One Thousand Steps Beach, Santa Barbara

Thousand Steps Beach is a rock and sand beach below homes high on the bluff in  Santa Barbara. It requires a long hike down a stairway to get to the beach. The concrete stairs, originally constructed in 1923, seems like 1000 steps, but is actually closer to 150.

Slack Key Guitar Festival, Ewa by Gentry 2019

"Westside Style: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival

Dedicated to Bla Pahinui

Ewa Beach, Hoalauna Park

Just a few of the artists who performed

Northern Lights

Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis are results of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth's atmosphere and charged particles released from the sun's atmosphere.  Color variations are due to the type of gas particles that are colliding.  Beautiful!

Flowers inside and outside our house

Some of the flowers inside and outside our house.

Ascension Day was May 30

Ascension Day occurs on the 40th day after Easter.

St. Andrew's Priory was founded on Ascension Day 1867.

However, this year the celebration was held on May 16, 2019.

It was a very festive occasion.

Gabby Kanikapila 2019

Pictures taken by the Star Advertiser.

The Gabby Pahinui Waimanalo Kanikapila paid tribute to 

Gabby and Cyril Pahinui along with Skylark Rossetti.

Hawaiian Railway, Ewa Beach

Just a few pictures from our ride on the Ewa Train.

The Hawaiian Railway Society is a 3 ft narrow gauge heritage railroad. 

 It utilizes tracks of the defunct Oahu Railway and Land Company.

It was fun to ride the train, view the scenery along the way, and stop for ice cream.

Lots of old train cars to see and a very delightful toy train museum to enjoy.