Capture: A Place to Stand
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Hebe, in reply to
sometimes home is where the lawn is . . .
Like!
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Hebe,
There are so many layers to my “home” emotions and connections, and Christchurch being what it is they are constantly stirred. This is another home – taken the Festival of Light night at the Botanic Gardens in winter. It was a heart-singing evening.
Jackson, Photos is just what I need. It suits me fine. Found a whole lot more tools like sharpening last night. New to track down the "how to resize" so I can post on the likes of Facebook.
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JacksonP, in reply to
Our new house, since June, has a lawn. Similarly needs a mow. :-)
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JacksonP, in reply to
“how to resize”
Great Hebe. If you use the File/Export function, I usually choose quality 'High', Size: Custom, with max dimension 1000 - 1200. Seems to work well for all online mediums. Good luck. :-)
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Blog Update: You're all doing so well, I added a second prize. Check the main post for info.
Tell You What, you won't be disappointed. :-)
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Shaun Scott, in reply to
managed to beat the rain and get it done yesterday, but felt the Courtney Barnett lawn mowing anguish . . . although mine was more like bursting a daisy cloud than cutting grass.
"I stare at the lawn, it's Wednesday morning
It needs a cut but I leave it growing
All different sizes and all shades of green
Slashing it down just seems kind of mean" -
Shaun Scott, in reply to
I love this photo, Hebe- and hits just like this whole theme is meant to do. It has reminded me of being a kid in christchurch, and loving seeing the colourful lights playing on fountains around the town- and always being puzzled why the ones outside the town hall were only white (cool as they were). has made me quite wistful for that time (40 years ago!). Thanks!
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Sacha, in reply to
why the ones outside the town hall were only white
politics?
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Hebe, in reply to
It has reminded me of being a kid in christchurch, and loving seeing the colourful lights
The festivals with lights – especially in the winter – have cheered many of us. We need that mood-enhancing magic. Vicki Buck says there will be more use of the Botanic Gardens at night, which will be very cool.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
...why the ones outside the town hall were only white
Dandelion seed heads!
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Shaun Scott, in reply to
they were beautiful (and even more so in my memory now)- just to the 8 year old eye, a dandelion seed-head was not as appealing as a gyrating, colourful and noisy display of others. :-)
Great that Chch has the festival with lights. We were lucky enough to have coincidentally timed an overnight stop-off in New Plymouth some years back and really enjoyed their festival of light at the gardens. -
Hebe, in reply to
Dandelion seed heads!
Yes!
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sandra, in reply to
Thanks, Shaun. Whew! I thought I was the only one who enjoyed visiting cemeteries - I specially like old, country places.
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What I haven’t yet shared with you is just a little further away from home – Katikati is 30 minutes drive to the north and the site of the Haiku Pathway, the largest collection of engraved boulders outside Japan and, until very recently, the only one outside Japan. Read more http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/node/279, and yes I’m on the committee! Anyway, here are some shots.
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My transition from Auckland to Far North has been rather easy this year as I’ve been working on it a while now. For me I’m home now. Stella the dog came home to the street she was born in so I feel her resting place is secure for a long time yet. My friend has found his place to stay and his creative streak has given me a place to call home. That’s not to show disregard for my inheriting part of the Family home in Auckland but I feel I left it a long time back.
The Doubtless Bay area has the beaches I can call home and I’m surrounded by native bush and all it’s treasures, along with the reminder of livestock that frequent the fields behind us. The ever changing sunsets that are there every night,just some more spectacular than others
So here are my pictures ( hat tip 7 Days) -
The land where I stand.
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Hebe, in reply to
So here are my pictures
Aaaah, ooooh, yum!
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Hebe, in reply to
Great pictures evoking home.
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Hebe,
Here’s another aspect of home for me. Home has come to mean a place of safety and refuge that also has woven into it the opposite: the breaking of much I knew. Some days in the last five years, my mental landscape is as disarranged as if the Port Hills had up and walked off.
That’s okay; I’m coming to terms with that loss of innocence.
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A favourite place of mine is Wharariki Beach, Golden Bay. Beautiful in the soft summer evening light.
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sandra, in reply to
The after-effects of the Canterbury quakes are going to be felt for a long time. The fact that a great many people have stayed and endured says a great deal, not only about those people but also about the place.
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And since it's almost Christmas - here's the angel from the top of my family's tree (not my one here in Tauranga you understand, but the tree on the farm). The poor thing is a bit battered but she's not looking bad for her age, which is almost the same as mine. Every year she comes out of her box which informs us that her life was intended to be as a cake decoration but somehow she ended up on top of a Christmas tree ... something like 58 years so far! If my Mum, now gone, knew we were coming for Christmas the tree decorating waited for us. I so enjoy opening the box and picking up this silly little plastic thing with her stained skirt and handing her to someone taller than me to fix to the top of the tree. Tears in my eyes as I write. Both my parents gone now so I don't know whether she'll see the light of day this year as we're up here for Christmas and my brother's on his own and may not even have a tree. I'll be thinking of her though.
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Where I stand and what I see.
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JacksonP, in reply to
Where I stand and what I see.
Really cool Chris. Thanks for posting those.
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chris, in reply to
Thanks a lot Jackson, a bit rushed but I found I was unable to take a photograph that expressed my love for the place.
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