Because I forgot.

 Halloween is over and I meant to post this - and forgot. We had no visitors on the night, we're not on the city's register of houses to visit.

A cold front coming in

 

Sunrise today

 

Potted spring

 

Kaka Point lighthouse

 

High afternoon tea

 After church, high tea for the ladies.

Tea and a murder mystery.

 It's been that sort of a day.

Pilates anyone?

 This sign made me smile.

On strike.

 Teachers, doctors and nurses are all out on strike today. This is one of the buses transporting hospital staff to wherever they were going to protest. 

Christmas bling

 I know I'm early but I love all the hooplah that goes with the lead up to Christmas. And it is only 66 days away. That's not long.

Faded and windblown

but still a pop of colour on a grey day.

Rural Otago

 

This sign caught my eye

 In a local supermarket.

Reaching for the sun

 Arum lillies 

Its almost time...

 

...to crank up the barbie.

Barbies galore at a local hardware store.

Cool cats

 

Voting is over

 Provisionals are in and we have a new mayor and a new look council.

 A big swing to the right.

Christmas gnome

 Nisse

Dunedin fire station

 

Clematis in the treetop

 

True

 in my case anyway

Mama swan and her cygnets

 Lake Waihola

The hives have gone

 but the bees were very busy in March.

Hardware shopping

 

Takeaways anyone

 We had the chicken for tea one evening while in Auckland.

Posh china tea trolley

 

It looks dead

 but is covered in fat green buds waiting to burst into leaf.

One pot meal

 For Friday Light outreach

It's a nippy morning.

 

A kiwi garden

Flax, cabbage tree and grasses.

 New Zealand natives with a couple of exotics thrown in for good measure. 

Musical instruments.

 Both used at a retreat on Saturday.

A cuppa on the deck

 

Already??

 Three months today until Christmas 

Fish head

 Dished up for dinner when we were out recently. It was quite large and there was enough for four adults to have a taste.

Bio security check

 of the feijoa tree

A canopy of pink

Flowering cherry. 

I wandered lonely as a cloud...

 

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

William Wordsworth

Swimming upstream

 on a rainy day

I like this idea

 

Small car parking

A lonely bud

On a big rhododendron bush.

Follow the leader

 

Purple ribbons

 Seen on a fence recently. 

Awareness of domestic violence.

Blooming pretty

 

Silver teapots

 

A walk in the park

 

Spring planter box

 

Happy Father's Day