"Pick your own" strawberries and raspberries - a traditional national holiday pastime and family activity

Picking

Growing strawberries 

Strawberries

Fresh Raspberries and cream - oh yes my all time favourite summer fruit and very hard to purchase good ones in the supermarket as they have a limited shelf life.

Star you are a star.

Mt Taranaki

Orewa beach walkers

Wrights Water Garden

Hamilton Gardens

Sculpture in the gardens

Queen Elizabeth Square

Mum doing the finishing touches after four months repairs to the house more than three years after the first big earthquake

At Wellington airport

Father Christmas - with a long history

This Father Christmas was originally on the Farmers building in Hobson street. I don't know for how long but it was there in 1976 when I moved to Auckland. When the Farmers closed mid 1990's it ended up in storage only to be restored and put in Queen street in recent times. One of his eyes used to wink and his finger moved but I think maybe this was thought too sleazy for modern day Santa.

Sky City Auckland - sleaze

Sunsets on another Auckland weekend

Kaipara Harbour on a very good day

Devonport

Two beer Friday....

Some three day old new residents in one of my trees

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I remember those chairs from the 1970's

And now for something completely different ... the inside of a Kiwi fridge

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Maybe I need a bigger one ?

IPhone camera vrs IPhone HDR camera (Wellington from James Cook Hotel)

(Standard camera) 

(HDR Camera App)