New Zealand
When you buy a takeaway coffee from Wolf at the Door the container has this wonderful design. Wolf at the Door, 6 Carroll Street, Dunedin, New Zealand. I LOVE the old-fashioned stained glass door! Completely unrelated but a couple of days ago SO came across this delightful street scene of a gold car with... Continue Reading →
Me and SO were at the Dunedin Botanic Garden a few weeks ago on a perfect autumn day and he started playing around with the leaves under a Liriodendron tree (tulip tree). The leaves are very big and there were lots of different colour variations. I liked the results of his efforts! Words... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Tin Ticket by Deborah J. Swiss The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women "Under the Transportation Act, 162,000 women, men and children were exiled to Australia from 1788 - 1868." "During the nineteenth century, twenty-five thousand women were discarded by their homeland." I was aware... Continue Reading →
REBLOG: Really enjoyed this post from Flow Art Station showing beautiful street art steps in various locations. My personal favourite was the fish swimming on blue steps in Seoul, Korea. By following the credits I found what appears to be the original article at Bored Panda.
16th Avenue Tiled Steps, San Francisco
Image credits: yellofish
16th Avenue Tiled Steps, San Francisco
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Image credits: rleigh
Valparaíso, Chile
Image credits: oueduabroad
Seoul, South Korea
Image credits: Kevin Lowry
Wuppertal, Germany
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Sicily, Italy
Image credits: Andrea Annaloro
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Image credits: jr-art.net
Beirut, Lebanon
Image credits: Jubran E. Elias
Stairs to the musical theater in Seoul, South Korea
Stairs of Peace in Syria
Image credits: Jood Voluntary Team
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Image credits: justin-travels
Angers, FranceI
image credits: Mademoiselle Maurice
Istanbul, Turke
Image credits: DHA
Morlaix, France
Image credits: ZAG
Tehran, Iran
Image credits: farsizaban
Beirut, Lebanon
Image credits: Dihzahyners Project
Valparaíso, Chile
Image credits: Jean-BaptisteYunis
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REBLOG: I've never seen anything like these colourful buildings so I've decided for today's post to simply reblog this post (which I only found this morning).
Its now Friday morning in New Zealand and this means that Michael (Prema Bakery) parks his caravan on the side of the busy Kaikorai Valley Road near where I live. He makes the most delicious meat pies and assorted other baking such as Belgium Biscuits, Custard Squares, Dutch Twists, etc. I feel so fortunate that... Continue Reading →
Dunedin Public Libraries have two bookbuses which operate Monday to Saturday and provide a mobile library service to many suburbs in Dunedin. We drove past one of them last Saturday and decided to stop and take a look (and take some photos!). Words by Exploring Colour and... Continue Reading →
NEW ZEALAND CABBAGE TREES (CORDYLINE AUSTRALIS). Iconic native tree of New Zealand. Frequently seen in both town and country. The cabbage tree looks particularly beautiful when in flower. These cabbage trees are growing in the median strip of a street in the city of Invercargill in the south of the South Island. Quintessential iconic shot... Continue Reading →
REBLOG: This is my favourite poem. When I read it I feel like I’m cosily cocooned within the layers, the “million meters mounded into magic”. I love how the shape of the text mirrors the shape of the dress. Savour the words that ripple and flow like the dress itself. For more poems and other writing, and for delightful photos in Paris head on over to Deuxiemepeau; Picturing Poetry by D. B. Donnelly.
Look for me
in the layers lost,
in the careful caress
that concerns the contours
of form and finesse. The million
meters mounded into magic, turned
and twisted into tastes now termed timeless,
look for me in the yards that yield towards yellow,
that burn into beauty, like ochre opening, that grow towards
the gleam of green, that flit and flow like a feather in flight, like rays
of the old days that ripple on the water. Look for me by the curt corners
of concrete where complacency converges, look for me where the columns congregate,
creation is not just a concept concerned with procreation
but with the colours and costumes
we claim to parade our personality.
All words and photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
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Sunday 18 June in Dunedin, New Zealand. Glorious, sunny winter's day with an almost cloudless blue sky. My husband and I were out walking on a street, just relaxing and chatting and looking at houses, plants, gardens. And I spotted this bright orange cottage with blue window frames and a blue door and fell head... Continue Reading →
The National Bank of New Zealand, 193 Princes Street, Dunedin, NZ. "This is a relatively ornate large building and one of the few Dunedin buildings to show the Baroque tendencies of Edwardian architecture. It ranks with the Law Courts and the Town Hall in representing the important stone buildings of the beginning of the century."... Continue Reading →
Beauty awakened, finding its form; Brand new wings, for a nymph reborn
Exploring Colour 