Pouring My Art Out

The sun sets on Maui… part 1…

Posted on July 10, 2014 by pouringmyartout

Well, this is it… the end of an era…

Or at least the end of the pictures of our 25th anniversary-second honeymoon on Maui…

Well except for a roll of pictures of a sea turtle I swam with, taken with a cheap, disposable underwater camera before I borrowed the cool Go Pro camera from Kirk… which I still have not taken to be developed… because that is just so last century… oh, and some videos I took with the Go Pro that I haven’t figured out how to get on the blog… because I am a computer moron.

These are just random sunset pictures, mostly taken from the beach at our hotel.

I hope you have enjoyed the last month or so. I know I showed you a lot of pictures of jungle and animals and volcanoes and beaches and fish and stuff. But I tried to put a spin on it… you know, like I do… so it wasn’t just like looking at somebody’s vacation pictures… even though that is exactly what it was.

At least I tried to make it seem like you were looking at endless vacation photos being narrated by a stand up comedian.

Maybe you learned something about Maui, or was reminded of a time you went there.

Maybe you got some good ideas of fun things to do next time you travel.

Or maybe I am just kidding myself.

Either way, I do appreciate you letting me share this with you. Because it let me relive the experience. And now it is here… more or less forever… so future generations of little people with my genes running around inside them can look at it…

… and wonder what the hell was wrong with their great grandpa…

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Well, I have almost reached the end of the photos from our second honeymoon on Maui…

Posted on July 10, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I hope you have enjoyed sharing the adventures of yours truly, my lovely wife… (once again, honey, I know you do not want to be shown on my blog, and I apologize profusely for violating your privacy this way, but look at you… you are gorgeous, and I am so proud to be married to you), my wife’s sister, and her husband. Thanks again, guys, for all you did to make our trip special.

After that magic night where we renewed our vows on the beach, we went to a very fancy restaurant and ate a very fancy meal and drank some very fancy drinks…

The food was spectacular, as was the view, and the dessert was a work of art…

I think that says: ‘Happy Anniversary’… in Hawaiian… but I was pretty hammered by that time.

Kirk, my brother-in-law, took these pictures of that tiki guy in Lahaina as he carved the date on the bottom of the tiki we bought, earlier on our anniversary day.

That guy was really good. I may need to steal some of his ideas and carve a few more tikis myself.

I could have stood there all day and watched him work.

Seriously, if you ever end up on Maui, stay at the Mauian… it is freekin’ awesome.

And go to a luau… you will not regret it.

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It’s all about me… (and I am for the birds)… Part 5…

Posted on July 8, 2014 by pouringmyartout

So I met some awesome birds when we were on Maui for our second honeymoon.

There was this cool little pet shop in Lahaina town, and the lady let me play with my new friends.

She was surprised that all the birds liked me… but I wasn’t…

Because dogs and babies love me… (remember, do not trust anybody that dogs and babies do not like)… and so do horses and, it turns out, birds.

Man, that was so much fun.

I could have stayed there all day.

Hey, watch those claws, buddy.

Bird-brains of a feather, flocking together.

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It’s all about me… part 4…

Posted on July 8, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I like the fact that my wife’s sister’s husband took pictures of me while I was taking pictures of other things… like that volcano. That right there is me, taking pictures of the crater of a volcano on Maui, just so I could post the picture for you here on my blog. That is me doing nice stuff for you.

Cropping my wife out of these pictures was hard… no, not emotionally… you know I am too self-centered for that… I mean it was hard to cut her out and still leave a good picture of me… see, you can still see some of her hair blowing in on the right of the photo… but if I had cut any more off, I would have had to cut off some of my own face.

I mean, it is too bad you can’t see my wife. She is awesome.

But that’s the way she wants it… so you get to look at a bunch of pictures of our second honeymoon on Maui that make it look like I went there all by myself.

Kirk, my brother-in-law, has an awesome camera. Most of the shots I have been doing for this series are pictures he took. He got a really good view of the inside of the crater of the volcano when the wind lifted the clouds for a moment…

But you know what is missing from those two pictures…

ME!

