sights and sounds

This flower was the only yellow one on the entire bush.

All of the others were red. How does that happen?

This is Kingston, the bird who lives with the family that hosted some of us on Kauai. Kingston answers ringing cell phones with a very clear, "hello?" in a man's voice. He whistles at the ladies.

He is learning the first line of the Winnie the Pooh theme song.

And he cock-a-doodle-doos like the wild roosters and clucks like the chickens.

Now I know you've all seen roosters before. But they are ALL OVER THE ISLAND on Kauai. Let me just say, there is no need for alarm clocks. They seem to face directly into bedroom windows at 5:00am. And they aren't so afraid of cars. No need, really, since the speed limit on most of the island is 25 mph.