At Black Rock

Sometimes the Sky Tower can be pretty

Mt Eden to the City, April 2007

Topsy Turvy

Things are a little off kilter at the moment, as evidenced by the lack of posting. Hopefully I'll be back regular like in a couple of weeks, or maybe even sooner. In the meantime Linky Love will probably be on hiatus, but I will do the monthly bloggage for the end of the month (post up on that soonish).

Ka kite ano, and thanks for your patience.
Span

Sometimes the tide is just out

Karaka Bay, May 2007

And to be flippant for a moment...

Here's an invisible mother of my own daily acquaintance. I'm sure Mara won't mind me telling you, 'cos she's a cat and she can't read. The SPCA estimated she had at least two litters before we adopted her started living with her, but of course we've never seen them and from her kittenish nature many assume she's never bred.

She looks a bit grumpy in this shot. Two options; 1. I'm projecting; or 2. She gets fed-up with having a camera lens stuck in her face whenever she's just sitting around. Really, who can tell?

Waiting for time

Musee d'Orsay, Paris, May 2006

I kind of feel a bit like I'm in stasis at the moment - life keeps going but I feel as if I'm waiting, waiting, waiting.

At the end of the day

While I can't compete with satsumasalad on the beautiful sunset pics, here's the view from my place earlier this evening.

Hopefully as long as this good weather keeps going so will the fab sunsets.

Is it just me or is it a lot warmer (and drier) this autumn and winter?

Birdie

Taken at Panmure Lagoon, May 2007

The Trouble with Lichen

Well there's no trouble really, I just like both the book and the flora.

Taken on the Mangere Bridge waterfront, March 2007

Fun and sun

Well after my isn't-it-nice-and-warm-and-sunny Autumn post it appears I have broken the Auckland weather.

Sorry about that.

To make amends here is a pic to remind us all what summer is like, before we forget it entirely.

Taken at the Orpheus Festival, 6th Feb 2007.

Across the universe

In honour of The Actor Most Commonly Known as Scotty's ashes being sent into space, here's a shot of a dejected pretend cosmonaut.






Just 'cos I can.

Autumn

Taken on Oakley Creek Walkway, April 2007

It has been like an extended summer here in the Queen City,* as the good weather has gone on and on and it still isn't even that cold. The horrible rainy days have largely been restricted to times when I have had out-of-town people visiting. But surely the sunshine can't last much longer...

*I actually don't know if Auckland is the Queen City. But it ought to be.

Kindly help out a city-bound blogger

Further to the discussion here about liking sheep, and not cows who run at you...

Is this a cow or a bull?

Cos it wasn't very happy with me, and then my arm wasn't very happy with its head.

Thanks in advance for your assistance with this matter.

Cheerio

Span

Not Forgetting - Anzac Blogging Roundup

Herein lie all the blog posts I've found so far for this Anzac Day, 25th April 2007. All NZ unless otherwise noted.

Reports on various events:
ANZAC Day in Devonport - Juha was there
Anti war protest in Auckland - John has pictures from the Dawn Ceremony at the Auckland War Memorial
ANZAC Day - welly_girl was watching the telly coverage of various dawn services.
ANZAC Dawn Service - Chris was in London
Wellington Anzac Day Protest - anarchafairy
Opposition to War on ANZAC Day - John has reports and photos from around NZ and also Australia.
Early morning for Otautahi Cats! - jo has a pic from the Christchurch vigil.


Reflections & opinion:
ANZAC Day must be opposed - anarchafairy
The Anzac Spirit - me (Span) responding to anarchafairy
I really want to know - Maia continues the conversation of the previous two posts, and has cross-posted this at Alas.
Anzac Day 2007 - Jordan Carter
Thanks Old People - Apathy Jack posted something Eric Olthwaite wrote at some point in the past
Lest We Forget - the blonde canadian (Canadian)
Anzac Day: Dawn Parade - The Strategist
Wally of the Week - Judith Collins - Chris awards this for Anzac Day-related reasons.
Dawn Service - DPF
More on ANZAC Day - DPF again
Shameful Disrespect - Adolf Fiinkensein
Lest we forget - Zen Tiger
ANZAC Day - morgue
A Simple Test - more from anarchafairy
ANZAC Day - trs
Honour the Dead., No More Wars - There Is A Time And Place For Everything!! - James Sleep
Damage of war makes Clark "sick" - James Sleep
Top Ten Reasons Helen skipped the Dawn Service - Cactus Kate
has this place become permanently infested with socialist apologists and historical revisionists? - Pyscho Milt
In 'lest we forget' we forget too many - Joe Hendren
Po Whakamutunga - dagcentral (USA)
One sleep to go - David Slack
ANZAC Dawn Service, Wellington 2007 - Phil
ANZAC Anarchists; short-sighted, ignorant - Phil
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Make Tea Not War
what the? - Che Tibby
Lynch and Tillman and ANZAC protest - morgue
Already forgotten - Maia
Anzac Day - Eric Othlwaite
The car is broken and we're all well spoken - amarynth
(no title) - buzzandhum

Poetry & similar:
Anzac Day, Devonport - a contribution from Kevin Ireland posted by Craig Ranapia
Anzac Day - doddery old fart has the words of Ataturk which are carved in stone above Anzac Cove.
Anzac Day - The Strategist has 'For the Fallen'
Lest We Forget - tigtog has 'For the Fallen' and an open discussion thread about the day (Australian)
On Anzac Day - we will remember them - Webweaver has rather a range of related poems.


If your post is missing please feel free to add it in comments, and if I get a chance I'll add it in.

Updated, 5.54pm 25th April - added second post from DPF, posts by AF, w_g, ZT, morgue. Updated, 1.13pm 26th April - added two more posts from anarchafairy, posts by Chris, trs, JS (x2), Cactus Kate, PM, JH, dagcentral
Updated, 6.19pm 26th April - added posts by DS, Phil (x2), MTNW, CT, EO, jo, second posts from morgue, John and Maia.
Updated, 9.50am 27th April - added posts by amarynth, b&h and O-B.
Updated, 10.29am 29th April - added post by Webweaver

Thanks to morgue for hunting posts down too!


(Pic taken walking on Anzac Cove, April 2006)

It's not kitty porn, it's art I tell you!

Lordy lordy, I cannot believe that with all this yapping about cat blogging I've only posted one pic of Mara this month! I must be suffering from a strange affliction, I shall take myself immediately off to bed with a lemon honey drink and a hot water bottle, I assure you all.

A beautiful day in Auckland

Even towards the end of the day, when this shot was taken from near Achilles Point.

Nice to know my talismans sometimes work.

Weather Talisman the Fourth

I would really rather like to be able to go for a walk this weekend. It's been a while.

I like sheep

Unlike cows, they don't run at you. Much.

Resorting

This one's for Idsy who seems a little down on cat-blogging.

Methinks he is just jealous because he doesn't have a cat of Mara's extreme photogenity to share with you all. :-P

Blue sky and pine