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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The first time I walked into my DMV after moving I was shocked to see an old cigarette machine! And then I looked more closely... #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMachinery

A tan and brown old cigarette dispenser with old pull knobs. Signs on the front say "License Plate Nuts & Bolts" and the price point is 50 cents.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The little lock leading from Crooked Lake to Crooked River in northern Michigan. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMachinery

A small lock backed by trees on the shore with grasses off to the side. The water reflects the flag pole and greens, whites, and orangeds of the buildings and gate.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My father and his sister, and 2 friends or cousins, on a John Deere tractor in west Texas. Probably about 1940 or 1941. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMachinery

A black and white photo with 3 young boys and a younger girl standing on aa John Deere tractor, looking at the photographer.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm loving all these #WeekMForMachinery photos! In northern Colorado, it's all about water rights and moving water...and hoping it comes down from the mountains in springtime and down from the sky otherwise. Lots of heartbreaking virga here. #AlphabetChallenge

Some blue and rusted water management equipment at Greeley No. 2 canal. In the background is farmland and a harvester type of equipment. Half of the photo is a blue sky with no clouds.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An old polaroid photo of my son (several decades ago) looking into binoculars. You can just see my daughter's arm to the side, just waiting for her turn after her big brother. #WeekLForLookingIn #AlphabetChallenge

A young boy in a blue tank top with probably a bit of his last drink showing on the front. He's holding red plastic binoculars to his eyes, looking in.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you have people in Texas, urge them to check their registration (Oct 5 deadline) & locate their polling place and rules (almost certainly changed). When I lived in TX I spent a lot of time helping people get registered and working in the polling stations. Texas always dicks with (blue) voters.

texastribune.org

Texas’ delayed voter applications highlight registration woes

Texas is among eight states that don’t have universal online voter registration. A DPS snafu created a backlog of at least 200,000 applications this week.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#Lights at Bar Z Winery on the edge of Palo Duro Canyon, a beautiful place to camp. The winery allows overnight RVs & we stayed, had some great conversation with owner Monty Dixon, a real character who will tell you he's he’s been making adult beverages since he was 9 years old. #BlueskyArtShow

A large room with a concrete floor and overhead door, lined with shelves of wine casks. Because it's in Texas, there's a typical big ass rolling fan on the floor. There are string lights snaked diagonally across the wood plank ceiling and recessed lights just out of focus enough to make them look a bit like floating, glowing orbs.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looking into the window and out at the 1. Kanaha Pond State Wildlife Sanctuary in Kahului, Maui, and 2. Lake Mineral Wells, Texas. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLookingIn

A window framed by painted cinder block looks out at a large pond at a bird sanctuary.

An open window with a screen section below in a weathered wood structure looks out at a small lake.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

1972: my mother-in-law rode with her grandmother (who'd just turned 100) in front of the Tipton County Pork Festival parade. We're in the area for Sid's 50th HS reunion & saw a billboard for the Festival so away we went. It's a part of American living I don't really know and it was delightful.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't know who the laughing woman is in the back but I want to laugh like that in the world! She's totally stealing the show from my granddaughter to the right of her. 2019 at Pond Hill Farm in Harbor Springs. #AlphabetChalleng #WeekJForJocular

In a barn there's a painted wood panel of a farmer with a couple of comical cows looking from the side, with a barn and silo behind. The face is cut out and the arms end at the elbows in holes for people to pretend to be a farmer. A young girl is looking through an arm hole. Behind this is the real action! A couple of young men and a woman holding a toddler stand together. The woman is arched backwards with an open-mouth laugh.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We had some really pretty fog on the lake at sunrise this morning, which feels like a #Stunday view to me. Just point & click unedited iPhone photos. Thanks for sharing your photos. Streets and stairs and pubs and birds and waterfalls and bays and rivers and forests and animals. They're an anchor

Fog across the lake looking north. Reeds grow out of the water in the foreground and a line of trees, some very distinct pines, lines the edge of the lake. The fog beyond them makes it unclear if the lake goes on or not but it doesn't, in fact, turning east for a few miles before expanding north again.

A line of reeds growing out of the lake in the fog looking east toward Graham point. If you squint hard and believe, you can see the trees and some homes or docks on the point.

