Usually we go to Pokai Bay to do some SUP (stand up paddling) in the morning, when the water is calm and there’s no wind.  But we went in the afternoon one day last week.  The mountain was beautiful at that time of day!

Violet finally got a job, at Tesoro.  Here she rests her head on the shoulder of a co-worker.  We applaud Violet!

We took our traditional end-of-Summer circle island drive last week.  It rained on the windward side, but it just made for a much nicer picture!

Every time I have business downtown I visit Pike Place Market, and I eat at a different place each time. This place was a tiny stall by the newstand called NY deli that also had knishes, bagels, and herring salad. They slice the meat for you as you watch and then you can sit at the edge of the market and watch the ferries go in and out.

A week ago the sky was particularly hazy here, and so when the sun set, it became a spectacular peachy-orange color. I tried to capture it in this pic from my cell phone. It looked like a dying sun from a far-off star system. I remember the sun looking like this in NJ in hot, humid August but never here.

We call her Perch.

And then this gray kitty showed up, but mostly just wants to sleep somewhere safe.  Don’t know if it’s a boy or girl, so we just call it Gray.

Random Chicken

It was a basal cell carcinoma, but they got it all out.  USE SUNSCREEN!!

Trade winds can be pretty gusty, and our beach umbrella was always tipping over and flying away.  So we bought a little beach tent.  You know how they always say you should set these things up once at home, so you know how to do it when you get to the beach?  Well, we didn’t.  We didn’t even look at the directions…at first…

Fortunately, we got to the beach early, and no one was there yet to see us fumble about.  In the end, we were successful!

It was a cross between a swap meet and an open market.  We got fresh bananas and a papaya, plus tank tops and a pair of earrings.  Violet especially liked the crepe with bananas, strawberries and nutella.

http://www.haleiwafarmersmarket.com/

Larger version is here

For the longest time the Dittrich house had displayed this poster from a 1970 National Geographic magazine showing on one side the stars of the Northern hemisphere, and on the other, the Southern. Since we lived in the mid-Atlantic states only the Northern hemisphere was shown. When I found the same poster in a thrift store decades later, I was fascinated by the Southern side which I had never seen, the stars including Canopus, Achernar, and Rigil Kent, with constellations like the goldfish and the chameleon. Here’s a part of it. It really is a gorgeous poster.