Pruned and repotted.
The turnout was quite good.
Andrea helped with the go-bag games.
I play the pet go-bag game with Laurel. Photo by Andrea.
My sister Christina worked in a clothing store in this location back in the 1970s.
With Adele. Photo by Andrea.
KHON TV was there interviewing Matt of Hawaiʻi Kai Strong.
Sunday morning Andrea photographed her pet avocado.
Pruning my buttonwood bonsai on Monday morning, August 4. Photo by Andrea.
Our maiapilo has been blooming every day for several days, now. Tuesday morning, August 5. Photo by Andrea.
Lili looks pleased.
Grayson, too.
I've been working on Gravity's Rainbow. A difficult read.
The trailer for my autobiography that Ashley Janet Wood (Facebook name) made for me.
At the break, I got this photo of Diamond Head in the distance.
The doors had been opened up so we could get good views of the interior without going in. This is the parlor.
Looking into the entryway.
The living room.
I walked around the house and got this photo of the heiau with a whaling rendering kettle.
It was quite nice sitting on the bench in the shade on the front porch during the break, so I made a short video.
I helped the novice on the right with some styling and potting.
John acted as president and mixed the potting mix.
Eddie helped a novice, too.
Monica potting a ficus.
I got off the freeway at Punchbowl Street to stop and visit Andrea.
Metaphotography by Andrea.
A guitarist-singer on the bandstand.
I posted this on Facebook two days earlier:
"Seventy-six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand."That's four rows of 19 trombones interleaved among five rows of 22 cornets. The odd number of trombones per row lets the slides go out without poking any cornetists in the back.
There, I figured it out.
The second maiapilo.
Andrea photographed me with my bougainvillea bonsai in the morning wearing my "vintage 1949" t-shirt. 76 years old.
Andrea sent my picture in to Island Life Live for their daily birthday song. Lena Girl remembered me from when I was on that show last year
promoting the Rainbow Bonsai Club annual show.
We went to Roy's for dinner where I got a birthday hat!
It was too hot and humid to sit outside, even in the shade, so we asked for a table inside the air conditioned space. We had a good view.
Waiting for mai tais and pupu.
I caught Andrea with a Mona Lisa smile.
Our efficient waiter took this one after bringing the cocktails.
We tore into the cheese and ahi pupu before I remembered to photograph the food.
Andrea had the beef and I had the ciopino.
Stuffed. Dessert course coming.
Our birthday desserts.
Lots of clouds make a nice sunset.
The keiki twins loved the kōnane table.
We took the boards to Kilohans's house and installed them in the bed to support the new matress.
Our monroidendron is blooming. Photo by Andrea on Wednesday afternoon.
The post office is in the King Kalākaua Building. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
My twenty-six thousand word novella is finsished, ready for publishing.
Guests enjoyed the cooling breeze outdoors. Photo by Andrea.
Andrea cooked all day and people brought lots of good things to eat.
I had set up seating for 28 with some backup chairs and it proved sufficient.
The tables under the lychee tree. Photo by Andrea.
Libby brought Betty who is 96 now.
People enjoyed food, drink, and conversation.
Four people from my Writers Circle came. Yi, Helen, and Janet had to leave early before my book excerpts.
People came into the house for my book reading. Photo by Andrea.
Getting ready.
Reading from my book. Photo by Andrea.
The keiki gathered at the education center.
Photo by MHC.
Andrea worked the canoe garden hana project. Photo from MHC.
Photo by MHC.
I was at the heiau station for six rotations. Photo from MHC.
Photo by MHC.
On Wednesday, I pruned and repotted my shower tree (Cassia fistula) bonsai. Before.
Kilohana gave Andrea these pink roses.
After.
After pruning and wiring.
Friday afternoon at the Mission Houses, photo by Andrea in the Chamberlain House.
I arrived early for the tour and there was a class on plants underway in the education center.
The group on the front lawn at Mānoa Heritage Center.
Sunday morning clouds in the east on our morning walk photographed by Andrea.
This bonsai kiawe has been in this oversized pot for a couple of years.
Pruned and potted in a smaller plastic bonsai training pot.
Later Sunday Andrea addressed mailers to Krish and Roger Taylor.
Book going to Roger in Texas.
Practicing "My Yellow Ginger Lei" at MHC.
It was Joan's birthday (72) and Andrea gave her one of the lei she made.
Ed came and sang Japanese songs to CD player backing music.
Ed singing in Japanese.
The halau presented yarn lei (made by Andrea) to the four birthday residents this month.
"My Yellow Ginger Lei."
Hula.
Palani Vaughn singing about a small island that vanished off the shore of the Big Island after a tsunami.
Approaching the recreation center. The meeting room is on the right.
Secretary, president, and treasurer.
It was getting dark when we left for home.
Tuesday morning I photographed the eight bonsai I will be donating to HBA for sale at the bonsai exhibit at the Okinawan Festival this coming weekend.
I was in my bed, awake at 4:30 AM when I saw firelight coming in my bedroom window. I woke Andrea and said "Fire. Call 911." Then I pulled on shorts and went out the kitchen door and around back to turn on the garden hose and pull it into position to squirt the fire at the back of the Omori house. I wetted the trees between our houses and also our root. The rear bedroom window jalousies shattered and I began to play the stream into the window but it wasn't doing any good so I resumed wetting the trees and our roof. By that time Andrea turned on the side yard hose and joined in the wetting action. When I heard sirens coming, it was too hot to stand there in range with the hose so I pulled the hose back and turned off the water.
A subsequent video.
Firefighters.
Firefighters.
Devastation.
Two pumper engines.
Four more fire engines.
Total loss next door, our house was saved.
Photo op. Photo by Andrea.
Pointing at the bonsai exhibit on a map of the festival. Photo by Andrea.
We arrived early, shortly after noon. The space had been set up for us as usual.
Andrea, Sandy, and I put up the HBA banner. Photo by Andrea.
I set up my display bonsai, an upright escambron with mountain viewing stone.
Sandy's Chinese banyan on rock. She borrowed my red ti as an accent plant.
Metaphotography. Photo by Andrea.
George's two exceptional shohin displays.
Warren's penjing juniper on the left.
Daniel's exhilerating flying banyan bonsai.
Alvin's tremendous neagari black pine.
Beautiful driftwood style.
Black pine shakan.
Sandy's three tree banyan on rock.
Willow leaf ficus formal upright.
Podocarpus and banyan.
My escambron and Joshua's yellow flower tree.
Alvin turned my tree to a different front. I prefer the former (see setup), but I left it.
The sales area is ready to go.
Our first Okinawan VIP.
View from the back.
The plant sale in the second hall. Bon dance pole raising ceremony in the background.
FIRST robics teams at their booth with keiki.
Bon dance pole raising. The men took turns bouncing it up and down in the air with their strong legs.
Entering procession.
Big video screen at the "country store" in the other hall where our bonsai display was.
Maggie, a radio personality with KZOO in Honolulu came to our display and invited me to be interviewed on-air. It was fun.
She would ask a question in English, I would answer while she took notes, then she would translate my answer into Japanese, and repeat.
Adele's potlucks are always fun events.
Lots of people like to sit on the low wall.
Lots of tables and chairs, too.
Lawrence, VP of HBA and president of Pacific Bonsai Club, talked to a friend.
Inside the "cultural village."
A crafts class in the cultural village.
Okinawan dance.
Hula to okinawan music.
Hula and okinawan dance to Hawaiian music.
At the entrance to the cultural village.
Email Richard dot J dot Wagner at gmail dot com