KauaiEclectic

I'm giving the blog a little rest while I explore some different dimensions. I'll be back before long. As always, thanks for readin...

It’s possible to describe the colors — pearlescent, shell pink, baby blue — but not the full effect when they converge with misty clouds ato...

A friend who lives on the west side of the Hanalei Bridge — flood country — recently returned from a trip to Hilo, where she was struck by t...

The sky has been incredible lately. Yesterday afternoon it was a snakeskin pattern of white against deep blue, while this morning I awoke to...

The moon, building toward full today, got me up and out in the night, not because it was disturbing, but because it was so boldly beautifu...

Koko, as usual, was up first, and insistent that I join her, which this morning was a good thing, as I soon heard the garbage truck and reme...

Towers of gray cumulus clouds stood in stark contrast to the pink background sky, creating the appearance of a magical city on the horizon, ...

You can tell a lot about a bill simply by who shows up to testify. Which is why it was so revealing to see Randall Francisco, president o...

Going out with the dogs into the cloudy mist of very early morning, my first thought was, wow, it’s dark. The days are long only on the tail...

I woke to the calls of Newell’s shearwaters — as in more than one, what sounded, perhaps, even like several — and as I drifted back to sleep...

Venturing out in the darkness, into a night that was cool and filled with stars, I encountered brilliant Jupiter, giving off a glow as brigh...

It’s ironic that the county, which feeds people’s fears through press releases like the one published today on the results of “green harvest...

The moon, heading into its final quarter this week, was a cup into which Jupiter appeared poised to fall when Koko, Paele and I went out wal...

The moon snuggled up to Jupiter, directly overhead, and then the rain came, softly at first, then steadily, and it stayed long enough to giv...

It was all about color when I went walking with Koko and Paele this morning; indeed, the rosy glow soaking the world and seeping through the...

The sky was just starting to stain burnt orange around the edges when Koko, Paele and I went out walking, two hours after we’d first gotten ...

Walking with the dogs after a rain so big it muffled the clank, whine and grind of the garbage truck, skirting a just-made stream racing dow...

The first applications for vacation rentals (TVRs) on agricultural land are now starting to trickle in for Planning Commission approval, wit...

There’s a certain color that comes before dawn, a pale shade of lavender that edges on pink, and it affixes itself to the sky above the moun...

This morning’s arrival was marked by rain that shifted from misty to faint to steady, a gentle wind that caused the ironwoods to sigh and, l...