Hootenanny etc.

ALOHA

The Guava Sisters

( Note:  this is a resurrected version of a post  that should have appeared in November.  It’s incomplete, maybe incoherent, but includes some pictures I hope you find interesting  or inspiring.)

Dear Friends,

     After pausing awhile @ 12 posts & launching a 2nd weblog (called Hilo Shore Lines), I am pondering whether this should be another seasonal entry, an addition to the pumkin party page, or “just another wordpress post”… opting for the latter.  First, the leftover Halloween pictures:          

Kaia(Love this one of Kaia!)Brandon?Glowing-eyed Broxcen Some of the Kupuna who particated in the Hilo Hattie-inspired Hootenanny fundraiser for the Food Basket. (Wilma has been on the committee for 4 years.) And some of the grandchildren who came for the comic hula competition. Brianna & the twins Kaia & the twins Airi likes to fly

 

 

Cyril Pahinui

 (a little obsolete but here it is anyway)

Wilma

 Well, friends, it’s December already & I’m still working on a post from November…This one’s giving me some trouble so if it doesn’t work soon I’ll move on to another November post:  Kaia’s 4th Birthday Party.   Maybe I can squeeze in some news or otherwords between all the fun photos…

An attempt to insert Veteran’s Day parade video failed & this post slipped between the cracks due to technical difficulties, so it resurfaces as a special page.

Gabe is in one of the helicoptersVet's Day parade (local bikers) Here's to the New Year& the new erawe are enteringNo end of singing"All Love Surroung You"Together we can hearTHE WORLD AS ONE! Mauna Kea

Seventh Birthday for the Twins

Kele

On Thanksgiving Alika & Kelekolio Kuamoo turned seven!  They are the frequently-photographed twins of Bradley (Wilma’s youngest) & Jessica.

Their party was early this month on Coconut Island.

For more pictures of Moku Ola & other local scapes please visit my second weblog:

hiloshorelines.wordpress.com

Hopefully soon we’ll figure out how to link the 2 sites & let lots of people out there know how to find them…  Also in the works is a third log called “Tributaries”, dedicated primarilly to that river called Music & its many branches.

Now back to the celebration on the “Island of Life”:

Alika

               

Cake

                   

 

Jamal hitch-hiking off the tower?

Bradley throwing net

canoes across the bay

  

  

kayaks

passing

  

Gramma Wilma

        Aloha to All

from Hilo! 

Merry Christmas again & again!

Kaia’s 4th Birthday Party

Aloha Again from Hilo!

Thanksgiving slipped by & it’s coming on Christmas

This post will be a present for everyone

Featuring my beautiful grand-daughters Kaia & Airi

for whom I am eternally thankful–

Kaia

Airi

   

Gabe is great with kids.  Mikiko & I took pictures while he gave

surfing lessons..

                           

   

After water play came time for exploration & cake-cutting…

a perfect princess party!

  

     

                                                                      

Happy Birthday Kaia!

The 12th Post of Ron Holiday

 Forgive me

I have been the silent one

Too long far-gone

Please let me in your life again

I love you

Sunrise @ Lokoaka Lagoon, just down the road (8/16/08)

We are so blessed…

So lucky to live here with incredible beauty all around,

The peaceful pond & the mighty ocean,

The flowers, ferns & forests,

The black rock shores & the giant Mauna Kea

 

 

 

 

 

 

  “Who knows

where the time goes?…

Who knows how

my love grows!…”                                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, you well may ask, what are those odd pictures & what about that palace at the top?

The little ones are just old tires turned into art.  The palace is a jigsaw puzzle Wilma put together of a place I’ve been to many times– in the early ’60’s & the early ’70’s.  It is the Spanish Royal Palace in Madrid!

So why not close with a glimpse of the great Pyramids?  No, I have never seen them.  Another puzzle…

Inner Tube Fun

Lady in Red

First, Happy Birthday Wilma!                     

w/ hinahina

10/01/08

& many more to come!

Now to the new current subject:  fun with your inner tube–

How can you argue with practical transportation?

                                    

  

A Successful Launch

Summertime at Puhi Bay

Kids play in the water all day…

Brandon Resting

Brianna & Kiakahi taking a break too….

