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Artmail 165c

July 7, 2008

Links to Artmail 165s: a, b, c, d

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Aloha all...

I had the first couchsurfers since "new" Couch Corner arrangement in 15B...

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The Couch Corner

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Alex and Sara flew to Big Island from Boston to later attend a wedding on Kaua'i. They "surfed my couch" on the 3rd and 4th while exploring the west side. They hiked into Waipo'o Falls and caught a Polihale Sunset on the 4th. They saw fireworks of the First Annual Fourth of July celebration from a distance. I watched those fireworks from Betsi's yard about 100 yards away. I didn't walk back for my digital camera when I remembered how, with the camera's delay before the shutter snaps, I mostly missed the good shots in the past. That was a mistake. The fireworks were great! It would have been difficult to get "dark sky shots" with my camera.

Alex had traveled in Central America and Africa and more, but I got distracted on my own 1975 Europe trip photos...but Alex had also traveled around Europe and like seeing the changes to in areas that he was in 30 years later. They were perfect couchsurfers.

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CS Alex and Sara arrive in their rental car.

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Sara and Alex in front of Kekaha Ha'aheo 15B.

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Back to Boston...Aloha.

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I haven't been taking many photos, lately, so to have more for this Artmail, I took some shots of my very limited food garden. For a long time, I've had plans to grow some spices such as oregano, basil, rosemary, etc. in their own containers...since the 1970s, when I lived in Ojai, I have procrastinated. Last month, Betsi gave me some branches of rosemary to use for spaghetti sauce. There was more than I needed, so I kept the rest in water. One of the branches sent out three roots, so I decided to plant it in a container I had from Hemigraphis I planted for ground cover...

Hemigraphis ground cover.

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I have had a "compost area" below my kitchen windows that I had not used yet...so, I put some in the container and planted the rooting rosemary.

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There is a packed layer of humus about 3/4 inch on top of the black plastic underneath.

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The first of my living spices is started.

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Last February, Kolo gave me his container with green onions. It also had three starters of long Asian bean plants. Kolo used to take care of wild Asian green bean plants (otong) growing near irrigation ditches that he visited, watered and harvested by bicycle, then sold most to the farmers' market vendors or the local store, but gave handfulls to his friends.

The beans in the onion container grew and eventually climbed the red ti plant stalk next to it and a bamboo stick that I stuck in a neighbor container...

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[I put this page online early because it is taking me longer to go back outside, take another photo, and work with it for this page, etc. than the total time I've spent so far on my "vegetable garden." These tasty, long green beans are expensive in the store. So, as I wait for the FedEx delivery of my new scanner, my imagination has been working on a different kind of "vegetable garden." This is the beginning of another one of my "projects" which will be a good food producer. My "Otong Bean Growing Project" will give me a reason to add photos to this series of Artmails while my scanning of old photos continues. Back in 1977, I photographed the blossoming of a century plant in Ojai.

The idea for my developing project goes back to Tumu Nu days at Polihale after Hurricane Iniki which happened on 9/11/1992. I had gotten a "camping in a closed State Park" citation from Game Warden Perkins on October 7th.

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Polihale Beach

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Later that day, I started clearing out dead thorny kiawe to begin my hidden camp (about 100 feet from the park boundary) which I named from the tumunu (Click) tradition of Atiu Island in the Cook Islands. (I have other photo prints of Tumu Nu waiting to be scanned).

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Anyway, I had a lot of piles of dead kiawe to cover, and I wanted to hide and shade Tumu Nu. For part of that process, I was guiding the wild beach morning glory by twisting it along twine which I arranged to form a network that would shade and hide Tumu Nu while still allowing an open space through which to obsreve the sun and the moon from the campsite...

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Tumu Nu's makai entrance is at the left...a network of beach morning glories.

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What I did back then with the morning glories is what I'm going to do with a few Asian green bean plants at 15B. But, first a few more of the photos I found of Tumu Nu:

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My tent is under there.

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Tumu Nu days.

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[I am going to continue Otong Bean Growing Project in Artmail 165d. FedEx didn't deliver my scanner yesterday! I'm still waiting.]

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