Oh yeah… that’s much better.

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It’s all about me… part 3…

Posted on July 7, 2014 by pouringmyartout

Hey now… don’t be lookin’ at these out of order, Mr. Johnny-come-lately-pants!

Yes, I know it is a picture of an incredibly handsome man with huge feet in front of a gorgeous sunset on the island of Maui… I know all this because that handsome devil is me… hence the clever name of these posts… which you have to look at in order…

Okay, I don’t look quite as good when I am not backlit by a tropical sunset, but it could be worse.

That is a picture of me standing next to my lovely wife… who doesn’t want to be in my blog… so I cropped her out. That picture was taken on the top of a volcano.

And so was that one, but I know how much Trent likes it when I wear my shades… oh, yeah. (Trent is my official head minion on this blog, for those of you who are not aware of that rather disturbing fact)…

Whoops… I tried to crop my wife out of this picture too… but I just noticed that I left her hand in the picture… right by my crotch… which will probably get my PG rating changed… hey… don’t judge us… we were on our second honeymoon!

I feel bad for cutting her out of the pictures. But hey, she wants it that way. But just look how sad I am without her in that picture up there…

Here we are having fun at a luau… no… that isn’t her at the table behind me… that is somebody else’s wife, I guess.

There we are in the little town of Lahaina. My wife likes to snuggle so close to me that I had to cut part of myself out of that picture.

And, once more, there we are on the top of the volcano. That was the only time on the whole trip I wore that coat. But I am glad I had it that day.

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It’s all about me… part 2…

Posted on July 7, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I met some nice people on Maui, and made some new friends… like that guy that I met outside the winery we visited. I think he really liked my stories.

I made friends with a nice goat…

And then I made friends with another nice goat. I like that picture. I don’t even know who took it, but you can see that I am taking a picture of the goat while somebody took that picture of me.

That is a very serious picture of me… or a picture of a very serious me… at that fancy ‘Mama’s Fish House’ restaurant. You can tell it is a fancy place to eat, because I am holding a warm washcloth in my hand. They give you a moist little towel to clean yourself up with.

Okay, I have no idea what I am doing there, but I seem to be pointing at something exciting.

I guess whatever it was went away.

There I am getting ready to smoke a cigarette… one of the loneliest things a person can do… good thing I love hanging out with me.

And there I am driving the monster puke-green Mustang… I really miss that car.

Just so you know, I didn’t even drink anything at the winery. I am not a big fan of wine. But I can fake being drunk with the best of them.

Posted in My travels, Pictures of me, Stories of my life | Tagged cars, current-events, drinking, hawaii, honeymoon, humor, maui, photography, social-media, travel, winery | 34 Comments

It’s all about me… part 1

Posted on July 7, 2014 by pouringmyartout

My motto is: I before we, except after me…

Even the crack squirrels in my head can’t get me to stop thinking about myself. I am just that self-centered. We are getting close to the end of the pictures of our second honeymoon on Maui. So I am warning you right now. I am going to do a lot of posts today.

And they are all going to be pictures of me.

I have selfies.

I have pictures my wife took of me.

I have pictures my wife’s sister’s husband took of me.

And since my wife doesn’t want to be in my blog, I am going to resort to something drastic. You may remember that I was trying to cover her up with funny pictures or by coloring over her and making her look like a cartoon character. To save time, I am going to just crop her out of some of these.

I will try to limit the amount of words I type between the pictures to make this easy for you… but that part is sort of up to the crack squirrels in my head.

And now, pictures of me snorkeling on a reef in Maui, taken by my lovely wife…

Oh, yeah…

Check out those huge, wrinkly feet…

That must have been the day that I didn’t wear swim fins because the fins had rubbed holes in the top of my feet. Fortunately, with size 15 feet, fins are not really necessary.

That ain’t a good look for me…

Okay, I think I took that picture. My wife wasn’t riding me around like a sea horse.

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The cleaner wrasse fish… part 2…

Posted on July 7, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I know, I already told you about the cleaner wrasse, the cute little fish that cleans algae and other marine growths off of other fish on the reefs around Maui.