Friday, April 3, 2020... Those pesky ads

Wow wow wow... Iʻm sitting up here in the loft.  Itʻs HOT.  And yesterday in Hilo was hot too.  Blue skies, puffs of cumulus...light winds, mostly from the south, it seems.  Finally!!! After unending weeks of bonechill, sleeping under quilted layers, it feels so so so good to be warm without layers.  Yes, I know that this is likely temporary, but nevertheless...

These, from the HVO webcams, were yesterday morning

and these, also from an HVO webcam, at Mokuʻāweoweo, the summit caldera of Maunaloa, on March 18, then on March 24:

At the changing of the seasons...

Now...Those familiar with these fair isles, if attentive to detail, may tsk-tsk at "Errors" in advertisements with Hawaiʻi themes.  Methinks those are maybe not Errors, at least in the minds of the writers of said ads.  Rather, the misfires are the results of ignorance on the part of advertisers.  Laziness, ignorance, and of course:  "But I found it on The Internet"...It Must Be True!!!

Not...

Tiare, the Tahitian gardenia, is up there on The Favorites list.  It has a unique scent, and I adore it.  There are many hybrids out there these days, seemingly between tiare, and our endemic nānū [nāʻū to some].

Below is the true tiare:

 A bud... they open in early afternoon, if youʻre inclined to gather them and fashion

perhaps a kūpeʻe for your hair, as friend M-JW did several years ago, adding lauaʻe, a leafy fern, and moa, those knobby branchlets, for effect.

Here is our rare nānū, with its smaller flowers and leaves, and spherical dye-yielding seed pod.  Nānū seems to set seed easily, but Iʻve never seen a pod on a tiare shrub.

Hybrids look similar, though most have the typical gardenia scent, as does, to my nose, nānū.  Leaves of hybrids are often large and wavy, while tiare leaves are big and flat.

OK?  Now go TryLook The Internet.  The first from a Glade air freshener campaign.  Featuring a pink plumeria.

And this, with the classic Graveyard yellow plumeria, from oversoyed.com

The GYP is called that by some because itʻs frequently planted (or used to be...) in cemeteries.

And please note, dear readers, that "Monoi" is not a flower.  Rather, itʻs a tiare-scented coconut oil from Tahiti.  Following photo on Amazon:

And thatʻs just tiare...  Moving right along to other annoyances:

Kitty Litter?!  Really???

Iʻll just leave it at that.  

Tomorrow weʻll delve into the very popular Kingʻs Hawaiian brandings...

If nothing else, if itʻs sunny and warm, go sit outside.  And pay attention.  We all need Vitamin D...

Up here The Blooming has begun.  Itʻs lehua season again, and the ʻapapane are overjoyed.  Iʻve been admiring a blooming ʻōhiʻa across the street while lounging on the couch.  I was season-lost then remembered we were in March last month.  Just about the time of bountiful lehua last year.  Itʻs been that long.

As always, with aloha,

BobbyC
maniniowali@gmail.com