by Bela Johnson | May 29, 2019 | gardening, Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, perspective, photography, Uncategorized
Shower trees quiver blossoms of shell pink or flaxen yellow with ivory struck through, sucking up abundant rainwater, tips a brand new green in these late spring days; shooting ever upward, obscuring, as originally planned, any traces of power lines stretched between...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 29, 2019 | animals, nature, philosophy, photography, Uncategorized
I go down burrowing, a badger unearthing for the sake of it, a sort of mining known only to the creature and sometimes the human heart, the latter less willing to surrender its complexities; On the surface doves appear to assert territoriality, the movement stitched...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 22, 2019 | Hawaii, nature, perspective, photography, poetry, Uncategorized
Time slips by, a wisp, a wrinkle, and soon we are dust, unremarkable, insignificant; as one, at long last, with the beauty that surrounds us. All photos ©Bela Johnson
by Bela Johnson | Jan 15, 2019 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, philosophy, photography, Uncategorized
This post is entitled appropriately as my ode to 2018. 2019 seems downright revved up, as we begin with the first dry weather we’ve had in some time. And the energy to clear up what was muddled most of last year! Aloha, All::: Rain streams now in sheets,...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 8, 2019 | growing up, nature, philosophy, photography, Uncategorized
I never wanted famous, though it was proffered more than once; did not want to grow up in public, recorded on the cortices of admirers, on film or stage, no; talent may, through its own merits, ease its way into hearts to pause or to remain; In the shadows or in the...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 17, 2018 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, perspective, photography, Uncategorized
There are those who shun the wind, though I am not one of them. A desert dweller by birth, living in a subtropical environment has me gasping all too often for air, movement of energy, a yearning for fresh. Tonight we drove to the end of the road as is often the case...
