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.
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 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!
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