One thing I love about Bluesky is it feels like we're sharing the fact that we're a cloud of witnesses (used non-religiously because I love the sound of the phrase) to the persistent beauty of the world, in the midst of persistent power trying to anger and oppress us.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Not sure what the people are doing but...maybe camping? It looks like an audience for a hula. Ontario, Canada #WeekIforIntegers #AlphabetChallenge

A blue road sign in Canada for King's Highway. On top is a graphic that shows an arrow forward for Highway 17. On bottom is an arrow for a right turn with a graphic of a person doing a hula at a guess (well, maybe pointing at things helpfully) with 3 other people seeming to watch.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pretty sunrise this morning almost got overtaken by clouds but I think the sun is winning the day.

Orange sunrise over the lake making the lake look deep orange with little ripples showing. A dark cloud fills much of the top of the frame with light gray clouds providing a layer right above the trees and water. In the middle is a cone of orange shining from the ball of sun.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We took a small ship cruise to Alaska that had an open bridge policy so we got to see the nautical charts. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforIntegers (I hope the number is sufficiently prominent, @sheena-mck.bsky.social, but you may have to click for it!)

A large nautical chart in the bridge of a ship.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Monday morning, you sure look fine. Gray but somehow not feeling gloomy to me here in northern Michigan. (But I don't mind; I don't mind. To carry on with the song lyrics.) Have a lovely day, y'all.

Dark gray morning sky with rain clouds and a bit of sunrise breaking through, enough to lay a dim orange carpet across the lake.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Second stop on today's field trip up north: Good Hart Glass Works. Lynn's been blowing glass for 45 years as an adult after earning her Girl Scout badge when she was 11 yo. She's been a ski instructor at Nub's Nob (where all the l̶o̶c̶a̶l̶s̶ cool people ski) for 50 years in winters. Today it's pumpkins.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

First stop of the day's Up North field trip was to see how much the yaks have grown since last year. Betty (the brown and white one) remains very photogenic. Turtle Moon Farm in Good Hart, Michigan.

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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The emergence of Bradley: most beavers prefer trees, but he has a more refined pallet.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A leaf making art. On my walk this morning.

A yellowed leaf tinged with green is filled with holes that look like stencil cutting creating art.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The home we live in in Hāna for springtime is provided by Sid's work there and we share it with 3 other seasonal couples. Every year I wrangle this junk drawer into some sort of submission but mostly it's just #chaos. #BlueskyArtShow

A kitchen drawer open to show twine, tools, tape, rubber bands, a lighter, a pen, and other chaos.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Layers and lines and loon on the lake this morning.

Crooked Lake with overcast skies, the lines of a quiet pontoon passing by, and a loon on its morning time spent at our end of the lake every morning. The photo shows the lake bordered by low, tree-filled hills in shadow with a utility easement cut through the trees on one section.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I woke up to 50° and you know what that means about summer! Northern Michigan was slow this summer after the historic and severe flooding in spring. Tourists numbers were lower and not many boats on the lake. Anyway, the trail called this morning and I answered.

Green poison ivy surrounding 3 red leaves of ivy.

A break through the trees, across the stream, with wooden pallets set down for crossing.
Morning walk

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Good night (soon) Blue(and orange)sky, from northern Michigan.

Sunset over the lake with docked pontoons in the foreground, a very still lake reflecting the orange sky, and clouds from nearby holding onto the orange glow.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I had the joy of babysitting my 2 yo grandson for a week this month. It's so gratifying to see how much he LOVES books. Also, he spent quite a bit of time pretending to cook his constant companion Bebé in his little kitchen.

A young boy stands with his mother at a library shelf, choosing a book.

A little baby doll in a woven basket that apparently doubles as a baking vessel.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Kapalua Labyrinth, Maui 2023 #Earth #BlueskyArtShow My memory of this visit is Sid telling some tourists about the Chartres Labyrinth & a broad history of labyrinths, probably some theological history. I never know how totally into it people are about these moments but they all seem to love Sid.

On the west coast of Maui, a labyrinth made of rocks with the Honokahua Bay in the distance and probably Lipoa Point in the distance.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Whole #Earth Provision Co. One of my favorite places in (old) Austin during my years attending the University of Texas and after. Back when I could be proud to say it's my alma mater. Also back when you could pay for college by working a part-time job, and take your time graduating! #BlueskyArtShow

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My father back when he decided to build a retirement home in the Davis Mountains of far west Texas. It became a cherished place for all of us before they aged out of it. #BlueskyArtShow #Earth

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The smoke from the Ontario fires here in northern Michigan is heartbreaking. I've had wildfire smoke before but never like this. Ashes are covering everything.

