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Stairway To Heaven
Posted on March 10, 2016 Leave a Comment
Mending Achilles and Cape Palliser are not two things that should automatically go together. This stairway to Heaven has 250 nearly vertical steps leading to the lighthouse atop a rocky outpost at the southeastern corner of the North Island. New Zealand can boast some very rugged country and this is amongst it. Not hard to […]
Roast Dinner AGAIN!
Posted on March 8, 2016 Leave a Comment
Senior moments? Forgetful? Doing too many things at once? Who knows…but it wasn’t till after the post had gone up that I realised there was no artwork attached. All the effort those wonderful kids had gone to cooking us roast dinners, and I had not even included the very grateful empty plate with knife and fork […]
Smiles on Stems
Posted on February 24, 2016 2 Comments
Sunflowers are indeed an old-fashioned flower. But good things are timeless! The warmer days are coming and we eagerly plant our seeds knowing that Summer will bring with it a host of smiles on stems just as it did for generations before. My dad was telling me the other day how his mother planted a […]
Sunbathing Beauties
Posted on February 17, 2016 Leave a Comment
The warmth of the sun just oozes out of Sunflowers. It’s as if they are face forward and palms out sunbathing. Absorbing all those glorious rays and sharing them with us all in the sunburnt colours we love so much. Sharing the love! This study of three sunflowers is done in graphite and charcoal. Charcoal […]
Camping for Two
Posted on February 4, 2016 Leave a Comment
Sun beating down… My darling dearest asleep on a stretcher under the tree… Me lazily watching the breeze blow through the towels and togs (swimming gear) hung between the branches. Us all cooled down from a dip in the lake. Ah! Camping for two. Lake Rere Whakaaitu you are working for us!!!! #Grateful
All in a Vacuum
Posted on January 28, 2016 Leave a Comment
They’ve gone. After all the noise and activity of this Christmas holiday period they are gone. Within three days the nest was vacated. And I am all in a vacuum. But very grateful for those Boxing Day Sales that had each of them sent on their way with a new vacuum cleaner to start life […]
Video Fun!
Posted on January 20, 2016 2 Comments
Christmas break has been a fun time at our place. You’ve gotta love the ‘Great New Zealand Shut-Down’! Imagine a place where virtually the entire country shuts down and goes on holiday for a month over Christmas, New Year and on until school goes back after the Summer break. Pretty cool. huh?! Everyone enjoying the outdoors […]
Orthotics
Posted on December 10, 2015 Leave a Comment
The reducing of pain from a pair of good orthotics is a gift that brings enormous amounts of gratefulness from my body AND emotions. I confess to not always being the most patient of patients, so I am sure that this reduction in my pain will have spin-offs of gratitude from my family as well. To […]
Sunflowers
Posted on December 1, 2015 Leave a Comment
Having paid the bill, we were getting ready to leave the supermarket, … Him pushing the trolley of goodies for our weekend away… Me folding up the receipt into my pocket and putting cards away… Suddenly I dived off yelling that I would catch him up. My poor darling dearest is used to this bizarre behaviour, […]
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 […]
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