Category: Happy & Healthy

One of the best things about living in Hawaii is being surrounded by a dazzling variety of flowers! Most of them smell heavenly. Especially at night, I’ll smell a divine tropical fragrance in the air, often times from a flowering bush in a neighbor’s yard. I also have lovely orchids growing and while a lot […]

I love my annual summertime trip to Seattle, it’s always the most spectacular warm weather, with tons of blackberries and huckleberries to pick and all kinds of yummy edible weeds to make into green smoothies.

It’s always fun to cruise north and enjoy the dramatic scenery!

It was incredibly fun to fly over to Oahu for a day trip to visit with friends and family! We got to sightsee, hike, go to a few beaches and drive west just for the fun of it. It was a fabulous day! You can tell how busy we were by the lack of pictures. […]

Hiking in the mountains, south side Beaches and the annual Koinobori display!

I spent a super fun couple of weeks visiting friends and family in the Pacific Northwest, hiking, feeding the Hummingbirds who actually braved the freezing winter temperatures and baking yummy vegan Cinnamon Rolls and apple cakes!

I’m always the happiest when I’m hiking in the mountains or running on the beach! Here are pictures from a few of my favorite mountain hikes here in Hawaii. And it was a fruitful guava season, I picked tons of yellow guava and froze them. I blended them up in the blender first, strained out […]

Hello from the Pacific Northwest! I’ve been here for a month enjoying the end of Summer, hiking, picking Blackberries, Huckleberries (3 kinds!!!) Apples and lots of edible weeds like Stinging Nettles, Wild Mustard, Dandelion, Sow Thistle, Sheep Sorrel, Cleavers, Purslane, and Horsetail, Bittercress. I even found wild Watercress growing by the Beach! I also made […]

Hi everybody! It’s been a fabulous sunny Summer so far and I’ve been trying to visit some of my favorite beaches all over the island 🙂