This afternoon I take off from Auckland airport to begin my retirement present to myself -
10 weeks in Morocco and Europe.
I won't be on here for a while - I hope you all keep well and enjoy whatever season you are having.
dreaming of open seas
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Monday, March 30, 2015
Please be seated - Thematic Photographic 331
This week Carmi is extending an invitation to us to take a chair. See other people's ideas here.
I found this rare bird sitting comfortably at the Auckland Botanical Gardens.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing,
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
~ Zenrin Kushu
Monday, March 16, 2015
Bodies of Water - TP 329
Serendipitous Thematic Photographic!
On Sunday and Monday the eastern coasts of New Zealand were visited by the remnants of tropical cyclone Pam, which earlier caused huge damage and a number of deaths in Vanuatu and nearby islands. (See here)
Where I live we had a lot of rain but luckily, not the damaging winds we had been promised.
This morning I got up and drove out to the beach before dawn, to see if I could get some shots of the sunrise, and of the big surf which is always a legacy of easterly storms. The surf doesn't look very big in these - the scale is deceptive.
Here are some of the photos I took:
See some other bodies of water at Written.Inc
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Hit the Road: TP 328
I love a road trip, but I haven't taken many recently - sadly! Just one short one,
which I've already posted a road pic from.
Taken from the top of the Manukau Heads Lighthouse, it is evidence of our ongoing drought:
Here are some favourite road shots from the archives:
On the road to Whanganui. It'll be at least another month before the leaves are this colour -
South Island road trip in 2013 -
This is the road I drive when I head west out of our town -
You won't get far on this road!
See how others are hitting the road over here, at Written.Inc
Hopeless Wanderer....
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Road Trip to the Wild West (Part 2)
In the first post (see here), I talked about a trip to see a lighthouse on a cloudy summer day.
Later I met these guys, holding a meeting:
And this bunch:
These two had other fish to fry:
What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
~ David Attenborough
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