There were rain showers and sun breaks most of today and then it cleared off in the afternoon and turned into a cool, breezy afternoon. I just liked the way the late afternoon sunlight looked on the vegetation in the afternoon so I took this photo with my cell phone.

Saffron finches on the red cinder driveway.

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Absolutely outrageous!! 😡

well this is an interesting point.

It's a bit more complicated than that but it is in consideration that Hawaii had a constitutional monarchy that was overthrown by American businessmen with the help of the US Secretary of State without approval of the sitting US president. And there are longstanding legal issues unresolved remaining

View of 1500 ft tall lava fountains from the top of na pali at Uēkahuna.

Video of lava fountains and lava flow in Kaluapele as seen from the top of na pali at Uēkahuna.

View of the lava fountains and lava flow from Kūkamāhuākea.

View of the lava flow and lava fountains at around 3 am looking over na pali (the cliffs) at Uēkahuna. Na pali on the opposite side of the caldera (first photo) are about 400 feet high for scale. The lava fountains tonight reached up to 1500 feet in height.

Some views from around the property, the rainforest and the fire in the sky from the volcanic eruption.

Two more photos of the newly emerging frond of the flame thrower palm. The various red shades will change to green in about ten days.

Here's a video of the volcanic eruption that just started as viewed from our lanai. If you turn up the volume, you can hear the night sounds of the rainforest.

The volcanic eruption is just getting underway as can be seen by this sequence of photos as viewed from our lanai. These photos were taken between 8:20 and 8:35 pm local time.

The first indication that space colonization is fiction is that they’re talking about turning an uninhabitable desert planet into a thriving biosphere while we’re turning our own thriving biosphere into an uninhabitable desert planet.

Another flame thrower palm opening! I love the red color when they are opening. This will fade to green after 10 days to 2 weeks.

Some random views of the rainforest garden around the back of our short term rental house.

Another warm sunny breezy day.

It was a warm partly cloudy day today in the Pacific with a light Trade Winds breeze and 23.9 C (75 F) in the shade. Now the evening marine clouds are rolling in.

More palms along the driveway. The last photo is the view from the upstairs lanai.

Some of the palms at the edge of the rainforest near the driveway.

I wish that they would stop calling it "mainstream" media. It is fascist leaning fringe just like the right wing media. They all supported this regime and still do with their BS reporting. I don't trust anything they say so I turned all of them off.