Posts by ChrisW
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Pretty scruffy for a youngish Norfolk pine, but ...
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Orange sky for autumn - smoke from far away passing over Gisborne from the west around 4 this afternoon, did interesting things to the light.
Anyone know where the smoke was coming from?Detail - smoking in the shower?
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I like this stack of blue ridges, smoothly curved to match the powerlines, that I often see when looking northwest up one of my neighbourhood streets. This at x12 zoom – the far ridge is almost 1000 m high and 49 km away – on a warm day earlier in the month, with plenty of heat shimmer. A band of brown grass in the then-drought helps bring out the pine-covered ridges.
Then this afternoon – more-or-less matching view less-zoomed, but a broad band of smoke from some distant source way inland was moving sideways across the sky from the west. Orange sky – there’s another thread for orange I know …
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Further to my earlier post on this Blue thread on Norfolk pine crosses – here’s a fine set against a blue sky in Gisborne’s Taruheru cemetery. The headstone is a tall one backing onto my maternal grandfather’s grave. This was on Anzac Day, with a fresh breeze blowing such that the tops of the more tender trees are bent, their heads slight bowed it seemed, or gently nodding.
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Jos,
I have a tui in a bottle brush tree
Beautiful! A striking pose too with one foot above its ear. Is that in shadow with strong blue skylight to bring out the colour and sheen of the feathers?
(Or in other words - how the hell did you do that?)Plain soft overcast for this autumnal kingfisher 12 days ago. It chose to perch in the open spaces of some die-back on the old grapefruit tree, to check out the jungle of weedy grass below for skinks or other goodies.
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The motley crew of ducks are confused, awaiting their maize but the maize-provider is just standing there rather than approaching as usual. What’s going on?
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A calm dawn over the river, approaching high tide this morning.
The ducks arrive, expecting a few handfuls of maize.
The dawn is disturbed ;-)
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This one looks mellow – a moment of pleasurable anticipation of the satisfaction to come?
But too fleeting a moment – Not finished yet!
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Only a hint of “season of mists” and precious little “mellow fruitfulness” so far in this thread?
So here’s some fruitfulness, but the atmosphere perhaps more competitive than mellow, as a flock of silvereyes jockey for a brief opportunity in the prime perch to pick off the next ripe fig in sequence. Ten days ago when that red-leaved creeper was showing off.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Record Store Day, in reply to Alan Perrott,
Pleased to hear it Alan - satisfaction all round.
