The travelling bangle

[Silver Mom]

Taking another dip....

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Best I could do with no snow....

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DS with a friend....

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That's it for today! ALOHA!

So TOTALLY THRILLED that courage will be visited your lovely island longer so we can share her joy. I am so loving seeing all your posts. Courage has the rest of her life to see the rest of the world.... and she will. Please let her stay with you longer so we can enjoy her vacation too. Thank you JKP.

 

[Junkenpo]

I think it would be so awesome for Courage to travel for as long as TPF sticks around! In fact, if tPF ever sells out or breaks up, we'll have to find a tech savvy jadie to make a website for us to keep doing this. How awesome would it be to have a history of years and years (DECADES!) of this traveling bangle?

Here are more pics.

The Hawaii Visitors Bureau puts these signs up near historic sites and points of interest. I think it used to be someone who pointed, but that was accurately Hawaiian-ish, so it went arms crossed.

This is the Wailuku Public Library, it is the library nearest to my parents' house.

This library is from 1929 and is on the National Registry of Historic Places. I really like the tile on the stairs.

There's this on the left as you enter the library. When I was kid, it was a fountain. I swear I vaguely remember it. The security guard who noticed me taking a picture (you can see Courage on the lip of the bowl/shelf) said the water was removed because the homeless were starting to try to use it to bathe.

The tiled picture is of a Silversword plant in bloom. They are a native Hawaiian plant that only grows and blooms on Haleakala (the dormant volcano).

This is the inside of the library... this room used to be the kid's area. I remember there used to be a low stage inside. They remodeled a little bit, but the stairs in here have that same tile as the outside.

 

[Junkenpo]

Across the street from the library, some County government buildings. This day is a little over cast....

And, also on the same side of High Street as the library, here is a lovely Church steeple. It has a clock tower and I think that congregation is trying to raise money for renovations. I'll try to get a better picture this weekend. There are often feral chickens roaming in front of the church. lol

Pau for now, more tomorrow!

 

[Silver Mom]

I think it would be so awesome for Courage to travel for as long as TPF sticks around! In fact, if tPF ever sells out or breaks up, we'll have to find a tech savvy jadie to make a website for us to keep doing this. How awesome would it be to have a history of years and years (DECADES!) of this traveling bangle?

Here are more pics.

The Hawaii Visitors Bureau puts these signs up near historic sites and points of interest. I think it used to be someone who pointed, but that was accurately Hawaiian-ish, so it went arms crossed.

This is the Wailuku Public Library, it is the library nearest to my parents' house.

This library is from 1929 and is on the National Registry of Historic Places. I really like the tile on the stairs.

There's this on the left as you enter the library. When I was kid, it was a fountain. I swear I vaguely remember it. The security guard who noticed me taking a picture (you can see Courage on the lip of the bowl/shelf) said the water was removed because the homeless were starting to try to use it to bathe.

The tiled picture is of a Silversword plant in bloom. They are a native Hawaiian plant that only grows and blooms on Haleakala (the dormant volcano).

This is the inside of the library... this room used to be the kid's area. I remember there used to be a low stage inside. They remodeled a little bit, but the stairs in here have that same tile as the outside.

OH WOW JKP, my daughter and son in law hiked Haleakala and took a picture of the silversword. I was shocked that it grew so big and it sure was beautiful. I didn't know that it only grew there but now that I think of it, I have never seen it anywhere else. AWESOME!

 

[Silver Mom]

JKP, Here are pictures of Haleakala that my kid's friends took when they all hiked it.


The second picture is the summit of Haleakala. It was an AWESOME experience and one they will never forget. Courage is lucky to be on your beautiful island and even luckier that you are hosting her.

 

[RedPeony]

Incredible photos of Hawaii. Thank you to all.

 

[Junkenpo]

Silver Mom, those are gorgeous photos of the crater! I have never hiked down inside, but I'm hoping to do it maybe this summer. Or in a couple years when DS is old enough.

Small pictures today... here is a public park near an elementary school in wailuku. DS really likes playing here. There are these structures for the bigger kids, and a smaller, older area for the littler ones (not pictured).

If you turn around, you have this lovely view of the mountains.

And a modeling shot....Pale Lavender, Smoke and Granny Smith and Courage.

 

[Junkenpo]

At least the view is beautiful....

This is the view of Central Maui from an ICU room at the Maui Memorial hospital. I am grateful for all the advances in education, medicine, and technology that make it possible for keeping our loved ones going. My father has been in and out of the hospital nearly continuously since about October. The staff and care here have been awesome.

 

[Junkenpo]

Okay... it's been a bit since I posted to this... so here are some pics of the ONLY remaining sugar mill on Maui. When I was a kid, we had one in Lahaina and I remember the hills being green with sugar cane and when the cane was burned, the ashes would fall and we'd run around and catch them. "Hawaiian Snow" we'd call it, and laugh as got all dirty.

To my knowledge, I think there is only one other on Kauai.

 

[Junkenpo]

There used to be a village out this way to help accommodate the workers. There were stores and a swimming pool and a school. There is still a post office out this way.

You do have to pass some older roads and sugar cane fields to get to this next area.

The church is abandoned and boarded up.

The Dept of Ed still makes use of the Puunene School.

 

[Junkenpo]

But if you make it all the way back here and go around back behind the Puunene School, you will find the Maui Friends of the Library Used Bookstore, Puunene location. They have other stores on the island, but this one is my favorite.

They accept donation of new or pre-owned books, library discards, etc that are in sale-able condition and the monies raised through re-sale go back to benefiting the public libraries.

 

[Junkenpo]

Headed back out, when the cane is still growing, you can see the West Maui mountains.

And the other side of the Sugar Mill.

Pau for now, thanks for looking!

 

[Molly0]

Thanks for the fabulous tour JKP! Love the Maui friends of the library! The cane fields sound romantic. It so cold here tonight! -13 Celsius! Brrr! I would rather be with you in Maui!

 

[texasgirliegirl]

Oh Junkenpo, your beautiful photos have made me so homesick!! We have been vacationing in Maui every year with our children since before they were born and we has to skip last year.
We always pass the sugar mill on our way to Kaanapali. Such memories!!
Do you recall Chez Paul? Now it's a pie shop...
The traveling bangle is beautiful and you've done a great job reflecting her travels. She's building up lots of positive energy

 

[Junkenpo]

I remember Chez Paul... lol, never ate at it though. I've never stopped for pie at the new place, either. Maybe I should take Courage there. lol Leoda's has a good reputation for pies.