Haleiwa

My friend, Jackie, and I went to Haleiwa today. It's a quaint little town with shops and eateries and a lot of personality on the way to the North Shore. These are some random images I made as we walked along. No rhyme or reason to them, just whatever caught my attention.

Love these beach towels. Would have bought one last year, but I had just purchased one in NY and knew I didn't need another.

Enjoying Shave Ice.

This vase is really about 2.5-3 feet tall. It's the perspective that makes it look like it's sitting on a table.

I saw this old ice box inside a bakery.

This plaque is inside a gift shop window.

And this is my favorite one. Just love it!

Posted at 7:15 on Wed, Feb 18, 2009

Does anyone understand blogspot????

This underlining is happening of its own free will. I can't get rid of it. I suppose I could start another post and it would go away, but I'm too tired and it's too late...

So anyway, after taking my lens to the Ritz store, and finding out that the lens will have to make a trip to the mainland and visit the lens hospital (and probably won't get back to me for 3-4 weeks), I consoled myself by going to the beach and doing some people watching. These were taken with my trusty point and shoot.

Then I went back to the mall (go figure, no underlining here) to visit a bookstore and decided to walk around the mall a little. I came across a cute little gallery where they were selling framed photographs, paintings and sculptures. There was a little loft room and because no one was looking, I grabbed a shot of this photo for sale. Okay, it was nice, okay, it was probably 20x24 not counting the frame (I couldn't get far enough away to include the entire image and the frame without falling down the stairs and attracting attention I didn't really want to attract), but, for heaven's sake, the price tag said, $900. OMGosh!
Our MVP group must be doing something wrong! Or could it be where we live, hmmmm?

Posted at 8 pm on Wed., Feb. 11, 2009