A tree's leaves drift down the left side of the photo which is otherwise filled with yellow smoke and a small orange dot of a sun.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I guess we missed the Sh$t Show Karaoke. Fort Collins on Saturday evening. #streetphotography

A main corner at Old Town Fort Collins (Colorado) in the evening. An old two story building sits at the corner with a corner lighted sign at the corner curve of the building. The red sign says "Artery" and below it a marquee has dates and events, one being, of course, the Sh$t Show Karaoke.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Masu turns 93 today! Born & raised in Hāna, left for service in during the Korean war and ended up living on the mainland for 30 years. Ask Masu how it's going and he'll remind you that "Every day's a good day!" Kind, thoughtful, loving, playful. He's my great friend and sunrise walking partner.

At Mahele Farm where we volunteer every Thursday. He's picking surinam cherries and giving most of them to me to eat. He's volunteered since the nonprofit farm started in 2010 as a collaboration between Kahanu Garden (National Tropical Botanical Garden), Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke (Hāna School's building and construction program helping at-risk youth grow real life skills and job training), and Hāna School's Agricultural program.

He's the green onion cleaner and critic, and he'll always say he "doesn't do nothing anymore" but he's the heartbeat of the farm.

Masu arriving for a visit to the hale kahu.

Laughing about something at Hāna Bay, holding his wizard stick.

Tucking into breakfast when we were on the other side for the day. He can eat!

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Museo de Arte Religioso Ex Convento de Santa Mónica in Puebla, Mexico. Link in ALT text I really, really encourage people to visit Puebla. My uncle, a Mexican American historian, gave us a packed one week tour of history, natural beauty, food. Consider 2 weeks & plan well. #BlueskyArtShow #Curved

A curved white stucco stairway (spiral stairway, actually) with a smiling man standing on it. If you want to take a minute to zoom in on the shirt, I'll tell you something about it. I saw it in a market in Oaxaca and said, "You should get this" and overcame some uncertainty. Those colorful spots are fabulous women. Now EVERY SINGLE TIME he wears that shirt we can barely get through a group of people because everyone wants to stop him to tell him they love his shirt and what's the story.
Promised link: https://lugares.inah.gob.mx/en/node/4281

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Is there anything better than eating too much over a few hours while sitting in a carport talking with people you love? Maybe, but it ranks up there with some of the best. #FoodOnFriday

People sit and stand outside around tables covered with bright table cloths depicting Hawaiian plants. It's the dessert and standing around talking phase of the potluck.

People sit at a large table in a carport with mostly empty plates in front of them. The table is covered with bright Hawaiian tablecloths. Most are talking but Tad is looking off at something and her husband Dean is watching me take the picture.

Nani and Riley stand talking against the carport halfway in front of banana trees. In the background are palm trees and the very edge of the banyan tree.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I just used the term bailiwick and went to my favorite etymology site. Fun to see that I knew the components even if my brain wasn't making the right connections. #words

etymonline.com

Bailiwick - Etymology, Origin & Meaning

"district of a bailiff, jurisdiction of a royal officer or under-sheriff," a contraction… See origin and meaning of bailiwick.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

My son sharpening my knives for me with some fancy gadgets. #BlueSkyArtShow #Sharp

A man in a kitchen looks at a knife blade under a microscope. Next to him on the counter is a knife sharpening gadget.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Six photos of volunteer day at Mahele Farm this morning. It's summer so there were high school and college students volunteering! And 4 or 5 little kids running around. Hāna, Maui, Hawai'i

Waiting to see if she's pregnant because the boy got in with her and had a while to do his thing. She just had babies so they hope she gets a little break.
A big black and white pig in a portable fence among trees. Everything's so green. There's an orange home depot bucket outside the pen and a blue kiddie pool inside the pen.

140 māmaki leaves I harvested. Some people make tea from the green leaves but I take them home and dry them before making tea. It's a delicious, delicate flavor, and has adaptogenic properties. The leaves are stacked ten to a pile, on the grass. Their stems are pink.

