The oppressive overnight heat and humidity of the last few months seems to have gone, and I’m sleeping so much better.
The mornings are deliciously cool and perfect for walking. It is windy today though, so most of the shots I took are very blurry.
But the signs of autumn are obvious. And I couldn’t be happier.
Still-life with gym shoes. Image: Su Leslie 2019Ok, let’s just get it out of the way. I’ve joined a gym.
It wasn’t entirely by choice, but I finally sought help to manage my arthritic knee, and this is part of the programme.
I don’t like gyms. Even when I wasn’t middle-aged and overweight, I was still uncoordinated.
And philosophically …. people getting in their cars to drive to a brightly-lit, air-conditioned building full of expensive equipment designed to simulate the exercise humans evolved to get doing that thing called living? I know that’s simplistic; I am genuinely concerned about the environmental costs.
But it seems to be working. After just a few weeks, I have significantly better flexibility and strength.
So having more or less captured my month in one image, here are a few shots that haven’t made it into other posts.
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Prunella vulgaris, or self-heal. The clue’s in the name really. Thought to impede blood flow to wounds, it has long been used as a medicinal herb. In New Zealand, it’s commonly found in large clumps in the lawn and regarded as a weed.
Image: Su Leslie
My timing is a bit off this weekend. Yesterday’s skating and traffic shots were full of movement — the theme of this week’s One Word Sunday, hosted by Debbie at Travel with Intent.
Still, I think the gull qualifies.
(Click to enlarge image)
It wasn’t the downpour predicted, but there was rain overnight, leaving a few drops of moisture clinging to the jade plant this morning.
For the last few days, FaceBook has helpfully been reminding me that in 2015 at this time, the Big T, the boy-child and I were on holiday together; in San Francisco, Munich, Bordeaux, then London.
On our last night in San Francisco, we ate somewhere off Washington Square, after an afternoon watching our only child skateboard down Lombard Street. As you do.
Posted to Six Word Saturday.
Rose garden, Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North. Image : Su Leslie
Banana passion-fruit flower. Image; Su Leslie 2019
Like so many plants and animals introduced to New Zealand, banana passion-fruit has proved to be incredibly invasive and damaging. It grows easily and abundantly, smothering other species. Indeed, it is illegal here to cultivate, sell or distribute the plants.
The Big T likes the fruit — which really does look like a small banana with the inside of a passion-fruit — so he was quite pleased to find some growing by the roadside recently.
I find it quite astringent, but was very happy to tear out a length of vine to bring home and photograph.
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