Wanted: Rainbow

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
Dolly Parton

Or, in this case, the blow hole.

Empty Road

“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back”
Chinese Proverb

Nobody to ask. But the commute looks good.

Glory

“Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?”
Charles de Lint

St. Joseph Catholic Church at Kaupo, Maui, Hawai’i was built in 1862 by the missionary Catholic priests who evangelized on Maui beginning in the mid 1800s.

An Occasion for Hope

“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.”
John Buchan 1875-1940

Is it possible to catch a rainbow? Hope so.

Hoe Business

“The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.”

Jim Hightower

Yes, that’s a John Deere tractor waiting patiently for a pigeon. The figure behind the tractor is actually a 18 foot tall painting by the artist John Cerney. He has a number of these larger than life size paintings planted in farms in and around Salinas, CA. They are meant to honor the hard working farm laborers who keep the whole farm economy going.

Harvest Time

“The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught,
a portion of the rainbow I have clutched”
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862

It’s time to gather the grapes in the vineyards of Northern California.
Rain is not wanted but a rainbow couldn’t hurt.

Sorry About That

“Rainbows apologize for angry skies.”
Sylvia Voirol

I have no idea who Sylvia Voirol is. She could be a poet or a philosopher or a scientist or a mass murderer. She seems to be known for this quote but I couldn’t find anything else about her. Anybody know?

Home

“There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster 1838-1912

Somewhere under the rainbow… this is my wife returning to our home in California.
I used this photo for my very first post on this blog. There’s more info over there about the home and the rainbow.

I think of home as largely a state of mind which is why this photo is not “real”. The home is real, the rainbow is real, my wife is real (really real). However, there were some telephone wires and cars in the driveway that I removed from reality. You can see the original photo by placing your cursor over the bottom part of the picture.

Click here if you want to see more of my street... telephone wires, cars, rainbow and all.

This weeks theme for Corner View is "home". There's someplace like home if you go to the blogs below. Thanks to Francesca for hosting and Jane for getting this whole thing started.

francesca, jane, theresa, ian, joyce, isabelle, kari, jgy, lise, otli, dorte, skywriting, tikjewit, sophie, daan, wander chow, kelleyn, sammi, anna,  kenza, rosamaría, victoria, mlle paradis, tzivia, tania, nadine, cate, cole, ibb, kasia, juniper, flowtops, valerie, robida

Communication

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973

Was it just me or did this lonely telephone pole have a brief moment of enlightenment?

This weeks theme for Corner View is "communication". There's more communication in the blogs below. Thanks to Flowtops for the theme and Francesca for hosting.

jane, theresa, ian, joyce, francesca, isabelle, kari, jgy, lise, otli, dorte, skywriting, tikjewit, sophie, daan, wander chow, kelleyn, sammi, anna,  kenza, rosamaría, victoria, mlle paradis, tzivia, tania, nadine, cate, cole, ibb, kasia, juniper, flowtops

Blue

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue,
and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true”
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Lyman Frank Baum 1856-1919

I saw this blue truck on the Big Island of Hawaii.
It was leaving Waimea but headed towards Oz.

This weeks theme for Corner View is "blue". For more blue bop on over to the blogs below. Thanks to Theresa for hosting.

jane, theresa, ian, joyce, francesca, isabelle, kari, jgy, lise, otli, dorte, skywriting, tikjewit, sophie, daan, wander chow, kelleyn, sammi, anna,  kenza, rosamaría, victoria, mlle paradis, tzivia, tania, nadine, cate, cole, ibb, kasia, juniper

Happy Hour

“Color possesses me. It will possess me always, I know it.
That is the meaning of this happy hour.”
Paul Klee 1879-1940

An enjoyable morning, looking west from Hawaii.

Risk/Reward

To walk across the street is a risk.
Mikhail Baryshnikov 1948-

And sometimes there is a reward. Two pots of gold at the end of my street.
To see the other end of the rainbow, step over here.

This week’s Corner View theme is “The end of your street”. Stroll down some other streets in the blogs below. For even more, drop by Jane at Spain Daily.

jane, ian, esti, joyce, kim, natsumi, trinsch, c.t., francesca, jennifer,  denise, isabelle, janis, kari, jgy, skymring,  lise,  crescent moon,  otli, dorte,  nicola, sophie,  aimee, inna, daan,  
helene, shokoofeh, jenna, grey-lemon, line, inner toddler, lucylaine, adrienne, emily, lynn, skywriting, eliane, the wanderer´s daughter, carole, anna,  kenza, sherry, conny, susan, l´atelier, elis, kamana, anne, rosamaría, marinik, elisabelle, victoria, malo, the yellow door paperie, tikjewit, juniper, ocean girl, emily,   andrea,  merel,
soisses,   mlle paradis,  cacahuete, wander chow, debra, linnea and emily, barbara, pienduzz, kelleyn, sammi, theresa, liza,     myrtille,

Sweet Home

"There’s no place like home."
The Wizard of OZ 1939

And this is mine. A fair amount of this blog will be about travel photography but this is where I start from and return to. This is the house that my father grew up in. It was built in 1907, a year after the great San Francisco earthquake. My grandparents had been living in San Francisco but they lost their home in the quake. They moved to Berkeley to build a new life.

This photo was taken this past July. It was just before sunset when I looked out my window at the beautiful warm sunlight and realized that it had begun to rain-rare for summer in the Bay Area. When you have sunlight plus rain there’s a pretty good chance you have a rainbow in the opposite direction of the sun. The sun was setting in the west and the window I was looking out of faces north so I went outside to go rainbow hunting. To the east, this is what I saw.