April 4, 2008 March Was Nice But you did not miss anything here. I did not really take time off during March. I just did no updates here on the old website. The interesting news is that the same four people looked here anyway. I had the same number of clicks as when I did updates. I still think two of those clicks are from me on different computers. My wife and my son do not look here...ever. That means I have one cousin and one niece looking in to see if I had anything to report. Nope. Not a thing. Thanks for clicking anyway. |
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| April 17, 2008 Eighteen Hours Until Sunset Travel to the west from Dallas, Texas at a fast enough speed, for a long enough time and you will lengthen the amount of daylight that you get to witness that day by a considerable margin. Early in the morning, the sun chases you. By noon, you are chasing the sun. It can be a joyous pursuit. But you have to allow it to be that. This time we stopped off in Los Angeles, California for a couple of hours. It is sometimes simply a method for saving airfare money. You do what you have to do, eh? For the purposes here, all the times are on Central Daylight Time. 7:04 a.m., Dallas, Texas dawn I do love looking out an airplane window. Not only is it a physical miracle that we can go airborne, but the perspectives are so very different than everyday life on the ground. By and large, airplane windows are extra double thick and not all that clean. Any resulting photographs through that window are distorted somewhat. The "quality" of a photograph through such a window is suspect. Strange halos of color and light appear for no reason. Colors are a little off, focus is impossible, aperture openings are easily misjudged and exposure times are absurdly different than if shot free from window imposition. I like it very much. 10:04 a.m., near Lake Havasu, Arizona The desert is one of the few places on Earth that gets more beautiful as you get closer to it. From 36,000 feet above, it looks like we are flying over Mars. 10:40 a.m., near Joshua Tree National Park, Palm Desert, California and Big Bear, California The change from desert to mountains to valleys takes mere minutes when moving at about 500 mph. 11:09 a.m., LAX - Los Angeles International Airport, California There is a clearly purposeful energy in an international airport like this one. I took some heavy-handed processing liberties with this photograph in a concourse. I rather like it. 11:40 p.m., offshore Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii In the half-light of the evenings here, magic happens. There is simply no other explanation. As hard as it will be for you to believe, both our flights were on time today. Within thirty minutes it will be dark again, but I can now hear the ocean. It was a good day. |
| April 21, 2008 Hula Hula (IPA: /ˈhuːlə/) is a dance form accompanied by chant or song. It was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there. The chant or song is called a mele. The hula dramatizes or comments on the mele. There are many styles of hula. They are commonly divided into two broad categories: Ancient hula, as performed before Western encounters with Hawaiʻi, is called kahiko. It is accompanied by chant and traditional instruments. Hula as it evolved under Western influence, in the 19th and 20th centuries, is called ʻauana. It is accompanied by song and Western-influenced musical instruments such as the guitar, the ʻukulele, and the double bass. Terminology for two main additional categories is beginning to enter the hula lexicon: "Monarchy" includes many hula which were composed and choreographed during the 19th century. During that time the influx of Western culture created significant changes in the formal Hawaiian arts, including hula. "Ai Kahiko", meaning "in the ancient style" are those hula written in the 20th and 21st centuries that follow the stylistic protocols of the ancient hula kahiko. Hula is performed at luau (Hawaiian parties) and celebrations. Wikipedia: HULA |
| April 30, 2008 Surf and Turf Maui Scholastic (High School) Surf Championships Hookipa Beach, Maui USS Arizona Memorial Pearl Harbor Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii from the deck of the USS Missouri |
