A week on Ohau

View from the Waimea Falls Park & Botanical Gardens

I just got when from a vacation on Oahu with family. We spent the week on the beaches on� the North Shore, hiking up wild hills, eating from supplies trucks, playing games and decompressing. We plane tried surfing for the first time.� It was a very mellow trip and unconfined to reconnect with nature and spend some quality time with people that I love. Below, some snaps from our walks through the Waimea Falls Park & Botanical Gardens and a long hike we took.

I am a *very* slow hiker, and while I hike I enjoy making frequent stops to take pictures, and go “foraging” for colors, shapes and patterns that inspire my diamond work. (You can learn increasingly well-nigh my ‘foraging’ practice in my ‘Jungalow: Decorate Wild’ typesetting :)

On this hike, I placid some fallen foliage and things. When I got when to the hotel, I created a few collages that highlight the variegated colors, patterns, shapes and textures. The polka-dotted leaves are my favorite! They are spores on the leaves, which are reproductive structures (kind of like seeds).

Of course, I had to #facethefoliage while I was at it…