daydream

This is Frankie sitting in front of our clematis.
Sometimes, just sometimes, I want to dye her with beetroot juice and recreate this:

Tim Walker

oh there is art about

Yes siree, there is some good art around this town at the moment.
A few weeks ago I went to a show at NG Gallery by local artist Scott Flanagan and I thought it was wonderful.
Do You Remember Me Like I Do?



A tumbling waterfall and a meticulously woven wishing well made from VHS tape



Books filled by various artists from around the country with scratchings, drawings, paintings, greyhounds - artistic everythings.  





I am no art writer, so if you want to read more about this exhibition and other shows in Christchurch I highly recommend visiting the website EyeContact.


And here is a habitual flower photo, instagrammed to hide it's out-of-focusness.

flowers for grandmothers

First bouquet of the season for a friend with a crook tummy.
It's a bit wee, but it's pretty mighty.  


Oh yeah, and here is a cute cat napping in the spare/craft room.

Neighbourhood Flower Watch

Walking to work today I spied this lovely tree, or bush, or is it a hedgey shrub?
I snapped these pics with the ubiquitous instagram.
(I'm a bit tentative with instagram, not quite sure of it yet, but gosh it is handy)





After some internet searching I've decided it's a japonica, also known as a flowering quince.
If anybody out there can confirm or deny this I would be most pleased.
I think my squashy, murky garden could benefit from one.

Osaka sniff

Stopping to smell the plastic subway flowers.
Stopping to smell real flowers that looked like wild little flames. I want my garden aflame with these!

90

Davina-Gin-Maudie-Minga turned 90 on thursday.



 

I made her a card, Gareth baked her some Anzac biscuits and we picked her a bouquet from her garden.

Lots of family came to visit from around New Zealand. We sang karaoke, drank numerous cups of tea, went to markets and geeked out on being family.

Happy birthday Minga - you are marvelous.

Update: Really is there anything more charming than a young man holding a bunch of blooms?

day to day

After our Japan adventures we haven't been doing much at all.
Gareth is learning carpentry and I am growing flowers/knitting dinosaurs.

It's quite nice really.