Best Buy

What Hawaii does supremely well is rainbows. Where else would I find myself standing in the parking lot of the Best Buy staring up at the mountain range mauka, gobsmacked by the beauty of the sky? The mountains ewa are softened by huge black clouds that segue into rain; to the east the green ridges glow before bright white cumulus in peacock blue sky. The evening's rainbow arcs high and thin, in soft pastel shades, embracing land and sea in a gentle baroque accord.

This morning's rainbow was much more Sturm und Drang - a jagged neon rocket thrust from the ocean into the clouds, wide and commanding, a deafening fanfare of colors.