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I like being outside. I do not like cold weather, wind, clouds (except for a few small ones here and there,) and fog.
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Ocean Beach - Kellys Cove
San Francisco, CA
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| Elevation: | 80 ft |
| Temperatura: | 54.7 °F |
| Punto di rugiada: | 54.1 °F |
| Umidità: | 98% |
| Vento: | 17.0 mph from the ONO |
| Raffiche di vento: | 18.0 mph |
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Updated: 06:44 AM PDT del 19 Giugno 2013
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Paris-centre, Paris
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| Elevation: | 97 ft |
| Temperatura: | 81.8 °F |
| Punto di rugiada: | 66.1 °F |
| Umidità: | 59% |
| Vento: | 8.0 mph from the ENE |
| Raffiche di vento: | 14.0 mph |
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Updated: 03:52 PM CEST del 19 Giugno 2013
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PS Park San Rafael @ Naked Palms
Palm Springs, CA
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| Elevation: | 581 ft |
| Temperatura: | 78.4 °F |
| Punto di rugiada: | 39.7 °F |
| Umidità: | 25% |
| Vento: | 6.8 mph from the OSO |
| Raffiche di vento: | - |
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Updated: 06:47 AM PDT del 19 Giugno 2013
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Santa Monica College Hill
Santa Monica, CA
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| Elevation: | 157 ft |
| Temperatura: | 60.3 °F |
| Punto di rugiada: | 56.1 °F |
| Umidità: | 86% |
| Vento: | Calma - senza vento |
| Raffiche di vento: | 0.0 mph |
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Updated: 06:51 AM PDT del 19 Giugno 2013
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Prenzlauer Berg
Berlin, Berlin
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| Elevation: | 260 ft |
| Temperatura: | 91.9 °F |
| Punto di rugiada: | 54.1 °F |
| Umidità: | 28% |
| Vento: | 10.7 mph from the ESE |
| Raffiche di vento: | 13.5 mph |
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Updated: 03:43 PM CEST del 19 Giugno 2013
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I am going to busy the next couple of days so I am leaving you my Christmas now.
All best wishes to you both for a very happy Christmas.
Happy Christmas, Sandi :)
Love the one with the flowery bank,and the one that looks like it has been done in HDR :)
Hi Mike, how are you? We were in San Francisco in October for a few days and then on to Yosemite. Wonderful trip. Love your bridge pictures. Hope all is well in paradise.
Oh, have a fantastic 2012.
Nice to see the new pics!
Do hope all is well. I see by your stats, you are living in Hawaii now? Well, lots has happened since the last time we chatted.
I've not been very active on the WU either. So, there may be some wondering if I'm still above the worms or not. ". )
Anyway.. just wanted to drop by and say, "HI!" since I saw your handle on the blog lists.
Take care 'n toss me a howdy if you get a chance.
See 'ya round WUblogs/photos
les O'fieldstream
{Also love the closer shot too, which I found in your Flickr PS. }
Hi Les, hope you are well:)
Yes, it has been awhile since we chatted. Has it been all the way back to when I was travelling in India? I remember you very graciously helping me get a photo on my blog of the silk worm "factory" on the road to Mysore. And yes, a lot of changes since then!
I am enjoying the wonderful year round outside life here in Hawaii; swimming and snorkeling in the beautiful blue sea, hiking and walking on these magnificent volcanic slopes.
Hope all is well with you, Les, and again, great to hear from you. And hope to see you more often here!
Mike
PS...and last but definitely not least...Bug is still here too!
Had no idea you had this entry up until I saw your name on the blog directory with a recent post. today, as a matter of fact.
I love that shot of the bridge in the rain with the sailboat.
Happy day before Valentines!
Happy Valentines to you too!
Hello Sandi! Thank you for the nod. Great to see Mike here and hear 'old chats' rattling in the memory lanes again. ". ) As Mike mentioned above, I have been watching the WINTER y'all have been getting. We'd have taken a bit of that snow off your hands, but it looks like the Winds of Winter were having nothing with sharing.
Seriously, not much humor in it at all. Very serious for Europe this winter. Can't believe the number of deaths attributed to this winter weather across Europe! Amazing! And it's not over yet.
