Jack Frost Morning

Jack Frost Morning

by | Dec 28, 2022 | Nature

On the cusp of winter solstice a  cold winter light filters through the mostly bare branches of our fruit trees, the golden glow of autumn has all but faded away. Out here on our deck just before sunrise everything is coated in a thin dusting of frost. I can slide...
Turtles and Tourists

Turtles and Tourists

by | Dec 19, 2022 | Nature

At a beach on Kauai’s south shore, turtles and tourists share the sand. The Hawaiian green sea turtle is a year round resident of the Hawaiian islands. These massive reptiles can be seen gracefully plying the waters all throughout the islands. The highlight of any...
Hanalei Soundscape

Hanalei Soundscape

by | Dec 16, 2022 | Nature

Outside our little garden cottage just off the beach in Hanalei on the island of Kauai the white-rumped shama greets the day with its happy song. Our bedroom slowly begins to fill with light, sunrise is still an hour or so away and the shama is already in fine voice...
Silence

Silence

by | Nov 2, 2022 | Meditations, Nature

Silence is such a beautiful thing. In the hyperdrive world that we live in there are so few opportunities to experience true silence, those opportunities are there but you’ve got to seek them out, silence does not usually come to you. Silence helps me think, allows me...
Autumn

Autumn

by | Oct 12, 2022 | Nature

I love autumn. The cool, clear nights, the cold, foggy mornings, the cloudless blue skies and Goldilocks temperatures during the day, the sunsets with those endless gradations of blue followed by a final blaze of orange-to-pink-to red. The low angle of the sun at this...
Lemon Cucumbers

Lemon Cucumbers

by | Oct 5, 2022 | Nature

In our garden four perfectly round lemon cucumbers sit among a tangle of vines, the largest is the size of a baseball, two of them look like ghostly billiard balls and the third is just downright tiny. The two largest ones have begun to take on streaks of pale yellow...