako.

We passed the park in Kakaako.

Once again I took a picture of a sunset. Normally I don't photograph clouds or sunsets, but
sometimes I make exceptions.

Waikiki sunsets always seem dramatic.

The musicians played our request for "Opihi Man."

The sun kept on setting.

Walking back to the car we stopped at the free hula show at Kuhio Beach.

We got the very last dance.

On the way out I got this picture of Andrea with a tiki.

Then andrea got me with the tiki.

The International Market Place was there when I was first in Hawaii in 1967.

These are two of the four Eugene Savage paintings from 1938 at the Royal Hawaiian. Two others exist
somewhere else.

Island Feast. Click the image for the full resolution version.

Pomp and Circumstance. Click the image for the full resolution version.

Festival of the Sea. Click the image for the full resolution version.

Aloha, the Universal Word. Click the image for the full resolution version.

Andrea was taking photos on her cell phone.

This sheet music is in the men's restroom downstairs at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

This sheet music is also in the men's restroom downstairs at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

A view of the lobby of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

This old map is in the Royal Hawaiin Hotel elevator lobby.

On the way back we stopped upstairs at Tiki's Bar and Grill and photographed some of their large wooden tikis.

Canoe paddlers.

The music duo.

Suzi had lunch waiting for us when we arrived at one PM. We ate some great Chineese food
from Pah Ke's Restaurant. Leland and Suzy enjoy.

Andrea and Suzi strip bark from the hao tree stump.

I level off a stub to support a slab for a future food tray.

Suzi checks out the first wood slab seat installed.

Leland works with the chain saw to make a place for the second seat while Andrea and I photograph.

I pry the pieces off after Leland used his chain saw.

We started at high tide and it was low tide by time we were done for the day.

Leland uses a die grinder to make a cup holder.

I stand back and watch as Leland continues the cuts.

Suzi appraises the result of fitting the slab to the stump.

Leland gave me this program from his 2008 show at the Academy of Art.

One of Leland's sculptures at his house.

Leland screws the slabs in with stainless steel screws while I hold them down.

Pau hana.

This is the famous woman surfboard of Horan's.

Leland and Suzi fit check the two seats.

Later that evening Horan held forth.

Horan and Leland enjoying the moment.

Andrea at the courtyard fish pond.

Pointing mode.

Andrea and Elsie.

Mary Piette, Lenore, and Andrea.

Lenore and Estelle.

Elsie brought a camera of her own.

The invited speakers of the day were the former University President, David McClain and his wife Cheryl,
who presented a slide show about their life after the Presidency including a safari to Africa in the
vicinity of Botswana.

Jim Peerson, Chuck Joyner, and Dawn Peerson work on bonsai. I oiled and sharpened my tools.

Jim Meyers gets a tree ready for the Pearl Ridge show next week.

Chuck, Jim, and Dawn hard at work.

Steve worked on a procumbens nana juniper.

I watch them work.

Jim Peerson and I wait for lunch provided by our gracious host.

Using the small pick ax to dig up tree roots.

Andrea the industrious.

The happy worker could be a poster child for communist propaganda.

Work, work, work, to paraphrase Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles.

Beautiful Andrea.

After our swim at Sans Souci we barbecued beef ribs on the hibachi.

Several bonsai on a bench.

Surfers and a canoe waiting for waves.

We walked through the Waikiki Shore Apartments building next to Fort Derussy and into the front of the Reef Hotel.

There are lots of paintings inside.

The old days in Hawaii.

A group of six behind the desks in the lobby. Click the image for the high resolution image.

Another group of six behind the desks in the lobby. Click the image for the high resolution image.

A third group of six behind the desks in the lobby. Click the image for the high resolution image.

This surfing canoe is on diplay in the Reef lobby.

We stopped by the Zoo Fence and picked up this painting from Paul Forney.

Here's the painting after we got it home. Click the image for the high resolution version.

Karl took the camera and let Andrea step into the picture.

We stop at a Koa tree and look for seed pods on the ground.

We discover a wall assembled from stones.

Detail of the wall. It seems to form an enclosure, with the wall on this side retaining soil. About
45 minutes up the trail.

Kekoa on the way back.

Karl and I bring up the rear.

We stop again at a koa tree and get some seeds that I later planted in a pot.

The food and service were great.

Andrea enjoyed herself.

A very nice banyan on rock by the honored sensei.

Photographer captures photographer.

One of my favorites, an underpotted banyan.

Jim Peerson and his wife Dawn were there.

Lenore and I share a laugh with Jim.

Tim Lieu demonstrates with a Chinese banyan clump.

Nearly done with the demo, the final wires are applied.

At the entrance to the sailing club where we stopped for lunch on the way home. This completes an
item on our to do list.

Inside the La Marinara Sailing Club.

I think Andrea was comparing my profile to one of the many tikis.

Later, at my office. Used cement bonsai pots on the table. Plastic yellow buckets of guava seedlings on the ground.