Do take care Sandi. The Spring sunshine, fresh flowers and warmth will be again flowing across your fair countryside again soon.
Thank you again for the sweet nod. ". )
les O'fieldstream
Yes, Mike I remember your 'India Trip' well. And the silk-worm factory shots. Most cool story, too! We've spoken since then, but not much. Shortly after you got back, I developed full-blown MCS (multiple chemical sensitivity). The MCS not only made me very sick; chronic pain, rash, malaise and more; I also suffered from bouts w/ memory loss: whole months between '02-'07 are gone. I have many photos and journal entries to verify 'what I was doing'... but I don't remember a lick of most of it. ". \ Quite a time. I am better - but must live quite carefully. So, I'm pretty 'reclusive' compared to other folks. However, I do have my 'online friends and family'. They make ALL the difference in the world! LITERALLY.
My son and his family were in Maui last fall for three weeks and my wife and I were introduced (indoctrinate!) with a number of Hawaiian words. Actually, it did not take much, I've been an admirer of Hawaiian culture for some time. I find the Polynesian languages to be very expressive. But when I ran across the word: Kukakuka: I was absolutely - as my Aussie friends say, "Gobsmacked!" One word that describes me to a "T"! Kukakuka for those who may read this and don't know the meaning is, literally... 'Let's talk story.' Not shoot the bull. But literally,
'Come, friend, sit with me and tell me the story of your life and I will then tell you the story of my life, so we will not forget our individual stories, nor our collective stories, so that we may be able to tell them all to our friends and family; to keep our stories alive; so they will continue to live on in the collective community conscience.'
Yeah. All that in ONE WORD. Talk about your language of metaphor!!!
Anyway, I started writing a blog called Kukakuka'la (Let's Talk Story Today: I didn't want to cause or bring any confusion with a couple of kukakuka blogs being written). I have tied the Kukakuka'la blog in with a couple of other blogs I also write called, Memdecoueur and Akilologos. I also have a Kukakuka'la board on my BeyondDaRipples Pinterest.
In the last couple of months, I've outlined and started 5 books that I've toyed with over the last 15 years. Finally, I will put them down and publish them. Sure I'd love them to make me wildly rich (then I could move to Hawaii!!) but that's not likely. I just have this 'story' inside that's coming out. Whether it will be worth the read is yet to be seen. It is fun though.
So.. where in Hawaii do you live: what island? Are you selling your photography? Are you working at all there?
OK.. I'll stop. Torture over. ". ) Great to hear from you. I'll try to stop by and keep a more regular blog up on WU. I've said this for the last 3-5 years -but it's been quite hard. Being better now, maybe I'll be able to do so.
Take care. Look forward to hearing more about your new 'Hawaiian Life'.
Cheers!
les O'fielstream
Much warmer this morning - actually awoke to "positive" temperatures this morning. Yeah!
Had a great time down by the canal yesterday - it was frozen over! So any photos I wanted of moving barges....lol
Have a Happy Valentine's Day !!
Very sorry to hear about your illness, Les. Wow, that is quite a story of what you have been dealing with and glad that you are better. Yes, I can see how your virtual connections are your link to the world.
Yes, the Hawaiian language, which was on the verge of extinction at one point in the not too distant past has made quite a resurgence and entered the everyday lexicon of these islands. Many Hawaiian words are routinely used in everyday speech. The language as you pointed out is also very concise and expressive. I will try and start reading your blogs. Whether or not the books make you rich financially I am sure they are providing you with much mental income.
I live with my partner on the southern end of the Big Island aka Hawai'i Island on the dry side of the Ka'u district on what was once part of the vast Kahuku Ranch.
