Warren Onishi (he’s one of the displaced Walmart McDonald’s regulars when it went “to-go-only”) used his smartphone to get a photo of a late-afternoon honeybee (with everyone complying with the governor’s and mayor’s stay-home mandate, bees and birds are about the only things to photograph) looking for the good stuff from the Mamo (yellow) Lehua at Kukui Grove Center Friday (mahalo, Kukui Grove Center security, for saying “we’re OK”) afternoon.
Warren Onishi (he’s one of the displaced Walmart McDonald’s regulars when it went “to-go-only”) used his smartphone to get a photo of a late-afternoon honeybee (with everyone complying with the governor’s and mayor’s stay-home mandate, bees and birds are about the only things to photograph) looking for the good stuff from the Mamo (yellow) Lehua at Kukui Grove Center Friday (mahalo, Kukui Grove Center security, for saying “we’re OK”) afternoon.
The weird quietness (Derek and Cynthia Sone were still pumping orders, mindful of social distancing) triggered Warren’s memories of the days of photographing with Gerald Ida, Mike Teruya (no bon dances or hula, this year), and other old-timers like editors Julia Neal and Rita DeSilva when the Kilauea and Kilauea Iki volcanoes were going off at the same time.
Brian Atendido (no, he was busy tending his “jungle”) suggested that, with no people up and about, this is a good time to look in the jungle for stuff to photograph. Mahalo to the Reynolds Recycling and refuse-transfer-station people for all the aloha they have for everyone who is staying home and sprucing up their respective jungles.
Great job taking care of all those who are trying to comply with the stay-home rules.
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Dennis Fujimoto, staff writer and photographer, can be reached at 245-0453 or dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.
