I got to the restaurant 10 mins early, and my step-daughter was running 10 minutes late. But waiting is never a problem when you have a sketchbook in your bag.
chulita
Tag: urban sketching
jiggity jig
in transit
I’d planned to get a ride from San Francisco airport up into the Sierra Nevada mountains for our nature journal retreat, but Jack came down sick and couldn’t attend. So instead I caught a bus an hour and a half north of SFO to Petaluma, where another participant met me and drove the rest of the way. It all worked out in the end, but it was a long day.
Maui chickens
The Hawaiian islands are home to large populations of feral chooks. While chickens have existed in Hawaii for centuries, their dramatic population boom is quite recent. Hurricanes in 1982 and 1992 destroyed thousands of chicken coops, allowing domesticated birds to escape into the wild, where they interbred with ancient junglefowl (brought by the Polynesians 1000 years ago).
With warm weather, plentiful food, and few predators, chooks have established themselves as a happy feral population. On Maui, the only wild predator is the mongoose, who eats their eggs. This mammal doesn’t live on Kauaʻi, so the chickens are even more widespread on that island.
We spent the last two nights in a tent cabin at Camp Olowalu, where the plentiful roosters woke us at 4am. But at least there were no noisy humans there.
maui
at the himalayan restaurant
We went out to eat, a pretty rare event for us. It was our anniversary, and too hot to cook. This guy seemed to approve.
gazebo
fish fountain
Angry Chickz
It supposedly serves “Nashville Hot Chicken”. But there are no stores in Tennessee, which makes me wonder how Nashvillians would rate the fare.
trailhead water
