I took a new point and shoot camera to Hawaii. It's at Panasonic Lumix and I love it. That said, taking a video with it is not intuitive, at least to me. And downloading the videos from my camera onto a mac was cryptic. But I did, finally, figure it out. Here are the three videos I took on Kauai, stitched together with iMovie.

The first minute or more is from the Spouting Horn, near Poipu. You see the waves rolling in and out, and then you see a bit of the spouting. Then there is a very short bit of Karen hiking up on the Alakai Swamp trail. This is a harder hike than it looks like – although we all made it so how hard can it be :-). The last bit of the video is from one of the many lovely overlooks from the Alakai Swamp trail. This is a hike that many, many Hawaiians have never seen. It's worth the effort.

My new camera takes a very good video. If I had figured it out sooner, I'd have taken more movies. But then I might have turned into that person who shows more vacation videos than the normal person wants to see.

In other news, I leave in the morning to teach for the Cotton Patch Quilters in Athens, GA, and then on to The Smoky Mountain Quilter's Guild in Franklin, NC. I hope to find time to post – if not here, on facebook.