Tag: New Zealand

  • New Zealand Painterly

    Blue sky, white cloudsGreen grass, rolling mountains –Nature’s beautyIs timeless I took this photo in New Zealand last year. We were travelling between Rotorua and Lake Taupo and stopped along the way to take in this beautiful, rugged landscape. It was February 2015 when I took the photo but unfortunately it has mostly just sat…

  • Beautiful Bag End

    In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. ~ JRR Tolkien, The…

  • The Bird and the Mountains

    Across the water Mountains rise Telling the story Of this young land This is another shot from our New Zealand trip earlier this year. We stayed near Lake Taupo for a couple of days and I took this while we were there, looking across at the mountains. It was a beautiful day and I was lucky…

  • Looking Towards Bag End

    Peace: The sound of birds chirping Children laughing And the wind in the trees I spent some time today going back through some of the photos I took in New Zealand earlier this year. I’ve been meaning to for a while as I took a lot of photos over there but the thought of going…

  • The Bumblebee

    Oh to be Like a small bumblebee; How different The world must seem I took this while we were in Hobbiton. It was a beautiful day and with all of the flowers blossoming there were lots of bumblebees buzzing around and I managed to snap this just as this bee paused and looked up. It…

  • Welcome to Hobbiton

    To live simply And eat and laugh With friends – A hobbit’s life is for me We visited Hobbiton, near Matamata while we were in New Zealand. It’s the movie set from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies and has been carefully maintained since filming ended on The Hobbit films. It’s a…

  • Travelling Across New Zealand

    Nature’s beauty Is like a woman’s smile: It says so much With no words I just got back from a trip to New Zealand for two and a half weeks with my partner. It was my first time visiting NZ and it was a lovely trip. We spent the first week travelling across the North…

  • Lest We Forget

    Lest We Forget

    Yesterday was ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand, commemorating the Gallipoli landing on April 25, 1915. Of the more than 44,000 Allied deaths at Gallipoli almost 11,000 were ANZACs; over 130,000 soldiers died on both sides… [Read more…]