Voting is over

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

 A big swing to the right.

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

 

Spring colour

 Spring in the garden.

Mary Mary

 

Racy red

 

Helicopter flyover

 For a magazine photoshoot apparently.

Just two buds

 But they'll be pretty when they come out. 

Moody skies

 

Saddle Hill

 from Bush Road

Too rich for me

 I'll grow my own 🙃

Jonquils

 Past their best.

A view across Manakau Harbour

 From Devonport Naval Museum

Could it be...?

 

Chico Marx??

Anyone for chess?

 Outside the Davenport Naval Museum, Auckland.

Auckland CBD

 The Sky Tower in the centre.

Manukau Harbour

Taken from Weymouth.

 

Indoor transport

 Indoor transport at the airport when you can't get a wheelchair. 

A big spider

 Giant golden orb-weaving spider.

The hand belongs to a big 6 foot man.