Hawaii Story Blog

"Trees shade its walls from the heat of noonday; its ample gardens are filled with the choicest flowers and shrubs; it is, in fact, just what it appears, a choice tropical retreat in the midst of the chief city of the Hawaiian Islands."

I picked this as my favorite sentence in the reading because of the imagery that is described.  By the way she describes her home, you can almost actually imagine the beauty of her home.  When she calls it a choice tropical retreat, it sounds like an amazing place within a more hectic area.