Feeling blessed.

 Picked fresh from friends gardens and given to us. 

We'd already cooked and eaten some when I thought to take a photo. 

A view down the harbour

 

At the gardens

 

Bay windows

 

Fresh from the orchard

 

Waving goodbye

 

Dogs and bowls

 

Big sky day

 

A kitchen garden

 

Great food

 Golden Harvest, Dunedin

St Clair beach at high tide

 

The road home

 

Colourful gladdies

 Gladioli

South D mural

 Why are our Wetlands so important?

Wetlands store carbon & absorb pollutants.

St Clair, Dunedin, NZ

 

Books galore

 

Refreshing the sign

 At Pizza Hut

Toast'D

 A local sandwich bar.

A view from the boardroom

 

Drain problems

They’ve landed

 

Summer colour

 

Sunset

 

A lush border

 

A giant thistle

 In the Memorial Gardens

A poem

There's an eerie woosh

and a wood pigeon plumps

down into a kowhai.

It sits there pleased

and with red rimmed eyes,

judges our intentions. 

It's small head a cork 

perched on a jug.

excerpt from a poem by Kay McKenzie Cooke.

Pea, pie, (s)pud

 

Baldwin Street, Dunedin, NZ

The world's steepest street.

 

Building maintenance

St Michael's Orthodox Church

in an old part of the city.

 

The pub on the corner

Now known as Crofters Arms has had several incarnations since the days it was known locally as The Flying Jug.

Gateway to the floodbank

 Early evening 

Wildflowers along the floodbank.

 

Winter fuel

 

Pine Hill

 Looking north

A pleasant spot to take a break

 

Gabriel Read memorial

In 1861 Gabriel Read found gold near the Tuapeka River and triggered the  Otago, NZ gold rush.

 

Rest area

 

The old and the new

 Beaumont Bridge(s).

Full moon

 

Through a bedroom window.

Pretty in a pot

 

Neighbourhood pantry

 Outside the church.

Teamwork

 

Gym time

 

Centre piece

 

Bright and beautiful

 

Thunder clouds

and hay bales