14. stillness

Ha! Bit of a tricky one in Wellington. But we woke up this morning to a beautiful late winter's day- with NO WIND!

Went for a wee ride on Mt Victoria...

Then met Simon for a bit of lunch-time track work.

This next photo is from the wall on the other side of our road.

13. home

Another slightly drizzly day yesterday (Tuesday), so an inside shot- and one where you can't see the pile of unfolded washing & the general detritus...

I love this poster. It's a National Publicity Studios one from 1966, and is hand screenprinted using about 30 differnt screens apparently. It's a beauty. I'd love to have it properly framed, but it's kinda large. So for the time being it's safely encapsulated in mylar.

The White Wolf is a Kachina doll from New Mexico that my step-mum Janet gave me. He is the protector of home & family, so should be placed facing the door.

12. far away

This was a bit of a tricky one today- it was grey & drizzly on Monday. Not great for photography, especially with my wee camera phone...

11. play

Today for August Break 2013 the prompt was "play".

Bit of a drizzly stay at home day today, so we had a few games picked up yesterday at the toy library. Monopoly Junior is a bit of a fave...

10. red

The kaka beak is in full flower- signs of spring! The toadstool I must confess is from a few months ago, but it is such a beautiful red...
And how could I resist M in her whacky red pants.

09. taste

A peak inside my spice drawer. I'm looking forward to a time when Miro will enjoy a spicy curry or chili dish with us. She's really not up to anything in the 'picante' range, or 'caliente' for that matter...

This evening Ma Shona treated us all to a visit to Sirocco at Zealandia. He was spectacular. Here's a not-so-great-sorry-it's-taken-with-my-phone-camera photo...

08. a selfie

This is the one that's probably scared me the most. I really hate having my photo taken- maybe doing it myself is a way to get over that (can you get over things at the age of 44? wait. what? 44? yikes.)

So yesterday on my ride I took a cop-out selfie...

...and would have been ok with that if I couldn't be happy with todays one.

I can live with that.

07. skyline

Bit of a cloudy day today... Looking out the window.

Took a break in the weather for a (very slow- ahem) blast up to the Brooklyn wind turbine.

There's usually somewhere sheltered to ride single track in Wellington. Love.

Looking south towards Pencarrow.

06. diagonals

I love the way this type of fern wraps itself around things to make it's way, and some classic steep Wellington steps...

05. close up

The first close up is off my Grandma Elma's hand. Today she is 91. I visited her today with my mother, Shona, and together we had a cup of tea and talked about books and children.

The second is a wee terrarium I made with some found stuff (raided Miro's plastic animals for the horse). I think it looks pretty cute on the kitchen windowsill...

04. love

A bit of an odd one I guess...

Feeling the love for the discovery of penicillin these days. Miro has a really nasty staph infection on her left thumb. It started out as a tiny red rash, which then got a blister on it (which we thought was related to her doing lots of biking (just learning! yay- but that's another story)). The blister got bigger & red around the outside, I took her to the doctor and now, after just over a week of antibiotics, it's getting sorted.

03. yellow

yellow- birthday singing & winter baking

02. circles

losely based on circles!...

01. Breakfast

Bircher muesli & black coffee....

got some catching up to do...

Getting started...

This seems like a good way for me to get this thing off the ground...August Break 2013

A bit of discipline is probably a good thing.