Post #647215 by WaikikianMoeKele on Mon, Aug 6, 2012 10:16 PM

Ok, here it is, my finished piece...

Entitled, "Diamond Head Erupting"
Bead Mosaic

When I visited Oahu in 1994 with my now ex-husband & 3 younger daughters for a Community Cable TV Conference we we definitely traveling "on the cheap." Because of this he chose the cheapest housing available which was the University of Hawaii at Manoa. We stayed in an apartment on the 13th floor of a student housing building near what we called the "Jetson Towers", round tower housing. Anyway, for 3 days I was looking out the living room window & seeing what seemed a very familiar view, but I couldn't quite place it. I asked the students at the desk downstairs if there was a famous view up on the 13th floor, but they told me, 'I don't know I've never been up there.' Finally, about day 4, I realized that I had been staring at DIAMOND HEAD for 3 days & did not recognize it! Well, I really enjoyed it for the remainder of our 7 day stay, but to this day whenever ANYONE in my family sees a picture of Diamond Head, they say to me, "what is the name of that mountain?" So this is my tribute to Diamond Head.

Also, during WWII, my father was stationed near Pearl Harbor & he worked in the tunnels that were blasted in the extinct volcanoes (I have a couple pics) & when I visited there, I was thrilled to see the doorways into the hillsides that he had told me about as we traveled. My Dad did not get there until a while after "a day that will live in infamy." Although they were often on high alert, they never were actually in any real danger as somehow the Japanese decided to never again attack the Hawaiian bases. As my father was really into photography, I also have some interestint 'candid' shots of the 'native women' which my mother would never let us view as children! But mostly just candid shots of the soldiers daily life.

Ok, I digress. Here is my finished offering for the Pele/Fire/Volcano Art Swap.

~kele