Capture: Roamin' Holiday
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
This is from a holiday I had in October 20o7. The Arts Centre in all it's glorious Spring busyness.
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It was very lovely.
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Hebe, in reply to
It was. The beauty is still there, just not in the buildings any more.
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
I hope those aren't too upsetting, Hebe. I was wondering when and where I should share some of my Christchurch photos. I have lovely ones of the Botanic Gardens and of the city centre from a number of holidays previous to 2010. And then some from when I went last year. Those were taken surreptitiously from a car as we went past because I didn't want to be so blatant about it. I just wanted a record for myself, to garner some understanding, which of course, not living down there, I can not even get close to coming to. In the meantime, I send hugs. Great big embracing ones.
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Hebe, in reply to
I don't find them upsetting; share away , it is good to have the record. I wish it were all still there for my children's sake, but I don't agree with the idea of rebuilding immediately. Most of these old buildings, including the destroyed cathedrals, took decades to build and were aggregations of generations of craftspeople's work and community money. Why do we expect them to be rebuilt within five, 10, or 20 years? I loved the idea of raising a steeple in the Square that was suggested by an American; a real community project. I wonder where it got to.
Bugger I've just hijacked the thread...
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Hebe,
Hijacking penance; playing at Porters. I like the pure joy these three ski-refuseniks found when they gave up the skis and found a hill to roll down.
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Holiday Escapism..
In case Neil Gaiman fans hadn't noticed, Stardust is on TV3 tonight (Tuesday 10 Jan) at 7.30pm - ad astra - with ads, sadly! -
I'm loving the pre-quake photos, Jackie. And your stories, Hebe. And thanks for the tip, Ian. Loved Stardust, I wonder if the adaptation is any good.
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BTW I wonder if anyone can top this for a cute beach-holiday photo?
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Hebe, in reply to
Sooo cute. Feeding two is like feeding little birds.
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
Here, then. Have some more!
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The mighty Avon.
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The happy tram...
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Last night, full moon and time to take this snap.
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Hebe, in reply to
That Art gallery is excellent. I love it. My partner wrote one of the speeches for the opening and, as an old counterculture-dweller, had a long memory of the art establishment in this city and their horror at the then new and "uncivilised" artists. So he took his dead friends Tony Fomison and Phil Clairmont along by dropping them in the speech (they were the only artists mentioned in any of the many speeches).
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Hebe, in reply to
Last night felt like that pic. What time did you take it? My new screensaver.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
So he took his dead friends Tony Fomison and Phil Clairmont along by dropping them in the speech (they were the only artists mentioned in any of the many speeches).
How odd that is. But yes, it's an excellent gallery.
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Hebe it seems 22.08 hrs. So glad you like it . Anyway i went out and got this one tonight.The moon played hide and seek so no pictures worth to post on that score.
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One more of the library in Brighton. I do like this tree.
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Cathedral Square, November 2010. Optimism unfulfilled.
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Counting down. Taken the same day.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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Only after I knelt down and took a picture of some waterlilies, did I notice that there were some duck(ling)s at rest just in front of me. I could almost have used the camera's macro settings.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Nice shot David hood. It's always there if we just look deeper into the abyss ;)
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
I do like this tree.
Monterey cypress, aka macrocarpa.
Like the other contender for NZ's most widespread exotic tree, it's a vulnerable survivor in its tiny central Californian homeland.
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