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Tag Archives: Nature

Bountiful winter food

28 Tuesday May 2013

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We are now really into the wintery months and that means warm fires and hot soups. These are some images from a recent harvest festival I attended. A harvest festival is an annual celebration that occurs around the time of the main harvest of a given region. Harvest festivals typically feature feasting, both family and public, with foods that are drawn from crops that come to maturity around the time of the festival. Ample food and freedom from the necessity to work in the fields are two central features of harvest festivals: eating, merriment, contests, music and romance are common features of harvest festivals around the world. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_festival

Harvest Festival 2013
Botanic Garden Harvest Festival 2013

Loving autumn…

10 Friday May 2013

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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The fantail
Its a toadstall thing
Cleopatra's winter feast
Spot the spider

The dappa fella

09 Thursday May 2013

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Bart: How come Lisa gets a pony?

Homer: Because she stopped loving me.

Bart: I don’t love you either, so give me a moped.

Homer: And I know you love me, so you don’t get squat.

Ref: http://www.imdb.com

Waitaere visit May 2013
Waitaere visit May 2013

 

Colours and textures of Autumn

09 Thursday May 2013

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I love autumn. It is full of extremes – vibrant colour, textures, changing weather, warm days, cold days, wet and dry days. It makes me pause and think of life and the preciousness of living…

Colours and textures of autumn
Colours and textures of autumn
Colours and textures of autumn

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The keyboard

15 Monday Apr 2013

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05Mar2013_2764a 05Mar2013_2743a Clearly I had a bit of time on my hands…

Colours of a cemetery

05 Friday Apr 2013

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Bolton Street Cemetery 2013
Bolton Street Cemetery 2013
Bolton Street Cemetery 2013
Bolton Street Cemetery 2013

A walk on a beautiful Autumn day in Bolton Street Cemetery.

An old cemetery has so many stories to whisper.                                                      Listen and you will hear.                                                                                             Open your eyes and you will see.

Lit up seaweed

21 Wednesday Nov 2012

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I was pleasantly surprised at how this photo turned out of the sunlight playing on the incoming tide and this piece of seaweed during a seaside visit with my boys to Whitirea Park last week. I thought I would enhance the image, but still prefer the original.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Cyril Connolly


Pauatahanui Lamb & Calf Day 2012

17 Saturday Nov 2012

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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir

http://www.pauatahanui.school.nz/

The Weta

06 Tuesday Nov 2012

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After minding their own business all winter, a family of weta were inadvertently disturbed when we opened the outdoor umbrella for the first time since last summer. The weta family have now been transferred to a more permanent home in amongst wood and undergrowth.

“Weta are incredible looking creatures. They range in size, but with their big bodies, spiny legs, and curved tusks, they are one of New Zealand’s most recognisable creepy-crawlies.” http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/native-animals/invertebrates/weta/



The giving egg

02 Friday Nov 2012

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg.  We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

C. S. Lewis



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