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Wearing o' the Green on the Big Island of Hawaii

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Real Estate Agent with Hawaii Life Real Estate Brokers Big Island

Here on the Big Island of Hawai'i, we are more likely to make a big deal about Chinese New Year, May Day - Lei Day, or even Prince Kuhio Day, than to notice St Patrick's Day.  However, I could use a little luck of the Irish as I make my daily short sale calls, and my clients and I prepare for the upcoming Kolea (Waikoloa Beach Resort) auctions and foreclosure bidding wars.  So I thought I'd inspire myself today with the ways we "wear green" in Hawai'i.

Molokai Pa'u Riders at King Kamehameha Parade

As a horsewoman, one of my "bucket list" dreams is to be a pa'u rider in the Kamehameha Day parade. This requires not only a bomb-proof horse confident with crowds and a rider whose skirt made of 17' of fabric is blowing in the wind, but requires the rider to collect flowers and make a lei for the horse as well as herself.  The princesses riding for each island wear traditional colors and flowers - and the riders for Molokai wear green.

Plantation-style cottage painted green

Plantation style cottage on 29 acres is paintd a very traditional green (MLS 241049)  and is off-grid green living as well!

Green is also a very traditional color for a plantation-style home.  In fact, my color chips show a color called "Waimea Green".  And many of our newer homes in the rural North Kohala towns of Hawi and Kapaau offer green living: photovoltaic systems and windmills to provide electricity, ag water systems to grow crops, and a sensitivity to living in harmony with the land.

I'll be on the lookout for the menehune - um I mean leprechaun's!- as I go about my day.  Happy St Patrick's Day!

Comments (1)

Terrie Leighton
Ferrari-Lund Real Estate - Reno, NV
Reno Real Estate Agent ~ Selling Homes in Reno

Well the Big Island in Hawaii may let St. Patricks day go unnoticed but you are right, they celebrate in many ways with the color green! May you receive a little big of luck bidding on a few homes today!

Mar 17, 2011 09:04 AM