Category: Photography
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Life as a Wall
A climbing wall. As you can see from the lead image even children can climb this wall. Little tiny children. Yesterday my daughter suggested going to a climbing wall in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. She said: Give it a try. I said: I am too tired. She said: But you must. I said: I have no shoes. She…
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Shopping in Wellington
No! Not for clothes. No point in doing that. No point in shopping for clothes unless it is a new carhart jacket. When I get back to the farm it will be work clothes all the way – until January when I return to New Zealand for Senior Son’s wedding. So I am leaving my…
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Steaming full ahead
I am not behind yet, but I am definitely at Full Steam. Ahead. The skies have cleared after a few days of rugged weather. A little taste of winter. I am even wearing my carhart jacket again – broken zip and all – inside. The chimney needs cleaning before we can light fires. As I write…
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Thinking hay
I was up in the hay loft yesterday stacking hay. I grab the strings of a bale with my gloved hands, hefting it and as I drop it into its space I am already looking to see where the next one will be going. So when I swing the bale up off the clatter box it…
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September in pictures
September heaved with tears. And change. Good and dreadful. But it is an important month to commemorate. A vale of tears – a valley – a journey we took together. So, here are my favourite pictures from September. Somehow these got completely out of order, but I know you will forgive me. A girl needs her…
The Kitchen's Garden 