New Zealand
Yesterday. Dawn. Nigel and I in the lounge, curtains still closed (it's winter here and it was a frosty morning). I glance up from my laptop and, lo and behold, the beige curtain is all pink! "Nigel" says I - "look out the window" so he pulls back the curtain and everything outside is suffused with pink!
I noticed a lovely July post by Mike Powell, and thought I'd share the link. The WP clipping thingy didn't include his photo so I looked for something green in my archive and found a head of green flowers that I took in 2023 in the herb garden at Dunedin Botanic Gardens (New Zealand). I... Continue Reading →
Photos taken by Nigel/me teamed with a poem written by one of my favourite Substack writers - Rev. Allison Burns-LaGreca, shared here with permission.
We drove to Roxburgh on 01 November to have a look around. My birthday, 31 October, was a lousy day weather-wise but the next day was lovely so we did my birthday drive then. This herd of placid white cattle and calves were in a roadside field and looked stunning! I hopped out and took... Continue Reading →
Nigel's garden has this area of coloured silver beet (chard) and the plants eventually put up flower stalks. They're hilarious! Colourful chunky stems, warped and sinuous, and tall. Today I took some photos and in this post I'm showing yellow silver beet - part of a larger patch with a variety of colours. It's just... Continue Reading →
A couple of years ago we visited Roxburgh (nearby town) and a lovely lady gave us a gorgeous iris - two actually - completely different types/colours. One's never re-surfaced but a few days ago this "strange" plant in our garden produced a blue bud and today I found the blue bud fully opened into this... Continue Reading →
Sharing with you these four photos of our native (endemic) Red Admiral butterfly that I took in our garden on 18 February 2025 (our summer). The butterfly was very wary of me, frequently leaving, circling and re-alighting. Tapanui, West Otago. New Zealand
I was in the kitchen early evening today, feeling grumpy about our cold, gray, rainy day. I had the venetian blind to the east closed to block out the gloom. A big machine was making a lot of noise somewhere near - the sound was so irritating! I stalked over to the blind, jerking it... Continue Reading →
We had a beautiful, blue sky, sunny, spring day today. In the late afternoon we were driving back home through West Otago farmland when the west-face of this hedge got my attention with its striped appearance. Some kind of golden cypress interplanted with blue-foliage trees. New Zealand
