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Perfect Green Orchids
Posted on October 1, 2015 Leave a Comment
It was the perfect way to say ‘Thank-You’, ‘We love you’, ‘We hope your new home turns out to be everything you desire’. Orchids. A whole array of them to choose from. We let her choose, so it would bring her the maximum amount of pleasure. True to form, she chose the only green orchid, […]
Wheelchairs
Posted on September 29, 2015 Leave a Comment
Plain and simple, I shouldn’t have done it! But I did and now it was biting me in the butt…literally 😦 Visits to the best chiropractor around had helped but it still wasn’t playing ball enough to allow me to get home. He had been suggesting it each day and i had been pushing the […]
Kereru and Wood Pigeons
Posted on September 10, 2015 Leave a Comment
Yes, the Maori name for New Zealand’s native Wood Pigeon is ‘Kereru’. This may seem like double the trouble to write, but we were seeing double that day. Not one, but two big fat Kereru no more than a metre above. Feeding as if there was no tomorrow, even though their rather rotund undercarriage suggested they […]
A Hand Up
Posted on September 8, 2015 Leave a Comment
Miserably cold and wet with a biting wind, he suggested we walked through the bush to escape the elements. The dog was keen with the bush idea. So he led and I followed. The trees did their job of protecting against wind and rain and it was a nice change of scenery from our normal […]
Thermos for Two
Posted on August 18, 2015 Leave a Comment
We were road-tripping again. Darby and Joan out on our own exploring. I’d packed a lunch with a thermos full of boiling water so we could make a cuppa along the way. Although the wind was pretty nippy, the sun was out with not a cloud in the sky at the White Pine Reserve in Awakeri, […]
Icicles Dripping Fun
Posted on July 16, 2015 Leave a Comment
Coming up last he spotted what we had all missed. A frozen moment in time hanging from a fallen log. Icicles clinging. Water suspended. Colours reflecting transparent. And the competition started. Trying to get the angle, the light, the wonder of it captured forever. Swapping places to see if we could do better than the […]
Daffodils in Winter
Posted on July 13, 2015 2 Comments
Christmas decorations seem to come out earlier and earlier each year. Hot cross buns stay later and daffodils arriving in stores early July? Personally, I don’t like it. Each of these traditional times is special in it’s own time and season. BUT… daffodils arriving for my birthday I can totally get into! A bunch blooming […]
The Familial Kookaburra
Posted on July 2, 2015 Leave a Comment
Living on a lifestyle block in Queensland full of gum and avocado trees, we got to see lots of Kookaburras right up close. Being a two storied house on a hill we virtually eyeballed each other all day long. And in that time, I learnt a lot. We had them coming on to the balcony […]
The Calling Card
Posted on July 1, 2015 Leave a Comment
Coming to, I was greeted with the sound of gentle dove coos. Laying there with eyes still closed just listening and drinking in the moment. I love doves. My dad built me an aviary when I was a girl and I had four white turtle doves. The bobbing and cooing are all tied up in […]
Smelling Divine!
Posted on June 30, 2015 Leave a Comment
I don’t think too often about God’s ability to smell. Do you? But he must… Otherwise  why do we have references to being a ‘soothing aroma’ to him? Or a ‘stench in his nostrils’? Some even say they have physically smelt the presence of God. I can’t claim that, but as I walked into the […]