National Pie Day a reason to indulge

National Pie Day provided an excuse for a feeding frenzy at the Star-Advertiser offices, with the sharing of pies, both homemade and purchased. As you can see, some pies were more popular than others, like peanut butter crunch, and actually, the savory chicken pot pies and quiche, rather than dessert pies.

Rainbow over Honolulu

While moving my car in the middle of the work day, I spotted a low rainbow over Honolulu.

Hanging with girls' best friends

At a De Beers and Maria Canale for Forevermark diamond master class at Neiman Marcus, learned how a diamond goes from mines to sorting to finished product. It was amazing to handle a fistful of the rough stones, and trying to imagine what they might become.

From this ...

... to this.

Rainy day pointillism

Pointillism effect created by points of light broken up by raindrops on the windshield of my car while driving home on a rainy day.

Christmas, Hawaii-style

Honolulu Hale dressed up for Christmas, including traditional and palm trees, and several decorated trees on exhibit inside the building, including a Dr. Suess tree.

Celeb in the house

Actor/comedian Tim Meadows was at the Trump at Spa Waikiki's holiday open house.

Hawaii's culinary Rising Stars

At Halekulani Hotel, Hawaii's 14 Rising Stars chefs, as named by StarChefs.com, shared the stage with their mentors, and plated up some of the dishes that put them at the top.