A rainbow lights up the Hawaii Island sky. (Travis Craig/Community Contributor)

PITTSBURGH — Every cloud has a silver lining, right?

A honu crawls on to the sand at Puako. (John Steenhuis/Community Contributor)

Gardening’s popularity has surged during the coronavirus pandemic; it provides exercise, outdoor time, emotional well-being and wholesome produce. Home gardening also can provide some hunger relief to others during a time of rising food insecurity.

Weed is a four-letter word much like other four-letter words that we should be careful not to use such as ‘ugly’ and the F bomb. A weed may be defined as any plant growing in the wrong place. Perhaps an even better definition is “a weed is a plant for which we haven’t found value.”

Bisgard and Nakamura receive FOLK scholarship

A surfer takes the last wave of the day at Kohanaiki Beach, also known as Pine Trees. (John Steenhuis/Community Contributor)

Nothing compares to the slippery silkiness of handmade noodles. Freshly rolled and cut wheat flour dough strikes the ideal balance between tender and chewy. In Cantonese, there’s a word for that noodle perfection — ngun — that’s as hard to translate as it is to pronounce if you’re not a native speaker. It’s not exactly al dente because there’s no bite in the center, but that’s the closest approximation.

A rainbow is seen behind a papaya tree in Kailua-Kona on Sunday. (Reiko Sekine/Community Contributor)

A red-white-and-blue bouquet of hibiscus and iliee (also know as plumbago) created in honor of Memorial Day. (Joan Bovee/Community Contributor)

NASA’s newest test pilots are veteran astronauts, friends