My favourite mode of transport – my feet. I like walking. I do my best thinking when I walk. I have my best thoughts. I process stuff. I see interesting things.* I couldn’t walk there for a while (about 18 months) because I had a pesky injury which precluded walking, much to my horror,…but it’s better … Continue reading you can’t lie to yourself when you are walking
(Sweet peas from my garden. I planted them amongst the bean vines.) I was trawling my photographs looking for blog inspiration and I thought – Geez, there are so many random shots which aren’t really ‘about’ anything….’ …and there I found this post. (Friends of mine have a red window at the end … Continue reading an everyday dreamer
Dahlias I have spied this summer in friends’ gardens, botanic gardens and municipal plantings – Otaki, Paekakariki, Palmerston North…. LET THE EYE-ORGY BEGIN: I was quite chuffed to snap a bee AND a butterfly together…. This one – you will just have to believe me because there is nothing to indicate scale – was the … Continue reading dahlia fan club summer 2014
Here are some photographs of the house we sat on our holiday. It belonged to a friend-of-a-friend so was not familiar to us – hence it had that nice mysteriousness of the home of someone you only slightly know. It was a great place for a holiday. I love house-sitting more than motels/hotels. All the … Continue reading sitting a house
These trees are all in leaf now, but a coupla weeks back we took a walk to the Victoria Esplanade to check out the Cherry Blossoms and they didn’t disappoint. Candy-tufted trees looking all ridiculously Dr. Seuss-like. I think I’ve mentioned before, Jolie Holland has a song called ‘Springtime Can Kill You’ and I feel … Continue reading Candy Floss Trees
I just spent a lovely relaxing weekend in Featherston with my dear friend Emma. Call this a blog post ‘of two halves’ – the words are on Emma’s blog (go HERE if you want to read about what we did) and the photographs are on my blog. Here goes – a squillion photographs of eye … Continue reading when girls go wild
On my magnolia walk, I came across some other interesting things… 1. The most glorious lemon tree which gave me severe lemon-tree-envy. I left behind a similarly awesome lemon tree at my last house and inherited a gnarled sickly old one. Seeing this beauty made me decide to plant a new one. I love lemons! … Continue reading magnolia walk (2)
Here’s a retro mattress for this week – two seasons in one mattress. Spring and winter. I was at a friend’s place recently and poking out of a book was this old leaflet for the Young Communist Party of New Zealand. I think it was probably from the 40s or 50s? I love the graphic … Continue reading young communists are people who are out to DO things
I quite like winter. (I like all of the seasons except spring, which I think is highly over-rated with it’s gales, lambs dead in sudden snow storms and obnoxious daffodils.) However, last week slammed me with a sick kid and then I caught his cold, too. By Thursday I was feeling kind of old-to-the-bones and … Continue reading battling winter drear
Waiting at the bus station the other night, waiting for an inter-city voyage, I had a headache and was feeling as grumpy as hell. I was tired and wanted to be at home on my sofa with a cup of tea and a book. People around me were smoking in that slightly desperate way people … Continue reading girl pangs
Helen Lehndorf 