sharing new year's eve with some furry friends

The kitten is Mere Mere, the dog is Tui and you probably all know King Kong.

a new year

This seems like a good image going into a new year full of unknown possibilities. Hope you all have a good one.

softball park

Comet and I went exploring further around Gonville and came across an empty softball park.

evening walk in Gonville

I like the crazy way the camera deals with low light.

Cemetary Circuit

I apologise to all the racing fans out there but I went to visit my Dad rather than go trackside at the Cemetary Circuit. But there were lots of nice bikes to look at parked up outside by the spectators.

Christmas Day at the Beach

We took Comet out to Castlecliff for a bit of stick fetching.

Comet

Over Christmas we are house-sitting in Gonville and this is Comet who is extremely well behaved and good at catching flies. Hope you all have a great Christmas.

devil with great facial hair

Matt S and his partner Sarah just came back from South America with this present.

a couple of combinations...

Happy Blogging Birthday to Me

Well, it's been exactly a year since I started this photo blog and now that I have a sitemeter I know that some of you lovely people out there are actually taking the time to view it. So thanks, and if you have any special requests, drop me an email (my address is at bottom of page).
In honour of this special occasion, I am wearing some of my current faves from artist/designer friends: tee shirt by Jo Ockey, skirt by Janet Dunn and the ring on a chain round my neck is 'The Rock' by Bek Coogan.
All going well, another year of blogging and before too long I'm hoping to be posting from Vegas (that's Las Vegas, not Wangavegas where we are now).

The Mole

Last night we visited the Mole at the entrance to the Whanganui River. For once the water was really calm, and as you can see it was pretty dark by the time we got there, but there were still quite a few people fishing. On the way back I took a wrong turn onto a gravel road through the industrial area. We passed a body in a bag. Luckily it was just a sheep. But no, I didn't stop to photograph it because it felt like we were in some dodgy B-grade horror movie where some chain-saw-weilding maniac was about to appear out of nowhere. Sometimes having an active imagination is not a good thing.

Seasonal Salon

Every year I lke to make this event. Janet Dunn is a Wellington fashion designer who has worked in theatre in the past, and her creations range from slightly quirky to fabulously unusual. She believes in recreating vintage and second hand clothing and giving them a completely new life.

Auckland motorway, evening

still on the subject of cute

You can tell these two are brothers.

so cute!

I met this gorgeous little girl at a Wellington barbeque. She really liked my mobile phone.

More street art

On a grander scale, Victor Berezovsky's painting on the top of Toi Poneke.

some Wellington graffiti

Tools of Survival

Tonight we went to the opening of 'Tools of Survival' at McNamara Gallery, all works created using 19C processes. Shown here are Aaron Seeto's silver salt photographs on eggs and Matt is standing in front of a couple of Ben Cauchi's ambrotypes. To see more works in the show, check out the McNamara website.

Another garden