Sounds like this is going to be the new Spring "this is what I took today" thread.

Possibly. But I wouldn?t mind if?

I?d have to recommend turning off the auto-stabilizer on that camera for best results!

Hey, and well done everyone who has sweated, posted, workshopped, contributed, commented and most of all – who shared an amazing array of?

Here is something I took today, that is not a flower. Common Skink (Oligosoma nigriplantare polychroma). Dunedin Botanic Gardens.

That's a beauty Sofie. Local artist?

Soo no photos yet of the Mt Tongariro eruption ?

Arohanui to you all.

Someone left this unattended near me

Cool.

That's lovely : ) Was great to catch up with you in person too. Can relate to the slow walk where there is something to snap every few paces. Hope you are getting all your other Auckland attractions in : )

Love you guys & your work ? contributors & commenters alike.

Thanks Kebabette. Appreciate the comments and the great photos.

Or, pea love-in! :-)

Cow and scooter parking, Mt Eden Rd.

Classic.

Oh, glad you posted those! Talk about street theatre! :-)

Mad scientist in training.

how cool

Bobbing for toasted marshmellows

Colour.

With its legs dangling! Great shot. :-)

and run

Heading straight for you too!

2. Me, trying to snap the fish, but the camera having a whole 'nother idea.

3. Fish finds Zane.

And Point Chev, Saturday evening, two. That's a shopping trolley.

Wonderful pictures all; Hine is great.

The shopping trolley obviously moved by the beauty of the view. ;-)
Lovely shots Russell.

One video of the sparrows with their babies...
(click for big)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DucVFYBj6YI

Love the waste disposal : )

Smiley (?) face

Heh, when I first saw that photo I thought it was some fancy piece of jewellery. There's something jade- or pounamu-like to the pattern of the colouring of the green ring. A photo that makes you focus and refocus questioning what you're seeing is always a good?

So that's free range chicken, which is also free?

+1 on the punamu horseshoe — until I read Chris Waugh's comment I had looked, admired and thought no more. It's stunning Nora.

That's awesome Kebabette. That cloud looks like a spaceship uncloaking after exciting from speed of light travel.*

*Am reading Iain M. Banks – by way of explanation.?

But Kebabette ? those golden wads of cloud!! here's a rose to go with it...
(and I like the MED building too ? hyper unreal)

Ha ha! You have time to read Jackson !!! : )

Caught this cloud wisp not long ago...

Yes .I had never encountered many chickens up the tree. They hang out in it all the time and nest around it and yes if you eat meat, free chicken and there is many free range eggs. I only need go?

Not a peony, one of the wonderful David Austin roses – bred to look like old roses, chock full of petals and not only that, but the most wonderful scents too : )

It is indeed. I probably liked that better than Hydrogen Sonata, which I'm reading now. Although I just got to the 'good bit'. It's mind warpingly intense.

Here?s
Aster bud
Aster out
Has ta be ? Aster bee

No python that I can see?..

Jealous of ponds

Still plenty of roses to spare

A drop of chianti
Whiteout

And that looks like a stunning garden Gareth!

You can have a life, or you can have a big garden.

We've got the garden.

That picture has a wonderful soft quality.

I regret not buying the dandelion head-in-a-paperweight that was a the Christchurch airport Ballantynes shop for years and years ( maybe a decade). I nearly bought it so many times, then one day I decided that today would be the?

what a nice idea... now you'll have to be scouring the second hand shops....

Oh no, beautiful dramatic shot!

The internet might provide?

I take it you have been to Port Chalmers recently? I went there myself in February or March when back last and thought the sculpture park (right term?) at the top of the hill was pretty neat. Great view over the harbour and peninsular too

It's a lovely spot. Ralph Hotere used to have his studio there before the hill was partly removed to allow for Port expansion.

Ah nice!

Cheating here, Super-moon in a cage on Mt Eden.

Marvelous night for a moondance.

O brilliant Lilith, that bottom picture has to be a lunar ear-clipse : )

Ear ear.

Whispery moon whisperer.

All credit to my whiskery moon-whisperer friend for staying still for a whole 6 seconds (that?s about a week in cat-time).

Twas a Cat-moon-do.

Our mailbox In The Garden sailed Into The Mystic today as we entered the time travel Tardis?. so cool. Thank you Ian. What an excellent surprise: we?re both purring and pawing the treasures right now.

"Grumpy old sod" was his considered opinion.

Nick Cave spent some?

Nick Cave spent some time in the same place.
?Gloomy bugger.?
Everyone (the men) I knew in Sydney early 80s?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__obh4w6tD8

It's from his album Murder Ballads , which sold more than any other. He thinks this is because all the Kylie fans bought it. He said they probably listened to it and thought, "What the f***?!!!"

I bloody love that song. There, I said it.

Kylie is special to me. Shuddup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzmMB8dTwGs

Wax eye recovery unit. This poor mite hit the window, but after standing there contemplating the stars for a while, it flew away quite happily.

How gorgeous!! Glad it was OK.

Exquisite!

This is down by the sound wall, St Mary's Bay today....

Lost Cone

Cool. Looks like an automaton. Did it walk by remote control?

Far out.

Excellent picture. Plays with my eyes.

...or back in the real world, she's decided Daddy's hat looks much cooler on her than on Daddy.

And Chris: my, how she?s grown!

(Did you receive the Matariki calendar?)

Not yet. Will check again. China Post is generally reliable, but things go missing every now and then.

and,
10 green bottles sitting in the wall? :)

and
oh the vanity!

One of the most beautiful places on the planet IMO.

fish eye looking up the saltmarsh and river

and looking the other way