 

 

Back in the water again @ Leleiwi

& Broxcen previewing another post:

    “Fun w/ Uncle Bruce’s Kayak”  –

For closing here’s a close-up of Kiakahi… 

 

P>S>

We hope you all have as much fun with your

                     own inner tubes!

Aloha Again for Now & Always!

Fishing Again

First a brilliant rainbow from only yesterday

 

 

Anuenue @ Puainako

(near the pot of gold)

 

 

Then more fishing on the shore

Ending up with the catch of the day

& then some, & then some, & always more…

 

 

 

 

Tihani & Brandon

 

 

   “if I had a wish, if I had just one wish,

I’d wish for a fish…”

Tihani helping Grandma grill

Aloha folks, that’s all for now

(If all goes well

there’ll be more tomorrow)

Thank you for your ideas & comments…

PEACE & LOVE to All!

“& what a new beginning it’ll be!”

Coleus in the Garden

Wailoa Pond

Banana Leaves

Okay, this is Post # 9 of Ron’s Weblog.

It’s been a long & often-interrupted journey to get the journal this far.

Now the Scroll is Rolling & i don’t even know how to stop it. 

Let’s just slip into the “random favorites” category for a little while.

i find it amazing to be able to take a picture

& send it out the same day

around the world

amazing to improvise & publish it anyway

wonderful to cast away fears & move forward with this experiment

Rainbow in our Yard

 

The view of 3 palms (above, “Wailoa Pond”) is from my former workplace.  I say former because the bar/nightclub & the new restaurant got closed down by new owners… Long story for other ears. 

I was a janitor.  Now I’m a musician again! 

A half-dozen Japanese kids call me teacher.  Eleven grand children call me Papa.

Two granddaughters call me Grampa because they call Gabriel Papa.

We’re fortunate to be able to live here among the beauty of the Big Island!                                     

Wilma w/ halo

Cooking

 

Reed's Bay

 

Wilma smiling

Sunrise glows on Mauna Kea

 

& what a new beginning it’ll be!

 

For the Grandchildren

In Honor of Gabriel’s safe & sound return we offer a few pictures of his branch of the family.

Gabe on leave for Airi's 1st birthday

 

Kaia studying

      

Kaia & Airi @ home

great fun…

a little blurry

                          And here are two of the girl’s cousins, Tihani & Kaipo’i, a year apart but looking like twins…  

                                                                                And the other two girl cousins, Kiakahi & Brianna…  The other seven cousins are all boys, as you have seen in previous posts.  One of these days we’ll do a family groupings page so you can see who belongs to whom.

Anthuriums & ginger in our Garden of Wonder, and closing with another view of majestic Mauna Kea     

 

 

These were actually taken while driving up the road to Gabe & Mikiko

 

Check the “About Ron” page for a view right from our driveway.  I never get tired of taking pictures of the mountain, the grandchildren, or the Hilo shorelines.  Feel free to send comments or suggestions anytime, either through WordPress or directly to:  ronbroomell@gmail.com

ALOHA TO ALL

Hilo Shore Lines

sailing canoe & kayak in Hilo Bay

Broxcen & Jamal go spearfishing

My dear readers, brothers & sisters, cousins & friends, far families & near–

     What we have here is a random collection of local shoreline scenes, some w/ grandchildren…

     the usual mix.

moss on rocksour favorite inlet

     We see a lot of fishing around here.  Everyone eats from the

                                                                      ocean…

You Are A Source

Water from Rock…

(ocean feeds the sky & becomes a cloud)

Mountain flows to the Sea!

 

 

 

 ”As the sun goes down at the end of the day…”

Hilo from Queen Liliuokalani Gardens

 ”A heart filled with love illuminates all of the world!”

Lawakua and honu

The One Who

when you believe

your ideas are worth something

you have a worthy life–

& you strive to realize your ideas!

from Leleiwi

 BELIEVE

that Love is Lord of all–

 thought creates,  dreams sing the future         

the future

“for those who believe in love!”

(The Dream that Brings the Future)

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IF OR WHEN..>

if you believe

“all things work together for good”

then they do!

if you believe everyone is against you

then they are…

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IT”S ALL YOU! (“seeds of reality”)

when i believe my dreams are seeds of reality

then reality grows from my dreams                                                                                                                                  

rainbow over Hilo

Jamal looks to the ocean