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Sometimes the trail got really close to the edge... At the new lava... This was taken with my point and shoot.

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Thanks for the compliments you guys! This was near the beginning... where there was red lava brought in for a trail. Palm victim. The new lava was very shiny and iridescent.

Cindy is in the right hand corner.... hmmm... maybe she was trying to lose me... Looking towards Pu'u 'O 'o again ... I think this flow is from 1983. (I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong! )

Hear, hear. I'm with Bill (BS Man about Palms) & Meg (PalmatierMeg)!

Hear, hear.

Any palm that doesn't grow............. Regards Andy.

Let me be the first to say I don't like DEAD palms...

CURSE THIS THREAD!!!

If you don't mind me asking, what is the HDR program?

Yup it is HDR. There are a lot of steps to it. I use an HDR program and then Photoshop. I've been actually skipping a few steps because I'm not going to make a big huge poster out of them and I'm still experimenting (and I don't have the other program needed yet). When I come across a total awesome shot I'll put in the effort.

Hey Angela, is that HDR or whatever? Is that difficult to do with Photoshop? I was reading about HDR the other day, and what I was reading was in layman's terms, so I'm sure its more complicated than the explanations I read.

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Today's sunset..

More from today... looking towards the volcano Hualalai!.

Thanks for all the nice feedback!!

A couple more..

One more for now...

More experiments!

Here's more... trying to make something out of nothing... the sky was not cooperating with me.

One more for now.... more to come!

Angela - Love the surreal look you are getting with this technique! Especially the Honaunau and sunset shots, outstanding! Your Hawaiian Kitty pix are irresistible. I remember only Tiki from last October, but you have a whole tribe now!

Shot of the driveway looking towards the road. And some Hawaiian graffiti...

Don't cry Dave... just sign up for the tour!!!

Tis and palms living happily together in the Hawaiian forest!!

More experiments with multiple exposures!

Beast of burden... the Gator!!

= speechless at the beauty of it all...

AWWWW!!! HOW CUTE!!! What a beautiful cat!!!

This is Bruiser... you can guess how he got the name... someone dumped him and I can almost understand why.

This is our first kitty "Tiki" He showed up when he was about 5-6 mos. old. It took about 6 mos. before he let me finally pet him. Now he's super sweet.

Kami punya tiga kucing juga! Here are some regular snap shots of our kitties.... no artsie stuff. Do you have pictures of your cats? You should post some! This is Smudge our newest cat that showed up. He was totally feral but I am a cat whisperer. I guess he is a blue point siamese. Sorry for the low quality... I forgot where the originals are!

Smudge and Tiki.

It's Smudge!

And now for some random shots of kitties!!!

I'm re-uploading some of these because the quality was bad on the last ones.

JEFF HELLOO!!! You know we have room for you guys over here... that's why we invited you.

We get between 50-70 inches but it varies a lot. Makasih!

Thanks everyone for your nice comments!!

Thanks Bren! I guess that "anthurium" is a philodendron species from Central America.

Beautiful & stunning stills... Thanks & Love, kris

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Around the hood...

More from the garden...

Around the garden...

Most of my palms are so tall that they never get water in the crown unless it's from rain in the Winter. One of my problems is having it rain and then freeze at night. If there is standing water in the crown, the ice can make a ring around the emerging spear. I've had this happen even with Butias, but it's kind of rare. If I use a sprinkler in the summer where water gets in the crown, I do it early in the morning and then the afternoon heat evaporates all the water. I'm particularly carefull that the Parajubaeas dry out before nightfall. I had a Brahea armata over 35 years old and with several feet of woody trunk develop a crown problem this last spring. I did nothing and it sat for awhile, and then grew some very deformed, twisted fronds. It's grown out of it and the new fronds are normal size. I have never had this happen before. I hardly have to water in the winter time, because after a couple of rains the soil remains moist until the warmth of spring. Dick

I kinda water everything while being aware of where the species comes from and season. I soak all of my Caryotas since it originates from South East tropical Asia - a wet place with lots of rainfall. My wife once pointed out something she read that water drops in the noon-time cause the suns light to magnify on the leaf /frond which causes damage...so if I soak the whole plant, I do it in the morning or night. Here in California everything drys up quick. In winter I water very little.

I only water my yard if it has not rained in over two or three weeks. I don't usually water when we are having cold spells - temps in the 30's (0 to 4ºC). I don't avoid watering the crown during any time of the year.