WALKING AND ALL THAT JAZZ

We took my favorite walk this morning which is to go over to the road that goes up to Diamondhead, but we walk on the beach. Because they are experiencing really high waves right now, a lot of our walk wasn't available on the beach because the water was covering the beach.  However, we did get some good quality beach walking time, anyway.  

It was quite hot. I think this is the last day it's  going to be hot. it's supposed to be much cooler tomorrow and possibly showers, then rain on Saturday.

On our way, we met this painter, Mark Brown, painting in the park.

This is a painting from his website. I would really like one of these. 

It was also too rough to bother swimming with the fishes today, but tomorrow when it's cooler and maybe a little flatter water we will either snorkel or rent a paddle board.  

Our afternoon excursion today was to go to the Episcopal Church for the jazz vespers.  The bus ride was a bit of a mistake, because of course we got on the bus at 5 o'clock, and you know what that means anywhere.  The vespers were amazing.  They had about ten members there for vespers, and started with a social time where we were personally introduced to each individual attending.  And at the end each individual member asked us to come back next week.  This church dates from 1914, and in the 70’s they had the plain glass windows replaces with stained glass.  

The designs are quite wonderful, made from chunks of glass which gives many of them a real three-dimensional effect. 

And then the Jazz started.  This is usually a quartet, but the saxophonist is out of town so it was a singer, pianist, and stand-up bass player.  I thought they were marvelous.  And the singer, Starr Kalahiki, could hold a note forever, decrescendo and crescendo on it, with no vibrato and totally maintain a perfect pitch.    I loved them.  The pianist was Jun Howard, and the bassist was Alyka Lyman.    

I'm hoping we won't be too much in departure mode to go see them again next Thursday.   

We were going to go to a restaurant John found called Cha Cha Cha tonight, except it turned out it was from an old guidebook and closed in 2013.  So we just had a pizza.  

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