So I went to Hawaii and got almost no knitting done. So much for my big plans to finish my new shawl. Can you tell I’m not sorry?

Here is my one-and-only Gratuitous Photo of Yarn, taken at Java on the Rock, a great coffee house in Kona.

Maybe I didn’t knit much, but I did drink coffee–at least three times a day.

We took a tour of the coffee plantation at Greenwell Farms, where I found out that coffee blossoms smell like gardenias.

Coffee trees are past their peak after 35 or 40 years, but the folks at Greenwell have preserved some of the original coffee trees planted by the owner’s great-grandmother. These are 113 year-old trees, each still producing a handful of beans.

Wait! How did these sushi chefs get into my post about coffee?

Never mind. It was really good sushi.

Back to the quest for coffee: this friendly creature is from The Coffee Shack, a sweet little place near Captain Cook. They had Macadamia nut pies, tasty scones, and delicious Kona coffee.