..another week down!
10 February 2013
So..I hear you ask, as she done any more on the Quilted Wall Hanging like she said she would?...Well yes I have!
The top is complete now.
it has been pinned to the batting and backing and is ready for quilting...watch this space.
What else.. the frangipani flowers are out and the scent is amazing, every year this tree gets better and better .
Everyday the Godwits fly over in formation when they go from the West Coast to the East Coast and vice versa depending on the tides. Yesterday must have been a bit windy for them as they were flying extremely low and out of formation
Only a few more weeks before they start their migratory flight to Asia to escape our winter.
8 February 2013
The weather is perfect today. I hope you're not getting to sick of Cruise Ships, because...here is another one.
Its been a huge season, and there are still quite a few more due in over the next 6 weeks. Today's one is
Artania
Because the weather was so good, I decided to visit the Summer of Sculpture at Silo Park & Karanga Plaza.
(Warning: there are a lot of photos!!)
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| Spinning Tiers (Steve Woodward) |
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| Hope with Wings (Llew Summers) |
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| Jolt (Mart Szirmay) |
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| Big Man (Lucy Bucknall) |
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| Sibyl (Jim Wheeler) |
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| Seated Dog & Seated Thin Dog (Barry Lett) |
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Wharfinger (Denis O'Connor)
( Hard to see but there is a banner on here with a poem on it) |
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| Maquette for a Large Bird (Greer Twiss) |
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| Fallen Angel (Neil Miller) |
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| Kainga Tahi Kainga Rua - Colonial Pendulum (Brett Graham) |
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| Evergreen 1 (Phil Neary) |
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| Evergreen 2 (Phil Neary) |
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| Evergreen 3 (Phil Neary) |
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| Evergreen 4 (Phil Neary) |
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| Evergreen 5 (Phil Neary) |
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| Evergreen 6 (Phil Neary) |
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| Bearing (Charlotte Fisher) |
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| Giant Charm Bracelet 111 ( Fiona Garlick) |
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| Bell Tower (Richard Mathieson) |
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Claim (John Edgar)
Font (John Edgar) |
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| Exotic Native (Jim Wheeler) |
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| Supplement to the Lysaght Referee (Jeff Thomson) |
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| Portrait of Mass and Transmission (David McCracken) |
..and to finish a couple of random bits, another new car waiting for me at the yachts today, a new Rolls Royce.
..and to finish a cute photo of my pussy cat trying to keep cool out of the midday sun.
7 February 2013
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the sinking of The Orpheus on the Manukau Bar, a treacherous piece of ocean. A memorial has been set up at The Maritime Museum.
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| Three crosses for the Baker, Carpenter & Shoemaker |
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| Crosses made for all 189 who lost their lives, made by local artists. |
and of course there was a cruise ship in this time Europa
4 February 2013
What an awful day weather wise, very windy and rainy. I know we need the rain but it feels quite wintry today.
A couple of cruise ships in today, the Carnival Spirit now this did look like a fun ship, you could see the water slides quite clearly at the top of the ship.
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| Carnival Spirit |
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| Water Slides |
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| Water Slides |
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| Ship leaving Princes Wharf |
Also in was a much (much) smaller ship, the Oceanic Discoverer, this ship takes only 72 passengers!
Some of the people from these ships braved the elements and went on the Jet Boat, they were in for a very wet time.
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