Sunday, May 1, 2022. Lei Day 2022

 As the year zooms by...this Lei Day is a rainy one in Keaʻau ma uka.  The year started out dry, with little rain from January to late March.  I started to cut back on water usage in early March, waiting for the rains to return.  And, of course they did.  Good thing too, because all blooming things welcome the abundance.

"May Day is Lei Day in Hawaiʻi"... imprinted, ingrained, from small kid time.  Though the holiday was "invented", I still honor it, and the tradition of sharing lei.

about Lei Day in Hawaiʻi

Iʻve written about Lei Day previously, and there are lots of resources circulating through the ether.  I stumbled across the below yesterday.  Give the cruel and devastatingly sad state of affairs in Ukraine, we must find hope that someday soon sanity prevails.

Lei Day in Ukraine 2021

Stringing kou on ili hau, more than a few years ago.  Keen-eyed ones may comment:  At the Beach?  Bananaʻs?  Yes, but...we werenʻt going fishing...

And random photos from the Collection.  Lots of memories.  LOTS of memories, and too, most importantly, Aloha!!!

And in keeping with the standard practice of make with what get...If you up the mountain, and get kolomona in the pasture, and climbing pink roses on the ramshackle hale, and liko lehua...and no moʻ needle, thread, raffia, or ʻili hau, use kikuyu grass!!!  Can.  Always can...Always.

And, we should be legally cultivating those plants that are endangered.  From a friends yard, a lei kokio:  Kokia drynarioides, a spectacle of a flower...

Hiki?  Go.  Make a lei, wear a lei, give a lei.  

With aloha, always aloha,

BobbyC

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