Pic of the Week - May 31, 2010

We'll call this the Good Karma Chameleon. Because today, several good things happened (and I'd like to believe it's a result of Good Karma), and then this little beauty appeared in our garden. I've been wanting to take photos of a Chameleon for months now and haven't been able to find one.

So we'll just ignore the fact that I was sitting in the middle of a spiders nest while snapping photos of this lovely creature and that I was COVERED in baby spiders by the time I was done snapping and realized. It's amazing how fast an 8 month pregnant woman can move when the need calls...

Pic of the Week - May 25, 2010

So this weeks pic of the week is a flower, whose name escapes me. If anyone can remind me what these are called, I'd greatly appreciate it. This is another "side of the road" pitstop, which seems to be causing much distress to the locals.

I hope I never stop acting like a tourist. I almost always have my camera on, I randomly pull to the side of the road without warning and wave at the pissed off locals as they pass me by. I can see them mouthing "f-ing tourist", which I can understand, because my behavior is very tourist-esque, and I've got a serious lack-of-tan going on at the moment.

But I did not move to Maui so that I could become engrained in road rage and take my environment for granted. I came to Maui, because its ridiculously beautiful and the perfect place to raise my family. So to you locals, who seem to have lost your way a bit, take some advice from the pasty white psuedo tourist and instead of flicking me off, appreciate that I still look around and say "Damn I'm lucky to live here".

Pic of the Week - May 13, 2010

This weeks pic is from my marvelous drive home. Each day, I can choose to take the lower highway, or the upper highway. I tend to take whichever has the green light when I'm there, but from April to the end of May, whether the light is red or green, I opt for the upper highway. This is because the Jacarandas, my favorite trees that I first saw in South Africa 11 years ago, are in full bloom. They literally litter this road. Every turn is bursting with more purple.

Proof, that it definitely pays to "take the high road" every now and then...