Well my time in New Zealand has ended and I arrived home late Tuesday evening. It was so very hard to say goodbye to my parents and also heartbreaking. I so didn't want to leave them or New Zealand. I really want to go back there to live so very much.
Alzheimer's is an incredibly cruel disease.
Anyway some highlights of my time in New Zealand.
Waves
Clouds descending
Fungi
Wood Pigeon - taken at Mum & Dad's house.
Mahurangi Regional Park
One of my friend's alpacas.
My friend Jane with a newly born Cria
Kingfisher - sitting on picnic table at my Mum & Dad's.
Water Lily in their pond
My friend Jane and I. We had some fun times together, including a few days away in Kerikeri
Rose in garden
Monarch Butterfly - I have a few more in this series of photographs I took.
Another rose in the garden.
The fabulous Orewa Beach - I used to work very near here many years ago. We even set up office once on the beach which was fun!
A glorious day.
Toes in water.
Shadows.
I've still to go to Orewa beach, must make a point of actually getting off the main road and stopping for a while :D Lovely photos, how lovely to have a wood pigeon in their garden :D Sorry we didn't get to meet up this time, next time for sure. Hard choices to make about coming home, but I think in your heart you know what you should do, where the greater need is. xxxx
ReplyDeleteIf you get a chance you must! Hope you had a nice time in Auckland. Was sorry to miss meeting up with you. Mum & Dad live on 25 acres (although my sister owns some of the land now) so they get lots of wonderful birds in the garden. :-)
DeleteYes indeed...
I really love that clouds descending photo … just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIts hard when you live so far from home … and those homesickness blues hit. Hopefully you'll get to go back very soon.
xx
Thank you, as we drove past that scene, I had to get my friend to turn around so I could go back and photograph it....got to be some benefits to a miserable day.
DeleteGosh that made me come out in goosebumps. I know how much I sometimes miss New Zealand so how you must feel I cannot imagine.
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