Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime
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Somebody was inspired by Christchurch? Sometime last night or this morning somebody decided to add this little windmill to the sign directly opposite my front door.
For those who may be interested, the sign says:
爱护绿地内的花草树木人人有责
Àihù lǜdì nèi de huācǎo shùmù rénrén yǒu zé
Everybody is responbsible for taking care of the flowers, plants and trees in the green land.I liked the addition of the windmill though, a nice touch of early colour.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Afternoon light
Like a luscious cadbury chocolate advert, or one of those seventies cigarette ads : ) I guess that wasn't a white flower?
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Everybody is responbsible for taking care of the flowers, plants and trees in the green land.
Nice touch on a great sign, a message to take to heart. (And I really like the picture itself)
I had this flower from the green land to spare…
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ChrisW, in reply to
Barbed wire is indeed in the eye of the beholder.
On reflection, I see this is inverted - the barbed wire is in the eye of the beheld. No offence intended to Ian and Nora!
I found this a harrowing image myself in Jan 2005, overlooking Lake Grasmere by the saltworks, fresh from a focus on the prominent memorial in nearby Seddon to 35 local people killed in World War I.
A diary note from the time reminds me there was a TV1 promo or self-advertisement of some sort featuring as spokesperson a somewhat similar fence post, though without the barbed wire. Dimly remembered and can't find any trace of it online now. -
On the riverbank -
high density housing, yet an accommodation shortage.
"Huh! Wouldn't want to stay with you roosters anyway." -
On the riverbank -
little black shags are lined
up for a takeover of the
All Blacks brand,
an outline map of New Zealand
marketing logo in mind. -
Islander, in reply to
Heh! & yea!
They can only do better than the current useless lot of 'Brand NZ' marketeers... -
Jos,
A break between egg laying this afternoon.
Paper wasp seeing off a bee.
And a bee on final approach.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Paper wasp seeing off a bee
Oh brilly!
Fresh shiny monarch.
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Flags flying Milford beachfront
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Beachy reflections
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Islander, in reply to
All flowers should terminate in a butterfly! Or a moth! Or a fly!
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Flags flying
Daoist pirates at Milford?
If anybody’s lost a sandal, you might be able to find it in roughly the middle of the intersection of 广渠路/Guǎngqú Lù and 高碑店路/Gāobēidiàn Lù. Good luck dodging the trucks to pick it up though…
Left overs from Lantern Festival? Dunno, and I’m confused because today wasn’t the first time I’d walked through that area since Lantern Festival. Oh well.
Local park. Nice day for it, and a few more signs of spring.
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BenWilson, in reply to
It's been quite interesting to see the number of insects filling that spot I always remember honey bees taking in the past. I don't think I'd ever seen a hoverfly before this year. Aggressive little buggers towards other flying insects, that's for sure. Still haven't managed a good shot of one. They move in a really eccentric way.
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ChrisW, in reply to
If anybody’s lost a sandal, you might be able to find it in roughly the middle of the intersection of 广渠路/Guǎngqú Lù and 高碑店路/Gāobēidiàn Lù.
Yep, it's entirely plausible that someone in Auckland or thereabouts lost that sandal, on the basis that it's obvious the ill-disposed Christmas tree recorded by Nora in the Rangitoto Channel is the solution to your conundrum of a few weeks later - "but I couldn't for the life of me figure out where [the christmas tree] had been uprooted from."
Additional evidence - the sandal appears to be levitated, as if not quite beamed in yet ...
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Reds under the flower beds.
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streamline…
All flowers should terminate in a butterfly
all flowers terminate in the Ocean…
there they cede to salinity.
; – )
Cinderdrella?Additional evidence – the sandal appears to be levitated,
as if not quite beamed in yet …the surrounding spread of dark smuts and charred debris
makes me think it’s more ‘jaywalking vampire,
crossing against the sunlight…’ -
ChrisW, in reply to
the surrounding spread of dark smuts and charred debris
makes me think it’s more ‘jaywalking vampire,
crossing against the sunlight…’Sheesh, what an imagination! Here I am, solidly grounded in physics, and you're off with the vampires ...
Another solidly grounded basis for levitation, inspired by Jos - perhaps that purported sandal is the original asian paper wasp?
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Not much solidly grounded here....
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
streamline…
All flowers should terminate in a butterfly
all flowers terminate in the Ocean…
there they cede to salinity.
; – )Pathway to the Ocean then…
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Reds under the flower beds.
Lonely onion, or Lady shallot?
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Hebe, in reply to
Everybody is responbsible for taking care of the flowers, plants and trees in the green land.
What a good sign. I have a pile of seeds from huge red hollyhocks and sunflowers I am planning to scatter in a guerrilla-gardening offensive on some empty sections/ abandoned houses hereabouts. I love the wildflower 'gardens' that are sprouting in Christchurch -- there are the sanctioned Greening The Rubble sites
(v good) and also the places here and there that are becoming wilderness gardens. -
Nora Leggs, in reply to
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ChrisW, in reply to
Nice piece of trickery - at first sight I thought that was the reflection of a huge orange container ship in the Rangitoto Channel, epically seen against that Auckland skyscape. But no, a sea kayak through the glass, more solidly grounded than it seems!
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We went out to the St Clair Esplanade for our anniversary dinner the other evening. While I took this at high ISO and low light so the grain/focus isn't great, I did like the tones of colour.
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