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Signed, Sealed and Delivered
Posted on September 8, 2016 Leave a Comment
“Here! Here!,” I cried. As he pulled the car over I was frantically pulling out the big lens and trying to attach it, not wanting to miss a one. (Not that I needed any more as I have so many photos from our visit to Cape Palliser. But those were little babies and these much […]
Vistas of Beauty
Posted on September 7, 2016 Leave a Comment
Fresh dumps of snow brought up from the Antartic region were our total delight as we traveled the Kaikoura coastline. As the road hugs the shore you have waves thundering in on one side and snow almost meeting you on the other. What a picture! While taking lots of photos for records I was trying […]
Operation ‘Father’s Day’
Posted on September 5, 2016 Leave a Comment
Coming in tired after a long day at work he almost missed Son #2 coming in behind him. We laughed about how far son had walked to be here (4hr car ride but no car in sight). My darling dearest took it all at face value and suspected nothing more. We grinned. Putting down his heavy […]
Sunrise
Posted on September 1, 2016 Leave a Comment
A good night’s sleep had improved my motion sickness immensely. Oh, how grateful I was! (Here’s a link for that story 😦 )And now before us lay two weeks of South Island adventure. Pretty excited is probably an understatement 🙂 Drawing back the curtains in our apartment had me immediately oh-ing and ah-ing and racing […]
Intimacies With Another
Posted on August 31, 2016 Leave a Comment
Though it wasn’t as rough as on the day the Wahine went down, nor the last time we had crossed between the North and South Islands of our beautiful New Zealand, it was still far from calm. I tried so hard to keep it together…looking out the window, taking my jacket off to stay cooler, […]
Painting Moments
Posted on August 30, 2016 2 Comments
All lined up waiting in your queue for the boarding call…what to do? Sketch! Cars all sitting nicely still in rows while I look at perspective and ratios. Little water jars sitting serenely on the dashboard awaiting my brush. No hurry. “Keep it loose”, she had said. I try. My darling dearest with eyes closed […]
Acquiesced to My Request
Posted on August 29, 2016 2 Comments
I love the dictionary meaning of this word… ACQUIESCE: (simple definition) to accept, agree, or allow something to happen by staying silent or by not arguing (intransitive verb) to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively …and that is exactly what my darling dearest did when we arrived in Wellington with an hour to spare. He kindly […]
Whanganui Detours
Posted on August 25, 2016 Leave a Comment
The Desert Rd was closed due to all that wonderful snow that had been sent at my request. So, around the western side of the mountains we went enjoying places we had picnicked at during the Summer months now all covered in freezing white.We drove past trees packed with fresh snow driven against one side. […]
An Udder Story
Posted on August 2, 2016 Leave a Comment
Since we have been gone from New Zealand, small town New Zealand has gone through a make-over which is absolutely delightful. All these little towns doing something comical and quirky to show their particular flavour to the world. And the town of Bulls is no exception. On the road into town there is a sign […]
Keeping it all together
Posted on June 29, 2016 2 Comments
We had taken so long to organise ourselves to get ready that I chose not to go back for my gloves…bad mistake right there! By the time we had biked into town on a dreary cold Taupo winter morning our fingers were bitter cold. So, after our jobs were done we popped into the bike […]
Lynda Symons Artistry 