Sunset, Bolte Bridge, Melbourne, Australia. Image: Su Leslie 2019
Brian at Bushboy’s World invited me to join him and other bloggers posting a travel photo a day for ten days.
The deal is I also invite someone else each day to join in too. I know how busy many of your blog schedules are, so I am always a bit loathe to nominate people.
But … many of you have travelled much more than me and have wonderful archives to dip in to …and I do really enjoy seeing the world through your eyes.
So Sue (WordsVisual), if you feel like it and have time, I’m inviting you today. Ping-back to this post so I’m sure to see yours.
Brian at Bushboy’s World invited me to join him and other bloggers posting a travel photo a day for ten days. No explanation or back-story required, just an image.
The deal is I also invite someone else to join in too. I know how busy many of your blog schedules are, so I am always a bit loathe to nominate people.
But … many of you have travelled much more than me and have wonderful archives to dip in to …and I do really enjoy seeing the world through your eyes.
As Auckland is back in Covid 19 lock-down and we’re not allowed outside the city boundaries, I thought I’d flip through my photo archive each day, and enjoy the memories of places I’ve been and hopefully will return to again.
Taranaki is a favourite destination of mine; not least because it hosts an annual garden festival. The 2020 programme arrived in the mail recently and I’d been making tentative plans to go. Probably just as well I haven’t booked accommodation!
I visited my dad and stepmother today. Seeing how lovely their garden is looking, I confessed to a little hydrangea envy. My stepmother promptly produced a shovel and insisted I dig out a small bush to take home. She then took a cutting from a second hydrangea to give me as well.
I’m spending tonight and tomorrow night in (different) hotels, and I’ve never transported hydrangeas before. They’re spending tonight in a bucket of water in the bathroom, but have a fairly long (and bumpy) car ride tomorrow before I can get them back into the bucket.
Umberto Eco once wrote an essay called ‘How to Travel with a Salmon.’ I’m hoping the hydrangea proves a more rewarding — and less expensive — travelling companion.
Ok, 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.
Twilight, Whanganui river from Durie Hill. Image; Su Leslie 2019
Sunset, Whanganui river mouth from Durie Hill, Whanganui. Image: Su Leslie 2019
Sunflower. Su Leslie 2019
Aviary, Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North. Image: Su Leslie 2019
Desert Road, North Island, NZ. Image: Su Leslie 2019
Aviary, Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North. Image: Su Leslie 2019
Aviary, Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North. Image: Su Leslie 2019
Sunflower petals. Image: Su Leslie 2019
Dugald McKenzie Rose Garden, Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North. Image; Su Leslie 2019
Sunflower. Su Leslie 2019
War Memorial Tower, Durie Hill, Whanganui. Image; Su Leslie 2019
Aviary, Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North. Image: Su Leslie 2019
About The Changing Seasons
The Changing Seasons is a monthly challenge where bloggers around the world share what’s been happening in their month.
If you would like to join in, here are the guidelines:
The Changing Seasons Version One (photographic):
Each month, post 5-20 photos in a gallery that you feel represent your month
Don’t use photos from your archive. Only new shots.
Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons so that others can find them
The Changing Seasons Version Two (you choose the format):
Each month, post a photo, recipe, painting, drawing, video, whatever that you feel says something about your month
Don’t use archive stuff. Only new material!
Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons so others can find them.
If you do a ping-back to this post, I can update it with links to all of yours.
Please visit these amazing bloggers for their accounts of the month just gone:
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