I am retired now. Like you, I have been dealing with health problems, which I would rather not go into detail about, but for most of my adult life. Fortunately, I have been able to keep my health situation stable in the last decade or so. Being away from the stresses of urban California life and the cooler climate there has been helpful but there have been new stresses to deal with after moving here. Not as K%u0101kou as I thought it might be for one thing. But the warm climate and ability to exercise more has been very helpful. I had wanted to move to Palm Springs and had taken a couple of years out from San Francisco to live there, mostly by myself. At that time, my partner was not able to work from home and we decided to buy a weekend house north of the Napa Valley in the coastal range. Very beautiful area. We had wonderful neighbors and the K%u0101kou of that part of the world is real. But the winters, for me, were just too darn long. We think we may eventually move to Palm Springs when we are ready to move again and when it is a lot easier to sell a house here (didn't see the housing market crash coming back in late 06 in our crystal ball.) My partner hates the heat in the desert (it literally makes him sick and would have to cocoon himself in air conditioning during the long hot season there.) But he likes the idea of being near Los Angeles (but not in the heart of it.) Anyway, just a plan, Stan, at this point. One day at a time and one foot in front of the other%u2026
Not selling any photos. Did get an offer once but it fell through. But I did use to get (and still do sometimes) some amazing emails from people thanking me for letting them see places that they were not otherwise going to be able to see because of health and/or financial reasons. So yes, I have received some mental income from them. I haven%u2019t really made much of an effort either to sell them. I am more or less ok financially so the karma income is fine.
Being outside a lot these days and still trying to take some photos I am more on the photo side here now but will try and pop onto the blog side more myself and hope to see you here too, Les.
Well, pau for now. My dog is pleading with me to go out for her walk! She is giving me that sad dog face and starting to moan. (I did take her out earlier to do her business but she expects a real walk now, :)
A hui hou kakou, Les
Glad to hear it is warming up there. I was beginning to conjure up images of the Little Ice Age and wondering if your next blog was going to be about ice skating on the Thames.
Goin wit a brudda makai wikiwiki, mo pau hana. Some links for you (if you haven't already seen them.)
'Āha'i 'Ōlelo Ola is also available online at HawaiianLanguage.tv.
There is still cattle ranching mauka of South Point and along the southeast slopes that did not get covered by the big 1868 lava flows from Mauna Loa and then subsequent flows in the early 20th century. (See Hawaii Apocalypse DVD or (See Hawaii Apocalypse on Amazon or iTunes
I think the big paniolo scene moved more toward the northern part of the island in Kohala at the huge Parker Ranch in Waimea.
Sorry I am not parsing this like you so nicely did, when I worked (and I still do here and there,) I worked as a personal assistant.
Your safe zone list is interesting if not disturbing that so much of the world is polluted. Not sure how you factored the vog (volcanic smog) for Maui. It can get bad at times, especially along the leeward side of the Big Island. Sometimes it gets blown by the Kona wind (southerlies) and goes up the island chain. And yes, I can see why you would avoid LA, might as well drop yourself into a toxic soup. Where we lived before in California, Lake County, has the cleanest air in CA (I know, that isn't saying much! :)) But it did sit up above the Bay area and Valley air, washed over by the prevailing winds from the west off the ocean. I knew of people moving there who had respiratory issues. Also, much more drier climate than the coast. There are virtually no industries in that county and the population is small enough that auto exhaust is not a problem. It is one of the few places in California that doesn't require smog tests, which may not be a good thing, I guess, if you are looking for really pristine air quality.
Members of North Coast tribes gather there to learn and keep alive Southern Pomo, which likely was spoken for thousands of years on the Santa Rosa Plain, along the lower Russian River and in Dry Creek Valley.
Today, a handful of fluent, or “first-language” speakers survive, none younger than 90."
Link for the entire story here
[les replies] ... Thanks Mike. This is quite interesting. It's heartening to see nearly lost cultures being rebuilt. They will never be 'as they were', but at least they won't go totally extinct. Color languages like that of the Pomo and Yani add a great deal to our understanding of how cultures deal with nature and it's constant struggle for equilibrium. The story of Ishi caught my attention many years ago as a youngster. I've studied a great deal about the lives, cultures and struggles of the native american tribes. It's a very sordid tale of prejudice and deceit. So much is lost in the fit of ignorance fueled hatred. (more on Ishi)
Also quite interesting about the Ranch and the south shore of big island Hawai'i. I was not aware that shore was so undeveloped. Very good to hear! I thought it was the NC that did the 'conserving' of the Ranch.
