All smiles!

Clutha District. New Zealand ~pic taken today by Nigel

Ettrick Santa

Boxing Day afternoon we drove to Ettrick in search of a hay display I'd heard about via a person on Mastodon and I guess it's this! Plus a view down the hillside on the steep descent from Moa Flat to Ettrick taken by Nigel. Central Otago, New Zealand.

Wishing

you all Merry Christmas (see photo)

Christmas Moa

Yesterday at Moa Flat, West Otago, New Zealand. This is our favourite route when we go to Roxburgh so we see this moa a lot. It has its own fenced-off corner of a sheep paddock, shared with a few native plants. On our return home in the early evening we stopped to take photos of...

Christmas Mistletoe

I've still got a few photos of the native mistletoe that are perched on trees at our local public reserve at Black Gully. Happily they flower in December and a few of them reside at the edge of the big open grass area so no big hike is needed to access them. I took these...

Lift Up Your Heads

Today is Christmas Day in New Zealand. We walked a track new to us, Gabriel's Gully near Lawrence, South Otago. Love these new fern fronds that grow upright but also bow their heads, reminding me of a church song: Lift up your heads to the coming king, bow before him and adore him, sing… Detail...

Christmas Eve

Some photos I've taken this week, selected because I associate them with Christmas in some way. First two taken this morning at Gore Gardens.. white bell flowers and tiny pink blurs of Heuchera flowers. Then Cotinus or smokebush partly catching the light. And then (taken 22 Dec) native mistletoe, and astelia berries, Black Gully near...

Take A Bough

They have a leisurely life.. these post people at Lake Roxburgh village, Central Otago, New Zealand. Interesting use of a street tree! 03 Mar 2022.

Every dog has his day

So they say.. and this one was having a 'reindeer' day. From my 2021 files, these photos were taken 24 December. The cute dog was running around with similarly 'dressed' canine companions near Millers Flat, and I took the rural landscape pics the same afternoon as we returned home via Moa Flat. New Zealand. ~...