From 1979: And Then You Run Across Something So Awesome, Even I Am Rendered Speechless.

It's a home movie!

It's an official PSA film for the California Highway Patrol! (That's right, where Ponch and John worked!)

It's...I have no words for how this incarnates everything I love about Vintage.

In a word, it's awesome.

(And I think we have a rumaki sighting, folks! Pardon me, I have to go take a couple of belts of somethingorother to come down from the high this clip gives me.)

Mokulele

My guess is that this is from the early 1950s. The plane looks like a Boeing 707.

Ornate Roadside Memorial Amid Volcanic Rock, Big Island

Photo by Laura Linger, © 2008

Koi At A Small Waterfall, Kona

I like this photo because it captures movement: of the fish swimming, of the water crashing down on the rocks into the pool, of the palm fronds swaying in the cool breeze.

Photo by Laura Linger, © 2008

Limpets, Ho'okena Bay, The Big Island

Photo by Laura Linger, © 2008