This one's for you, mom.

I'm pretty sure one of my mom's favorite stories to tell about me is the time my step-dad was teaching me how to change a flat tire on one of our cars and I told him to pause for a bit so I could run inside and grab my camera to get some pictures of the exposed gears and what-not.

That kind of thing certainly isn't a one-time occurance. My friends here are wonderfully patient and don't mind stopping every few feet so I can take a picture of something else on the way. Today I was walking back from visiting the Polynesian Cultural Center and decided I wanted some close-up pictures of plumeria blooms, so up that tree I climbed. My lens is manual focus, so there were some points that were a bit precarious as I was trying to focus the picture and not end up on the ground while doing that. I'll have to try again sometime because I didn't get quite what I wanted in terms of pictures, but at the same time I also didn't want a broken appendage.




Also, can I mention how awesome it is to have plumeria trees around? I don't think I'll evereverever get over how fortunate I am to be here.