Chicken? Her name is Nikki.

Nikki?

Facts about Araucana.
Araucana breed is from South America near northern Chile so she must be latin.
Not Nicole, must be Nikita(?). (Ok I dont know much spanish or latin).
Araucana lays pale green to blue eggs and the eggs are highly valued. This is why this chicken is quite popular.

Why Nikki? My wife asked me once. This is actually a funny question.
It is like asking why are you Kimberly?
No why, please.

Anyway, Nikki is a beautiful bird with her brown feathers.

I used to tie flies for flyfishing and used feather like these and make me think hmmm....
Nikki is not very friendly. She won't let you pet her, but she will come very close to you if you are digging dirt in a garden.

Night Blooming Jasmin

Through an Open Window, gentle breeze brings refreshing scent of Night Blooming Jasmin.
Sweet and delightful, I thought it was ginger flower at first.

I remember the photo I took during the day time that the flower is actually not open as if it is ashamed to lose its scent.

What's good tea to grow in Hawaii?

There are many different kinds of Tea we can grow on Big Island. What are good choices?
Taiwan-Oolong, yellow-mountain Green tea (Huang Shang mao feng), Dragon well Green Tea (long jin) are basic choices, but if we are to grow for our own industry, perhaps we should come up with our own unique variety and flavor.
Researchers are pushing their choices of Taiwan tea, because they can fetch the high price and they are high quality tea, but then aren't we still copying Taiwan and China? What's our original?
Perhaps we have to experiment new processing techiniques that makes different kinds of tea....

Got Chicks!

Kimberly does not know yet. I got baby Chickens too.
10 of them! This will start a big family.

There are three kinds and they all lay brown eggs.
They do not have names yet, but so cute....

Windy Today, but the prayer flag looks good in the wind.

When Kimberly and I visited Tibetan Tribal region in Sechuan, China, we bought some Tibetan prayer flags, a lot of them.
Finally, we arrived at our new home in Hawaii and searched all over our land to open the prayer flags. We cleared some guava trees that tends to overcrowd beautiful native Ohia trees.
Ohia trees are very artistic in its own nature. They extend their arms high and wide allowing themselves to express their existence on windy Hawaiian Coast. It is much like oak trees in California's dry hillside. I like them both.



It looks good. It would look all good anywhere.
It's a matter of how we want to percieve its prayer.

Ginger flowers in focus (Photography)

I took some photos of Ginger flowers behind my house.


more ginger photos.

Sorry! Am I disturbing you? But I want my garden space.

Today I was clearing the ginger patch to make more garden space as usual.
There are a lot of pleasant surprises as well as unpleasant.

I was taking some photos of the garden and decided to climb up an old platform (about 4 ft high) that felt sound enough, but when I was about to leap off the platform, it suddenly broke and I couldn't help falling in..., eating it!
But you know that the greatest appreciation is always after some hardship and to my surprise I was greeted by a Chameleon from our garden, living wild in our ginger patch under a beautiful guava tree.
I grabbed my camera and took some snapshots and although as much as I would have liked to take a shot with him, he was a little shy and wanted to hide deeper in the ginger patch.
In the end, we made a compromise. For me I get to keep the garden space, and for him he gets to keep the rest of the ginger patch (although it does not look enough space for him any more).

Another reason to like this place in Hawaii...deshita.