Snowing in Silvy...August version

from front door

looking down driveway

top of drive where you can park if you can get up the drive

looking down subdivision

looking up subdivision

empty section next door to us

as far as i got trying to get up drive

our house in the snow

front lawn

oh my! what is this white stuff

freezing paws!

Hope you are safe and warm...

Some of the roads I cycle (on a fine day)

This is the Whiteman's Valley side of Blue Mountains Road... Whiteman's Valley The beginning of the 'rollers' heading towards Mangaroa The "dip" at Maymorn Bring back the sunshine :)

Snowing in Silvy...

Snow this afternoon in Silvy at our house :)

The family's snow adventures... while I'm at work :(

At Kaitoke, Wellington Heading to Kaitoke Heading to Kaitoke Like ice candy floss! Cute! Mr Frosty Becky's snow angel :) Just past Te Marua Lakes heading to Kaitoke By Kaitoke Waterworks turnoffBrr don't you feel cold just looking at these pics?

Keep Warm

This afternoons view

Who would believe the day has turned gorgeous. I should be home out on my bike. Excuse the reflection of the office lights.  Hope it stays this way for weekend.
Hugs Jx

Wicked clouds...

View from office window this morning.
Have a happy day.
Julz x

Gorgeous sunrise

Lovely sky as leaving for the train. Now its is very grey and cold.
Have a great day. X

Where fairies shelter from the rain...

I spied these gorgeous toadstools on my bike ride this afternoon, and thought... ah ha - when I pick up DD1 from work tonight I'll take the camera and snap a few pics! A lot of these photo's were taken by placing camera near the ground and just trusting the auto focus and pressing the button - my camera doesn't have live view so looking through the eye finder was like looking into a dark cave. Really pleased with the results from not taking much time as DD1 was starving and wanting her dinner :)

A great day today for visitors, first Brother in law came for a visit from Palmerston North, then niece and her boyfriend stopped in from Masterton and then just as I was finishing my shower (after bike ride this arvo) I heard someone call out 'hello' and Diesel also very high pitch yelping, called out to the person just a minute - throwing on clothes, and also calling Diesel as he sounded wounded! He comes scurrying into the bathroom with a big Alsatian following him - turns out its the dog from the house down the bottom of our driveway had jumped their fence and come for a visit. Diesel always runs down to see Sasha (the Alsatian) and they 'chat' to each other thru the fence though they've never had a play date. Poor sookie boy wasn't too sure about the forwardness of this girl dog - she was happy as anything and roaming around the house like she lived here, she was definitely the 'alpha' dog in the twosome! Turned out the 'hello' was from my sister in law and her partner, also from Masterton. So SinLaw and I took Sasha home and suggested to the neighbour that the dogs have play dates ... I think he thought I was a bit mad as he was like.. ooh okay!

Such a great day, SinLaw and partner ended up staying for dinner, and they headed home when it was time for me to head out to pick up DD1 from work and of course take those cute photo's of 'where fairies shelter from the rain'.

Hugs

Phew... last stitch quilted & night visitor

I've nearly done it... just finished quilting the 3rd project (I have cheated a bit, its all 'in the ditch' and row quilting on this one!) that I want to enter into the Stonestead Quilt Festival (7th Feb) I only need to now add the binding and then the handstitching... Any ideas of what I could call this quilt (currently I call it the Gail Pan Stitcheries Quilt!)?


And here's a young fellow or fellowess that came inside tonight to cool off some - am thinking its a cricket, haven't seen one like this before...

Righto am off to bed is past my witching hour.

PS: Just in case you'd thought I've been super efficient this week... I'm still hand stitching the binding on projects 1 and 2, will have to focus on this completely now the quilting is all complete...

Red Rocks 31 Dec 2009 - photo heavy

... a BBQ dinner out at Red Rocks, this is taken from the entrance carpark - we are heading out past the point with the small rocks...

Nearly at the small rocks you saw in the first picture - part of the flat road !

This is Hell's Gate - very steep, narrow and rocky - we are half way to our destination...

Some of the kiwi batches along the way...

Finally at our destination, wood gatherer on duty...

Not sure of the name for this now defunct lighthouse - is on quite a lean... though looks pretty straight from this angle.

Sea was too choppy for DH to go for a dive for fresh Paua for tea...

So we made do with the steak we brought from home... this is the little fire!

Time for a cuppa - don't you just love Nescafe instant Mochachino sachets - I got to have a flash coffee to top off a magic dinner!

Setting sun and building up the fire...

Sunset on the horizon...

Time to head home...


Hope you had a lovely New Year's eve.

Hugs