DP Photo Challenge: Names, take 1

Tomatoes … in case you were wondering. Seen at Junk and Disorderly, Northcote, New Zealand. Image: Su Leslie, 2015.

Daily Post Photo Challenge | Names

Six word Saturday: a portrait of the local ladies

Seen on Coulson’s Hill, Tokoroa. Image: Su Leslie, 2017. Image edited with Snapseed and PhotoLab

A different kind of traffic jam

Moving sheep for shearing, near Waingaro, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

The Big T and I escaped the city yesterday to explore the back roads to Raglan. It’s a beautiful, very rural part of the country, but even there we couldn’t escape a traffic jam.

Waiting for the sheep to pass. Near Waingaro, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

It’s shearing time, and local farmers were moving stock to the shearing shed.

Shearing time, near Waingaro, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

We’d already struggled through an Auckland gridlock to leave the city, but the four-legged traffic was much easier to bear, and way more entertaining.

Weathered but not broken

Limestone formations, Waro Reserve, Hikurangi, Northland, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2016

“That’s the thing about rocks–they don’t break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.”
― Ellen Dreyer, The Glow Stone

This post was written for Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge at Lens and Pens by Sally. This week the theme is nature.

 

Wordless Wednesday

Evening light on the garden. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

First light

Sunrise, 1 January 2017. Waitangi, New Zealand. image: Su Leslie, 2017