Friday, November 30, 2012

Flying into Summer

December 1st - officially our first day of summer. 
The dog and I went to a beach to look for birds to post on Carmi's Fly theme, 
but the tide was full and there were no waders around...


 There were some high fliers overhead





Of course, we still managed to enjoy our walk greatly. 
It was a beautiful, still morning





Driving away I spotted this blue heron, but when he took off 
he was lost into the trees before I could manage a decent shot...



"birds that rose and fell in the sky, like supplementary 
breathings of the tide"

~Janet Frame: 'The Edge of the Alphabet'

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Better Late than Gone Forever....

Okay so by the time anybody sees this Carmi will probably have posted a new theme 
and no one will in fact see this...

But anyway, here are my "Somewhat worse for wear" shots for Thematic Photographic 219. ( My only excuse is, we move house next Saturday. And Mr A is sick. And school is frenetic...)

There used to be a goldmine pumphouse here:



and there used to be a bridge here....




There used to be mine shafts here...



and there used to be a house up there, before the Christchurch earthquakes...



and there used to be a family here...


Friday, November 2, 2012

Random niceness

Saturday morning.

No school.

I walk down to the gate to get the newspaper, 
which, as it is the weekend edition with about thirty sections, is folded in half in the box.

As I walk back up the drive I open it up, and find:



What made the surprise even nicer was how carefully the little bunch was arranged - they weren't just stuck in any which way, but painstakingly arranged so that they formed a little posy:



As far as I am aware, I don't know the person who delivers our paper, 
but he/she certainly put a smile on my face this morning!


No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
                                                                                                     ~ Aesop