Yellow Hibiscus - Big Island's State Flower

Beautiful Yellow Hibiscus flower taken on my son's school campus. This is the island of Hawaii's State Flower (a.k.a the Big Island).

Cherry On Top @ Pearl City Hawaii

Ai-Yah-Yah!!! It's been a while since I've posted pics on here, and since my sister, Claudie will be leaving the islands soon, I figure I update and start posting on here more often, so that she can be mesmerized by the Island photos, and perhaps NOT want to leave! LOL... just kidding, I know she don't want to leave, but that's not optional in her position. =0}

Ok, so here are pics of this place called "Cherry On Top" newly opened up @ Pearl City, across the way from WalMart. It's just like YogurtLand, but we like it better, because it is cheaper, and MO' PARKING! I think it's cheaper because their spoons are regular plastic spoons n' not fancy-wancy like YL's.

Here are the pics I took.... used my Sony...





Thanks for peeking!!
Hugs n' Blessings,
Jen

Weather Pictures Around Oahu

On the way to drop off my son to school... oh, how beautiful the Lord lights up the Earth early in the day...

Coming home one day... doesn't that mountain ridge look like a sleeping giant? A prego one that is....

On a cloudy day, I believe this one was taken in Manoa, while waiting for my son to get off of school.....


Another day of clouds....


Another one taken of the early morning sun rise...

This one is of an early morning shot of Ko' Olina beach, while the waters were still n' probably cold!!!
That's it for now!

Aloha,
Jen

It's been awhile....

Hey there.... it's been a while, hasn't it?! I haven't posted on this blog since last year of June! Wooo Weeee.... well, thought I'd start posting some pics again, so that I can jump around between hobbies when I'm bored. LOL! I've also decided to post again, because my Brother in Christ, Jesse is over at Afghanistan and I thought I'd share some Hawaii photos on here so that he can always have a peek at Hawaii when he is home sick. If you'd like to read about his journey, please check out his blog at "Living In Harm's Way".

Before I share my pics, I wanted to share with ya that my Adobe Photoshop Element was deleted from my hard drive, and for the life of me, I can't seem to locate the disk itself. So I checked only for some photo imaging software (free - of course), and found this GIMP program. It pretty much allows me to do just about, if not all the same features that the APE program allowed me to do. So I'm going to be trying out some features on it to see how much capability it has. My main thing that I needed was able to put a watermark on my images, which you can see that it clearly does.

Anyways, here are the pics I have to share with you today..... the 1st two pics are of a plant that was in front of one of my neighbor's house. I love that about Hawaii, that people are able to plant pretty plants in their yards, and it just adds to the ambiance. I used the "cartoon" filter on the 2nd pic, experimenting with the GIMP program a little. It looks pretty cool....

3rd photo here is of a close up of one of the branches of a palm tree in another neighbor's yard... and the last pic I took a step back and took a pic of the entire tree (well, at least the top of it). These were all taken during my walk around my neighborhood.... it was a nice sunny day and no flash was needed.



May you have a beautiful weekend... and hopefully I'll see ya back here tomorrow. I think I'll post pics that I've taken during the week and share with you here on the weekends...

Much Blessings...
Hugs,
Jen

Good Kine Grindz.....

Food pics from my recent Glama Gurlz gathering....







Food pics from my recent Glama Gurlz gathering.... all pics were taken with my Sony.

Kapiolani Womens n' Children's Hospital

This is the hospital I was born at (along with many of my local stamping sisters), oh, and so was President Obama!!! I took this photo with my Sony Camera, while on the drive home from picking up my son from school. I enhanced the photo with Photo Shop Elements. I really love how the colors of the sky and the building looks. Does it look good on your end? Or is it just my computer? It is a little blurry since we were moving when the photo was taken - but not bad, ya?!

My 1st Batch of Photos

Here we go... here are some photos I took sometime the beginning of 2009.

State Capital of Hawaii, in downtown, Honolulu. This photo was taken from my Grandma's room at Queen's hospital (thru the window).


This is one of my favorite photos, of a red torch ginger, in my yard. The house is my neighbor's.


Ants on an Mountain Apple from my mom's garden....

Mountain Apples from my mom's garden. I like the clearness on this photo.


This photo was actually taken with my cell phone, so sorry it's not of great quality. But it was pretty neat to see the moon off to the side after the photo was taken, so I wanted to share it with all of you.


Ahhhh.... rainbow over Pearl City one gloomy morning. Just so happen that the person's house that is off to the right had a coconut tree, makes the scene "officially" a paradise shot.


Plumeria bunch in my mom's garden. This one was also taken with my cell phone. Pretty color, ain't it?!?

Clouds that look like cotton, taken with my cell phone camera, and while I was driving home in traffic.