Happy Birthday

Desiree is another year younger!

And it all went off with a hitch!

Yesterday was Charlotte & Gareth's wedding. The ceremony was held at our place, so, of course, there were preparations to be made, largely orchestrated by Desiree & Jayne.

The first tranche of photos are of the preparations, and are in a viewer HERE.

23 today!!

Well, I never! Already?

An early Spring

This year has been unseasonably warm. These Camelia and Spring bulb flowers were out before the end of May. We shouldn't have seen them before August!

It's a lovely day

After a string of wet, dreary, days, the sun came out yesterday, and I was able to get the lawns mowed.
That was followed by a clear, frosty, night, which left it's trace on cobwebs in the garden.

But it was so nice we even gave the bird an airing outside.

Happy Birthday

70 on 24 May 2011
(who'd have thought?!)

I forgot to mention ...

...that on our way back from Collingwood to Takaka we detoured to look at the Pupu Springs, which claim to have the purest/cleanest & therefore clearest fresh water in the world.
And it is startlingly clear!

And ... there were a few other photos, of the Springs amongst other places, which got missed out of the other gallery, so they are in Nelson Gallery #2.