As to the volcano smog on Maui .. it's bad at times, but even though it contains some pretty caustic chemicals, it's not as harmful to the MCS sufferer as a typical walk through a grocery store! That's why the 'smog' condition on Maui is rarely discussed when looking for places to live 'chem-free'.
And - as to the level of pollution on earth - well, there is no place on earth that the top 5 toxins cannot be found; and there has yet to be found, human or animal blood that does not contain trace elements of them either.
The absolute insanity, in the way humans have thrown chemicals around, is unbelievable!
It's analogy would be if every one just took handfuls of M-80 explosives and tossed them all around. Then went around tossing 'fire sticks' among them. There will be explosions. There will be carnage. There will be injury. But no one seems to notice/care/understand .. ? Maybe all the above.
Either way, we continue on, tossing tons of chemicals into the air/on land/in the water - day-in and day-out. And it seems NO ONE ever considers .. "Where does all that stuff go any way?"
Honesty, I believe most think the chemicals just 'dissolve' and then they are gone. Never to bother us again. Sheeze Louise! How ignorant is that?
But of course, how many people take chemistry as a subject of serious study> And, then, how fewer of them even come close to understanding a portion of it?
So, it ends up being the ignorant following the lead of the greedy-who-gives-a-crap-crowd.
Is it any wonder we're in the mess we are? I think not. ". \
OK .. before I get too morose .. I'll stop. " . >
Take care... talk again... on the WUville Xpress.
I don%u2019t think enough is known about the long term effects of the vog yet. I know of some people with pre-existing respiratory issues, such as asthma and COPD, that have a problem with it.
The vog has certainly wreaked havoc with some of the agriculture here. Lettuces and protea are damaged by it. The ranchers complain they have a hard time keeping their barb wire fences from prematurely corroding. The brakes on our vehicles get pitted from it and have to be resurfaced.
Yes, I think a lot of people are either clueless, in denial and/or don%u2019t care. No wonder there are such high rates of cancer and other problems associated with chemical pollution. We are wallowing in the stuff.
Reminds me of Joni Mitchell songs again %u2026
Joni Mitchell never lies (lies, lies)
You never know what you've got till it's gone
From Janet Jackson%u2019s Got Til It%u2019s Gone
And Indian chiefs with their old beliefs know
The balance is undone-crazy ions-
From Joni Mitchell%u2019s song Sex Kills
Big bombs and barbed wire...
Can't you see
Our destiny?
We are making this Earth
Our funeral pyre!
From Joni Mitchell%u2019s song If I Had a Heart
[les replies]..Thought you might enjoy the story of Ishi. You ought to get the book - no doubt in the local library - and read it. It's fascinating and very sad at the same time.
As to the VOG. The off-gases would be very high in sulfur and sodium; both extremely caustic and toxic; especially when mixed with water and oxygen. This is what burns the plants and the lungs. The one thing that the vents of a volcano do NOT have that is the main source of problems for the MCS sufferer is petrohemicals. These are NOT found in the presence of volcanic activity. This is the reason most MCS'ers will not 'react' to the VOG.
Reaction - or as I have labeled it: FRAG (Freaking Real Assault Gage) (see YOSAKIME Yosaktionary ". ) - and Harm are not the same. In a FRAG, the MCS'er will suffer the rash, headache, fibromyalgia, numbness, palsy, itching, nausea ... and other 'delightful' reactions. Most of which are specific to the MCS'er. But, the damage breathing the toxic fumes of the VOG will hurt ANYONE! Regardless of their sensitivity. So I guess one could say, the MCS community is no more or no less sensitive to VOG than anyone else. ".\
I'll agree on the reminder of words by Joni Mitchell; a very insightful song writer! I was only familiar with the words from, 'If I Had A Heart'.
The song she did that always strikes me is the Big Yellow Taxi chorus line:
"We never know what we got until it's gone."
Those words ring so very loud and true. I've lived them too many times over to not know them to be true.
Trouble is.. by the time one notices.. it's too late. ". (
Take care... 'til we chat again. ": >
Wishing you "white rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits and a very happy month of March"
I know you wanted rain .. but honestly - enough is enough!
Take care
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