Hilo Daily Image
18 December 2015
I was poking around in the zen garden and saw some potential kukui blossom shots. But there was too much wind for that.
I noticed white material on the trunk and what I thought was a drop of water. To the naked eye it looked interesting. So I went back inside and mounted the closeup lens.
I'm not sure what this is. At first I thought it was water, but now I'm thinking it's sap or exudate from something living on the kukui.
This is considerably cropped -- I couldn't get as close as I wanted to and still maintain focus. The wind was moving the trunk slightly.