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

 

 

Another year underway

 

Bush Road

Entering town

and leaving.

 

Ninja

 Waiting to be found and relocated.

Karaoke after dinner