Henderson House, Alexandra, Central Otago
This photo is a bit more than a year old. These taps stuck
out of the house that I was living in at that time.
Invercargill 2
Another photo from my time in Invercargill.
Even though I lived near this swan it took me a
couple of months to really notice it.
It is about three stories up, perhaps two.
Invercargill
This afternoon I have had an opportunity to fossick around
in my computer.
My main computer is now a Mac but I have only recently, well
within the last two years anyway, changed over from PC. The PC
files have been transfused into the Mac and that is where I have been
today. In the transfused files I mean.
There are some photos in there that I cannot just put in the rubbish tin,
the Geiger counter is clicking. I have something to learn from them.
Tonight I was going back over Invercargill files, two years ago.
It was one of the richest times of my life.
This cat was in the street window of a store. It is of course, fake.
Nikau
I have just visited a subtropical garden in Kerikeri, in the far north
of New Zealand. I saw a lot of interesting plants but was
particularly struck by these berries on a Nikau palm.
What made it particularly appealing was that, because 0f a balcony that I was standing on they were almost at eye level.
The Hokianga
A couple of days ago I was visiting the Far North. At one stage
driven from Kerikeri, past Waimate North, through Okaihau where I once taught, with low flat brown Lake Omapere on the left and down a long, winding and largely unsealed road to Horeke, right to the banks of the Hokianga. Horeke was a sizable part of my childhood because my parents had the hotel at Takeke, about 30 minutes inland from there.
Clapham’s Clock Museum.
If visiting Whangarei at any time do call into this museum which is down
at The Basin, where there are boats and places to eat and also a giant sundial which told
me with great accuracy that the time was 3.25 pm.
There are hundreds of clocks on exhibit and the collection
is growing further as more clocks are donated. There are now
about 1000 clocks above the examples that the original Clapham
collection contained. Unfortunately there is now not enough room
for them all to be displayed so they have to be rotated.
My overall impression of the collection is that there is a high
degree of comicality about many of these clocks and I consequently
spent much of my time chuckling to myself.
The eyes on the Monkey clock kept moving from left to right
or perhaps it was the other way around. Remember that clicking on
these images will bring them up in a larger dimension. Not another dimension
alas, just a larger one.
Devonport, Auckland
I visited a garden in Devonport and I was struck by this flower.
I lived on the Devonport peninsula for something like 11 years, however I moved to Ponsonby in 1987. It was the year of an economic crash, I remember that.
Buddha at Kaukapakapa in Devonport.
This is a small in stature photo
but it was it was enriching for me to see
it on a Devonport wall. Framed
and with a perfect background.
Apple Tree
I’ve been travelling a little bit
around the North Island
beyond New Plymouth, lately.
One of my pleasures
is to come across a photo
of mine and to see it
settled into a loving home in
another part of this
country, in this case Whanganui.
Two Studio Views
I’ve been organising the walls of my studio
in recent months.
Here are a couple of views
although the stairs are really a
large scale photo pinned to the wall.
Over two years ago I took this photograph
in a B & B in Oamaru and have not yet
printed it up into an edition.
Mainly I would like to see it made
into a 1000 piece jigsaw.
The monarch was born in
my studio. I collected chrysalises
from Swan Plants in my garden and brought
them inside where I could watch them
develop. My studio is sunny, warm and
safe.
This particular butterfly was only a
few minutes old. Once its wings
had unfolded fully and
set in place, I put it back in the wild.