The garden beds are crazy happy right now, lots and lots of green growth. Four high school and college kids, an adult volunteer, and a farm employee work in the beds to harvest and weed.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Morning walk while the sun rose. Hāna, Maui, Hawai'i

For #WaterWednesday, a couple of guys fishing off the pier at Hāna Bay with a beautiful orange sunrise as a backdrop and Hāna Bay waves in the foreground. I like the little bits of orange reflected in the breaking wave.

An earlier view of the fishing guys with a softer, pinker sunrise and a more silver bay.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Last Thursday at Mahele Farm. Volunteering with good people for a good cause in a beautiful setting! Hāna, Maui, Hawai'i One more volunteer Thursday then we're off to the mainland for the year.

A pig in a gated community on lush grass surrounded by banana, papaya, banyan and other trees.

garden beds of kale, lettuce, radishes, edible flowers, green onions, collard greens, bok choy, māmaki, Japanese eggplant, and other veggies. People are working in the beds, with a shed and a farm vehicle in the background. Someone should remind me what those sturdy little vehicles are called.

Another photo of the garden beds with workers, trees in the background, and hills reaching up into the cloudy sky behind.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

From my morning walk. When people say "everything happens for a reason," I assume they are making a quasi-theological statement. In my mind's eye, I see something like this.

Everything happens for a reason, like when a large tree branch (shown lying on the top of a tumbled down lava rock wall) convinces the wall to tumble, and the grass takes its opportunity to grow atop the tumbled rocks. From this angle, you can see the banyan tree in our yard, across from the cemetery beside the house. It is the tree behind the tree in front that's highlighted with lighting. It looks a bit like it would be a green hill.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I took about a million pictures of this driftwood that came ashore during the Kona Low storms--deleted about a million minus one. It stayed until a few days ago. I've had The Moody Blues in my head since I first saw it (attached post).

A very large, twisted tree on a beach. It's full of colors and textures. It came up during the Kona Low Storms and probably left us in the recent high winds or the 6.0 earthquake that woke me up the other night!

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Morning walk today with a bonus photo from yesterday of Masu (my sunrise walking partner who turns 93 next month).

Sunrise view out through Hāna Bay with waves breaking on the shore. At the left is a large, leafy tree leaning into the photo, shading picnic tables on grass. On the right, Ka'uiki Hill surrounds another little cove with Kaihalulu Beach. The smaller hill farther out in the ocean is called Ka'uiki Head and has an old, functioning lighthouse used in the sugar cane days when Hāna Bay was full of rail cars and ships supporting the industry. The #ColorADay #OrangeSun is breaking through the heavy clouds above the water.

I pass this plumeria tree on Uakea Road every day. I don't know how one trunk got wrapped in roots except that in Hawai'i you often see flowers and vines growing in trees. "Uakea" means white mist, and I often hear Hawaiian songs that refer to the "white mist of Hāna", the rain that is so light that you might smell the rain before you notice that it's raining.

Masu walking over the debris left by the Kona Low storm on the way to the beach where we walk. I don't know which is more important, the walking or the talk story, but I love this man and am sorry that my time is winding up here for this year.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/05/2026

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

#WaterfallWednesday We took our full house to hike the Pīpīwai Trail in the Kīpahulu District of Haleakalā National Park. 2 waterfalls (Falls at Makahiku pictured), a bamboo forest, and a lot of beauty. Listen to the bamboos knock in the next comment.

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𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚙 @matreyoo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Yesterday we took our 6 (family) house guests to hike at Wai'anapanapa State Park. Though I wasn't really taking photos, I knew I needed some for #RockinTuesday. Got a little ocean for #ColorADay #BlueTue, as well. A quick photo for more location context. A little more information in the ALT text.

From the black lava cliffs of this section of the King's Highway on Maui you can see the sparkling blue ocean with white waves crashing into rocks. The King's Highway (Alaloa o Pi'ilani) was built about 500 years ago and circumnavigated the entire island of Maui. It was 138 miles long. The sugarcane industry and its modern roadways (as well as time and lack of upkeep) has dismantled much of the trail of blue basalt river stones.

After looking at many photos of beautiful mushrooms, I think this is Hericium coralloides. An edible member of the tooth fungi family. A white, yellowing stringy, round fungus sits on black lava rocks.

Source: https://ultimate-mushroom.com/edible/1135-hericium-coralloides.html

A view of the black lava coast at Wai'anapanapa State Park. The coast curves around a small bay. On the far side you can see the green ground cover of naupaka leaves and trees behind.

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