Grandad's photos

Nice day to walk the poodles.









The sculpture He-he-he-he-Ha! is still there.







Julie's duck is still at one end of the lower pond, but also in the pond is a white duck that is larger than the other ducks, and it has two other ducks, similar to Julie's, darker, but with not such a fine white front.


Pretty sure this little guy is a Dabchick with a young one, I think. They both swim underwater, and are brown and a lot smaller than a coot.



The first picture I took, with the camera on auto, came out like this. Nikon must think it want's to do its own watercolours!

Here's how the neighbour has hooked up his TV aerial.

1. Stagger dangerously around on the edge of the roof connecting the cable.
2. Buy the minimum length of cable, thus saving money and the cost of clips.
3. Locate where the TV is and using a long drill bit, drill straight through the outside wall into the living room, right behind the TV!
4. Picture on the big screen! (House painting can wait).

As you can see I have too much time on my hands, apart from bussing at 3:30 am.

The man at the Pilot Shop at Ardmore saw my pictures and thought there was a market there for the Ardmore Flying School student pilots. Many of them are from overseas. So today he has 6 paintings on display, similar to the above. I always wondered why I took all those plane pictures at Ardmore!

A night in Orewa was an enjoyable break, with excursions to Wenderholm & Mahurangi Regional Parks, then Puhoi for a coffee and some cheese. Shopping at the Orewa New World is exceptionally well located, 20m from Muldoon's Irish pub! We visited Long Bay Regional Park on the way home.



Plenty of birdlife at these parks.


This is a juvenile Banded Dotterel, and an oystercatcher.



Now that I am an artist, ;-) I like to take some reference photos for my backgrounds. Here are a few.