These displays are huge! The pop can on the turtle is as big as a person!!

December, 2009

These are photos from the Hawaii “City Of Lights” held every year for the past 25 years.  It’s an all day and into the night party with lights, ginormous decorations, floats, fake snow being blown onto everyone from behind the snow man and woman, a huge Shaka Santa and Santa’s Wife, giant trees, . . whew, too much to mention, just come down and see it for yourself!

I walked down because it is less than a mile from my apartment and there is not much chance of getting a parking space unless you have a

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I snapped these photos of Koi in waterfall while i was downtown.

Koi (pronounced koy) or more specifically nishikigoi literally means “brocaded carp".
Koi are ornamental varieties of the common carp that were domesticated and bred starting in the 1820s and are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor ponds and water gardens. They are also sometimes called Japanese carp.

Koi can be very expensive, some special Koi can be well into the thousands of dollars.

Koi are very popular in Japan because they are a symbol of love and friendship.

Although a variety of colors and color patterns have since been developed; the most common colors include white, black, red, yellow, blue, and cream. The most popular category of koi is the Gosanke, which is made up of the Kohaku, Taisho Sanshoku, and Showa Sanshoku varieties.

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