HECO finds out whether there's no such thing as bad publicity, plus the usual flowers.

Hah! Now the nation and the world know how bad Hawaiian Electric's service is. Maybe they'll ask for a bailout, like the automakers, since producing a defective product seems to be a requirement, not a handicap, in that regard.

High above the world where power supply matters, I found these voluptuous lehua blossoms on a little shrub about 2 feet high, in the windswept scrub at 6900':

And in keeping with our theme of native Hawaiian plants having small flowers, here's pukiawe: