They were in Palolo walking down a crowded sidewalk hand-in-hand. She spotted a gorgeous Hibiscus blossom outside the bank. “Ohhhh!” She sighed, stopping dead. She let go of his hand and began rummaging through her bag.
He took a few steps away and diligently studied a light pole. As She pulled the camera from her bag He muttered under his breath (just loudly enough for her to hear), “Turista! Turista!”
Snap!
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Que sera, sera.
ohh… i envy you the abundance of blossoms and colour. beautiful!
By: polona on January 12, 2008
at 7:58 am
Polona — there are flowers everywhere! Bright, beautiful and exotic. I never tire of snapping their pictures. Maybe someday I’ll even get good at it! The ocean shots on my other blog were made possible by my tripod — a Christmas gift from O’Ceallaigh.
By: QuillDancer on January 12, 2008
at 9:19 am
[...] QuillDancer wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThey were in Palolo walking down a crowded sidewalk hand-in-hand. She spotted a gorgeous flower outside the bank. “Ohhhh!” She sighed, stopping dead. She let go of his hand and began rummaging through her bag. He took a few steps away and diligently studied a light pole. As She pulled the camera from her bag He muttered under his breath (just loudly enough for her to hear), “Tourista! Tourista!” Snap! [...]
By: » Snap! on January 13, 2008
at 12:10 am
Yea… don’t EVER get over being a “turista”! God gave you that beauty for a reason! He LOVES that you LOVE it!!! And so do I!
By: melli on January 13, 2008
at 3:34 pm
By the way… how to you PRONOUNCE O’Ceallaigh? And please don’t say O.C.! Thank you!
By: melli on January 13, 2008
at 3:35 pm
Melli — don’t worry. I carry my camera everywhere!
And O’Ceallaigh said to tell you his name is pronounced amoeba.
By: QuillDancer on January 13, 2008
at 8:01 pm
OH! Did I hear you say we should have a CONTEST to see who knows how to pronounce O’Ceallaigh?
By: melli on January 14, 2008
at 5:16 am
Amoeba says Oh. Hard C like in Celtic. E, silent a; two L’s, “aigh” was in “weigh”. Got it?
By: QuillDancer on January 14, 2008
at 4:08 pm
I think I have been pronouncing it in my head
O KALA both long A’s
Well,,I will never remember the right way, once I prounouce them wrong, there is no hope for me.
that is a lovely flower. It brings my grandmother to mind. I can’t see a Hibiscus without thinking of her. She tried to raise them in the snow country, babied them indoors, and if they would produce one tiny little flowers she was ecstatic. I moved to garden grove and they had them 8 feet tall as hedges. With flowers six inches and more across………I had to shake my head, If my grandmother could have only seen them in their glory.
This is a very vibrant color..the ones she had were a muted soft apricot. But they come in many colors, as do their relatives the mallows and the hollyhocks.
By: nea on January 15, 2008
at 2:50 pm
Nea, this flower was easily a 6 incher — and you can see the thickness of the bush branches. They also grow quite tall here.
Hibiscus does come in a good variety of colors, from deep red to palest yellow. These were the first flowers I had seen with the vibrant yellow petals and the deep crimson throat. They are truly magnificent.
By: QuillDancer on January 16, 2008
at 5:52 pm
Beautiful picture! I hope you never stop noticing how beautiful that place is.
By: tlp on January 17, 2008
at 7:41 pm
TLP — so do I!
By: QuillDancer on January 17, 2008
at 10:30 pm
A flower worth stopping for! I could never have resisted it.
By: katcampbell on January 18, 2008
at 7:07 am
Kat — yep. I didn’t even try.
By: QuillDancer on January 19, 2008
at 7:51 am