154/366 - Lake Ianthe, I think I love you!

153/366 - Love and gratitude

Sign on the hot water tap at the hospital Transport Dept - where we can fill up plastic bottles of hot water to speedily defrost the pool car windscreens.

152/366 - High fibre diet

151/366 - Snowdrops

150/366 - Rainbow in Aranui Road

149/366 - Walking on water

Sonny Jim appears to have  performed a bit of a miracle tonight!

At the local swimming pool with the Scouts, about to be swimming fully clothed. . .

148/366 - Sheep may safely graze. . .

Sheep grazing in a vineyard just off Higgs Road, Mapua

147/366 - Transport from days gone by. . .

Photographed outside Wangapeka Dairy in Appleby, near Richmond.

146/366 - Kina sunset

Snapped on my way home from an evening appointment in Kina, Tasman. . .

145/366 - Mid-winter Christmas

Today is mid-winter's day and my colleagues and I decided to share a mid-winter Christmas this evening, to wish one of our number farewell. She is  British and specially asked if her leaving "do" could be a mid-winter Christmas celebration so we got out the Christmas tree, assorted Christmas decorations and sat down to a big hot dinner, complete with roast veg, roast meat, nut roast, Yorkshire puddings and an assortment of veggies including the ubiquitous Brussels Sprouts!

144/366 - World Vision "Kids for Kids" concert

With Suzanne Prentice, several school choirs (about 360 children) including 8 soloists: 7 girls and 1 boy. . . We came home with an "extra child", having agreed to sponsor an 11 year old boy from Cambodia through World Vision, as a "World Buddy" for Sonny Jim! Those soloists certainly had guts to stand up in front of approx 800 people and sing their hearts out!

143/366 - Flooded driveway

The torrential rain continues. . .

142/366 - Muddy puddle

Torrential rain, howling wind, thunder and lightning tonight - so I had fun photographing puddles!

141/366 - Pelargonium

Searching for colour on another overcast day, I honed in on this large pelargonium plant in one corner of the garden. . .

140/366 - Rainbow monster in the kitchen!

We had a houseful of women at our place tonight, and this is one of them modelling the visiting toy poodle's rainbow jacket in a very inventive way!!

139/366 - Waimea estuary sunset, alongside SH6

This view wowed me as I drove home, so I parked up and walked for about 10 mins each way, so I could get a photo :)

138/366 - Haulashore Island, Tahunanui

Dark wintry day at Tahunanui. . . you can't really see it but there is snow on the mountains in the background!

137/366 - The "accidental avocado"

One day last year when I was adding vegetable scraps to our worm farm,  I found an avocado stone which had sprouted roots and shoots and leaves, unnoticed in the darkness! I admired its tenacity so retrieved it and tried to encourage it to thrive, although the Wifie and I are famed for our ability to neglect most plants to death! However, this "accidental avocado" really bucked the trend, and grew and grew and grew!

I photographed it before taking it off to work to give to my green-fingered colleague F, so she could graft a Fuerte avocado plant onto it. Apparently it may not survive the experience, but I really hope it does!

136/366 - Splash of colour

In the dull winter depths of the garden, there is one bright beacon of colour, sprouting from the muddy, weedy quagmire that used to be the grass! A self-seeded rainbow silverbeet plant :)

135/366 - Beach walk near Mapua campground

134/366 - Rabbit Island ferry at Mapua wharf

133/366 - Infinity knit

The back of my part-finished Infinity Cardi. . . a fun and quick knit so far.

132/366 - View over Nelson from Toi Toi hills

131/366 - Reflections

Reflection s on the Waimea estuary at Mapua. Snow on cloud-covered mountains in the background.

130/366 - Day trip to Havelock

 Havelock marina at lunchtime. . .

It was snowing on the way home over the Whangamoa hills - first snow of the year!

129/366 - Latest batch of halloumi cheese

128/366 - Bike ride on Rabbit Island

A fun way to spend the Queen's Birthday holiday - catch the ferry to Rabbit Island (Moturoa) and go for a bike ride. . .

127/366 - Inside a kete

 The inside of a kete I wove several years ago. . .

And here's the outside! It's a backpack kete for Sonny Jim. . .

126/366 - Maitai river, Nelson

125/366 - Last leaves