Journal 52: Weeks 8 - 11 & 13

I have been away for the last six weeks without internet access so my Journal 52 pages could only be posted now.  I wasn't able to do all of them as I could only use materials on hand.   The first week I only had a bare minimum of water colours and having not really done anything with this medium before my effort is well...not quite what I would have hoped for!  For subsequent weeks I used the acrylics I  bought locally.

Week 8:  Aromotherapy

Prompt here. 

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Week 9: Artistic Restraint (Using one colour and one shape)

Prompt here.

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Week 10: Colouring Book Inspiration

I created my own 'colouring book' page.

Prompt here.

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Week 11: Just Write

Prompt here.

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Week 13:  Spring Clean

Prompt here

A Kingfisher type of afternoon...

While sitting outside having a quiet drink one afternoon I noticed a kingfisher fly up with something in its beak...  I was quite some way from it, but managed to capture a few shots on film before it spotted something else in the long swampy grass and flew off again.

It looked like a katydid or bush cricket (Tettigoniidae) 

Gone!

To Catch a Fantail

On film, is difficult to say the least!  These gorgeous inquisitive little birds never keep still....  

Here are a few of my attempts.  The first three were taken in a bush walk in Kerikeri, the last ones were taken on my Mum & Dad's property.

Highlights New Zealand 2015

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.

Journal 52 Catch ups Week 2 & 3

My final two pages for my Journal 52 Catch Up.

Week 2:  Just Be

Prompt here...

Week 3:  Conversation Starters..

Taking a doll out and about with you and photographing it is always bound to start conversations...

Most of them interesting and stimulating...only the one comment that could be construed as negative, but one that I took in good jest and answered with the age of 8.

The prompt can be found here.