Paradise …. Found.

And thy name is Jade Lily. 

The house where we stayed the second part of our vacation was magical.  Glorious.  Delightful.

With a view to-die-for …

And a warm welcome-ness that invited us to go ahead and make ourselves at home …

And a pretty spectacular backyard …

 

right on a stream with giant monkey pod trees …

and kayaks to take us down to the beach …

 

Even our computers were right at home (smirk).

‘Twas a wonderful little “tree house” to live in for a week.  :-)

And I want to go back. Yesterday. And stay forever. ps.  the “glow” that you see in many of the pictures is not post-processing; it’s the condensation that lived in my lens the whole time we were at Jade Lily.  :-)

Orange Week at I Heart Faces

Even before we left, Littlest Dude was highly excited about the opportunity to find a real coconut. Found it, he did. And he was well pleased. [photo credit: Big Dude & his new p&s]

It Might Take Me Awhile ...

... a long while, to stop missing this view.



I'll blog more Kauai beauty (and actually edit some pictures) after I relearn how to export a Lightroom catalog from my laptop and import it onto my desktop. If Big Dude would only take me on lots more vacations (smirk), maybe I could remember the process better. ;-)

Voted Absentee.

Because we've been terribly busy the last few days.













Hey, Teen, give us your best "this is sooo lame" expression!:











And because, goshdarnit, I live in CA, and I'm always ALWAYS voting on the losing side ... it can get a little depressing. It helps a little being in my "happy place." [grin]

note: because I'm feeling Island-relaxed, and because my laptop is no good for editing, all these pictures are SOOC - a mixture of my big girl camera and the new toy camera. :-)