Today’s Feature: Snap Peas! Aloha and Mahalo! Life has been busy, such that I have not posted much recently. I will start a new feature today. And that is a journal of one vegetable or fruit each time

Hello friends! These pictures I took at a landscape store that was selling mulch. I was looking to buy a small quantity of it for my yard. These bags had cedar shreds inside. As you can see from the second

The flag poles were lowered when former president George Bush died and those flags just went back up, but now another George has died. Hawaii's endemic species developed in isolation for many, many years.

This evening, I happened to be on the West Coast of the U.S. near my sister's house. A strange object was seen in the skies. It was all over social media already with many similar pictures and videos.

London's Natural History Museum has the winners of its Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. These pictures are incredible. Some do not even look real, such that they must be pictures of some imaginary

Aloha and Mahalo. I have been absent and now return to my posting. It is grateful for me to be on an island where I can strap on a snorkel to see colors of fish in the ocean nearby. The underwater environment

This is a significant development for major sports. Like other sports surfing has been male-dominated. Most news concerns the top male surfers. The male contest winners earn more in prizes. And those are

Greetings, friends. Right now my island is being hit from Hurricane Lane. There are floods in the Hilo area now with constant downpouring over the last day and furious winds. I am not on the island, as

Some senior citizens at a nursing home in Germany disappeared. They had escaped to travel by public bus for 25 miles. Near Hamburg, they attended the Wacken Open Air festival, which is a gathering of heavy

There have been many interesting news items in recent weeks. I talk not of government or politics. These are stories related to science and nature. Often, it is far more interesting. Please see the links

Most citrus plants grow quite well in Hawaii. My first blog post was about Mandarin Oranges. In that blog, I also mentioned that there is an old, gnarled lime tree in my yard. Because it no longer produces

Recent study tells us that neckties can be harmful to men’s health. Publishing in the journal Neuroradiology, scientists found that wearing neckties can restrict blood flow to the brain. This is not good

My friend in Florida told me a story of last year he was walking on the shore in Miami Beach. A man with half a beard was following him and then began to chase him, shouting and trying to assault my friend.

Here on the island of Hawaii, the state's Big Island, the ground has been unstable for days now. My part of the island is not as bad as in Hilo and near the volcano, where they feel each of these tremors.

Scandals seemingly continue to grow in the United States government. One official having to answer numerous some such questions is Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. He

She torments me almost every morning. As I walk my dog along the sidewalk, I hear the sound of a child's scooter behind me. This is not the motorcycle type scooter, it is the skateboard one, yet with a

NCAA basketball fans, is your bracket ready? Mine is, but not for ball games. Since the best college stars started bolting for the NBA, such is not easy to choose which teams are best now. If you ask me

Every visitor to Hawaii should be required to spend several hours cleaning up the plastic that plagues our shorelines. That way, when they go back home to China (the source of most plastic), Japan, the