This Moment - Sundial

This Moment - Soule Mama

A single photo capturing a moment

A simple, special, extraordinary moment

A moment I want to pause, savour and remember

Whenever I have visitors from overseas, I take them to the usual places like the museum, the botanical gardens and other spots where one can enjoy the scenery. Wellington is, in my view, one of the most beautiful cities I have seen and the scenery no matter where you are is simply spectacular.

But each time I do the walkabout with my visitors, I discover something new.

And tucked away behind the Carter Observatory in the Wellington Botanical Gardens, was this sundial. Apparently there are many sundials in Wellington, so will have to walk around one day and see them all!

The sundial at the Carter Observatory is called the  "Sundial of Human Involvement". And as this is best explained in pictures, here they are:

I know - this moment is meant to have a single photo, but the latter two are to bring some context to the first picture.

And btw, this actually works - I got my cousin to stand and it was about 3.00pm - the time shown was perfect!

This is the moment 

This is the time

When the momentum and the moment

Are in rhyme

Give me this moment

This momentous moment ...

(from Jekyll and Hyde)

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A day in the countryside

On Saturday we went fruit and vegetable picking at Otaki - about an hours drive from Wellington.

It turned out to be a very hot and sunny day with no wind which is a blessing because picking fruits and veges on a windy day is just not fun.

So here are some pictures taken at our day in the countryside - picking fruits and vegetables.

Red chillies - I've never seen chillies this big.

Red capsicum. 

Tomatoes - some of them were really large

Apples

Apple trees

Pears

Pear trees

Never seen onions this big. I had to hold one and snap a picture.

Here is my bucket filled with apples, tomatoes, and green chillies

And ice-cream. Absolutely heavenly on a hot day. A great way to end the day.

It was quite interesting how they made it. Instead of the usual fruit and scoops, this place blends it all together to create a thick smooth ice-cream. We had to choose the fruits, the ice cream flavour and any other toppings.  So I chose strawberries and bananas with chocolate ice-cream and topping of nuts. Came out with quite an interesting flavour. Predominantly strawberry with a hint of banana kind of as an after-taste.

This Moment - A bird's eye view

This Moment - Soule Mama

A single photo capturing a moment

A simple, special, extraordinary moment

A moment I want to pause, savour and remember

I love watching the birds that dive in and out of my garden.

A few days ago I snapped these little birds doing a bit of bird watching of their own atop my camellia plant and taking in the birds eye view of the scenery.

It's fascinating how they perch and balance on top of thin little twigs.  They look so cute.

One is easy to spot, you might have to search a little for the other one!

This is the moment 

This is the time

When the momentum and the moment

Are in rhyme

Give me this moment

This momentous moment ...
(from Jekyll and Hyde)

also linking to

This Moment - Helicopter

This Moment - Soule Mama

A single photo capturing a moment

A simple, special, extraordinary moment

A moment I want to pause, savour and remember

There's never a dull moment where I live. Each day something interesting catches my eye as I look out over the hills and sip my cuppa in the mornings.

I breakfast alone as the others are usually asleep when I'm up so this is my quiet time - to look, ponder or just soak in the scenery.

So a few days ago, as I sat and watched the hills, I suddenly saw a helicopter hovering. Not sure what it was doing but it made a few rounds and then disappeared. Lucky my camera was lying nearby so grabbed it and took this shot. Not the best, and hopefully you can see the tiny dot that is the heli, but a moment to share anyway.

I've also found a new photo hop  Sundays in my city that I thought would be fun to join in so will be linking up with that too.

This is the moment 

This is the time

When the momentum and the moment

Are in rhyme

Give me this moment

This momentous moment ...
(from Jekyll and Hyde)