Posts by ChrisW
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Capture: Got the blues, in reply to "chris",
Thanks chris - turns out after another 5 mm of rain this afternoon I could meet the challenge here, after your musical interlude - bitsa blue sky above with cabbage tree/ti kouka
and lotsa blue sky low in the northwest with Norfolk pine.
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Blue thread doesn’t deserve to die – but here’s a challenge, where are the blue skies today?
Don’t think we’ve had any like this traditional one, blue sky incidental but multiple blue ridges off into the distance.
Northeast from the Gisborne backcountry on Sunday. Arowhana the bold peak at left, twin peaks of Hikurangi 50 km away at right, each separately peek over a nearer ridge, each halo’d by cloud. -
Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Jos,
Thanks Jos - tho
sheep trail is real,
dog trial is artifact -
quirky life of brian?:-) -
Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to BenWilson,
Love that bus stop photo!
Cheers.Yes, and very clever to match your grey-scale photo with a grey-scale caption of exactly corresponding length so it looks like part of the fine artwork!
On the other hand, what happened to your full-on big-file photos?
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These grazers are generally happy to go with the colour and flow of the land. But really, for all that stuff about “following like sheep” and “wake up, you sheeple!” there’s a lot of radical individualism going on here.
After a little indecision and rightist tendencies, the collective made a determined swing to the left and headed for the warm sunlit uplands
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Most of us gazers preferred the view without the frame.
This grazer too.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to JacksonP,
Summer is well and truly done for.
Yes, it really is.But it was lovely warm summery weather in the Mangatu valley up in the Gisborne backcountry on Sunday – though admittedly there are some autumnal trees.
A frame upon the land.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Boston Ivy?
In the topical circumstances, extraordinarily close!
Looks like that in Jos's photos in Hamilton Gardens is Virginia creeper= Parthenocissus quinquefolia, very similar and closely related to 'Boston ivy' = Parthenocissus tricuspidata. And mine without the sticky pads on its tendrils is more suited to climbing trees than buildings, will be P. vitacea, false Virginia creeper not such a great name, perhaps 'grape woodbine' for preference.
Though sharing the growth form, none of these related to real ivy, hence my initial doubts.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Thanks Geoff - your photos of the Hamilton Gardens memorable too, truth to tell I didn't see the actual sign pointing to them, but stopped for the stone artwork by the roundabout.
Stay safe. Perhaps the width of a good-sized continent seems small tonight?
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Jos,
Formal gardens aren't usually my thing, but ... I guess another addition to the list.
The ivy is nice at the moment with the autumn colours
Is that really an ivy? Looks to be the same as the enjoyable but pesty climber rampant on the less kempt parts of my place. Here the background red in another photo of figging silvereyes (cf this one) through my kitchen window yesterday.
And because my arty botanical photos from a few years back were nowhere to be found, I mounted an umbrelliferous expotition to the riverbank in the rain for a new capture on twisty willow. Anyone know the species name?
