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Coffee Dates with Pansies
Posted on November 12, 2015 Leave a Comment
She had asked me to come for coffee to her favourite cafe. I was there a couple of minutes early and so was waiting outside to meet up…why go inside when the sun was beaming down outside, right?! With all the warmth of spring their little pots adorning the door and windowsill were blooming gorgeous […]
Honoured
Posted on October 19, 2015 Leave a Comment
The 2015 Active Arts Taupo’s 50th Annual Exhibition opened on Friday amidst lots of gold glitter and celebrations. Celebrating not only another year but 50 great years encouraging creativity here in Taupo, New Zealand. During the course of the evening the winners of each division were honoured for their work. I was honoured for my entry […]
Touches of Rosemary
Posted on October 8, 2015 Leave a Comment
When your 24 year old son offers to cook you a roast, you accept. All afternoon we had been smelling those scrumptious odours…tantalizing! He even made the gravy himself using all the juices from the bottom of the pan…Mama taught him good! The call went out that dinner was ready and we were all scurrying […]
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, […]
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 […]
Lemon Fruit Triplet
Posted on August 19, 2015 2 Comments
I LOVE lemons! From their vibrant yellow to the refreshing tang, I just love lemons. In fact, every morning I start with a warm freshly squeezed lemon drink. Then lunchtime sees me squeezing lemon juice over my salad…my all-time favourite dressing. Where ever we live my garden always has a lemon tree. It’s one of the happiest […]
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 […]
Palette Knife Paintings
Posted on July 15, 2015 Leave a Comment
You just get one go. No going back over it. No trying to fix this bit or change that. Just ONE go. Think it through…colours…order of colours on the knife…light, shadows, … Play it through in your mind Visualise the paint flowing off that knife One swish across the canvas and voilà! You’re done! That’s […]
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 […]
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