I have never seen a white Heron before. At first I thought this was a cattle egret then realized the neck wasn't long enough.
Everytime I've driven by this park I told myself I would return and take pictures of this path lined by trees. Now that I've done it I'm not sure if I like the b&w or color image best...so I'm posting both.
This statue of Dr. José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda stands at the front entrance to the Filipino Community Center.
From Wikipedia:
José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), was a Filipino nationalist and reformist. He is considered one of the national heroes of the Philippines, together with Andres Bonifacio. Studying in Europe, he was the most prominent advocate for reform in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He was wrongly implicated as the leader of the Katipunan Revolution, and that led to his execution on December 30, 1896, now celebrated as Rizal Day, a national holiday in the country.
Rizal was born to a wealthy family in Calamba, Laguna and was the seventh of eleven children. He attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor of Arts diploma and studied medicine at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. He continued his studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, earning the degree of Licentiate in Medicine, making him eligible to practice medicine. He also attended lectures at the University of Paris and the University of Heidelberg.
Rizal was a polymath; besides medicine, he was also an artist who dabbled in painting, sketching, sculpting and woodcarving. He was a prolific poet, essayist, and novelist whose most famous works were his two novels, Noli me Tangere and its sequel, El filibusterismo. These social commentaries during the Spanish colonization of the country formed the nucleus of literature that inspired peaceful reformists and armed revolutionaries alike. Rizal was also a polyglot, conversant in twenty-two languages.
As a political figure, José Rizal was the founder of La Liga Filipina, a civic organization that subsequently gave birth to the Katipunan led by Andrés Bonifacio, a secret society which would start the Philippine Revolution against Spain that eventually laid the foundation of the First Philippine Republic under Emilio Aguinaldo. He was a proponent of achieving Philippine self-government peacefully through institutional reform rather than through violent revolution, and would only support "violent means" as a last resort. Rizal believed that the only justification for national liberation and
self-government is the restoration of the dignity of the people, saying "Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?" The general consensus among Rizal scholars is that his execution by the Spanish government ignited the Philippine Revolution.
I believe this smoke stack is all that is left of the Waipahu Sugar Mill.
This used to be Arakawa's Waipahu store, founded in 1909 by Zenpan Arakawa, an immigrant from Okinawa. From 1909 until its closing in 1995, Arakawa's store was the essence of ohana: As soon as you walked in to the 1 1/2-level store on Waipahu's Depot Road, you felt you were part of the family, as a member of the Arakawa family personally greeted you with a "Howzit and how may I help you?"
You can read the Honolulu Star Bulletin's Special on the store here:
http://archives.starbulletin.com/2002/09/29/special/story12.html
We walked from Waipahu Street down Waipahu Depot Street till we got to the bridge on the Pearl Harbor Bike Path aka Pearl Harbor Historic Trail. We spent the most time here taking pictures.
Walking back up Waipahu Depot Street we saw this rainbow.
Saiki Motors is a building I've long wanted to take pictures of. It's on Waipahu Street just west of the Waipahu Depot Street intersection. In some ways it marks the end of the old business district and the beginning of the housing areas and the newer developments in Waipahu.
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