[Leica] Memorial

[Peter Klein]

While we were waiting in line for dinner at a restaurant on Maui, three 
rather drunk girls joined the queue. They were all wearing flower leis 
that they had acquired while bar-hopping. One of them took off her lei, 
put it around my wife's neck and hugged her. "It looks so good on you, 
she said. Oooo-kay. The cashier, a native Hawaiian woman, saw all this. 
She later told us that they have a tradition--after you are done wearing 
a lei, you cut the string and throw the flowers into the sea one by one. 
With each flower, you think of someone you have loved and lost. As we 
are of the age where many relatives and dear friends have passed on, 
this struck a chord. We later did as she suggested, on a "black beach" 
made of lava sand. So a strange incident led to something meaningful.

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Olympus E-M1 Mark II and Panasonic 14-45 f/3.5-5.6.

--Peter