Daily photo #11

Here's another of our town sculptures. Every time I walk past this there is someone taking a photo of it!

Kids


 

Daily Photo #10

Another town sculpture. This one is dedicated to the pioneer women who lived here in the early days.

 

Sunday Morning Bath

 

Daily Photo #9

Scenes from today's walk along the estuary:

Manu at Athenree


 

Daily Photo #8

Oops! No post yesterday; too much family stuff happening.

I live in a small rural town, which is surrounded by dairy farms and orchards - kiwifruit and avocados. It's not your normal small town, though, because there is a goldmine, opencast as well as underground, right smack in the middle of it. For this reason, we have a large number of tourists who visit to see the mine and all of the apparatus that goes with it.

There are a number of structures and sculptures to be seen, and today's photo is one of them. It depicts a miner and a lump of gold-bearing (perhaps) rock.

 

The Miner

Daily Photo #7

This evening, an amazing sunset:

Colour in the sky

 

Daily Photo #6

Sammy the cat, looking grumpily through a branch

Family

 

Daily Photo #5

Another shot from Monday's walk.  (Blogger always puts yesterday at the top of my posts. We're way ahead of you, Blogger!)

Reflections and Ripples


 

Daily Photo #4

It's an extremely hot and humid day - enervating. So here's a nice cool winter photo:

Tanner's Point, mid-winter 

 

Daily Photo #3

Manu, enjoying this morning's walk. He is 13 now, but still very fit and happy. If for any reason a day goes past without a walk, I am quickly made to feel very guilty.

Waitete Stream track

Daily Photo #2

From our house we can see the cyclists heading along the Cycle Trail which runs from our town through a river gorge to the next small town, about 25 kilometres away, and from there branches out to other trails which lead further afield. It is usually called the 'rail trail' hereabouts, because it starts at the old railway station and follows the track for a kilometre or so, before keeping to one side of the river the rest of the way. It is an "easy" trail as New Zealand bike trails go, and is much used, especially in the warmer months.

Today I walked along it for a while and took a few photos. Strictly speaking, dogs are not allowed, even on a leash, but Manu came too.

 Foot/bike bridge over the river

We haven't had much rain lately...

Daily photo #1

In an endeavour to make myself start posting on here again, I intend to post a photo every day for a month - and if I manage that, I will carry on longer.
It would be good to have a photo taken on the day, but that won't always be possible. However, they will all be shots I've taken myself.

This was what I saw when I opened my bedroom curtains this morning:

Dawn over the back fence