NEW ZEALAND & NATURE IN GENERAL

I always knew I wanted to visit New Zealand and now I know why. What a beautiful place. I also think that the person who took that picture has a great aesthetic eye and you need to recruit him to the quilting team. My DB is making noises about it. As in "I think I could get into that." I need to spend more time with him but he's 2/3 of the way across the country and working time and a half taking care of DSIL who is a state of advanced dementia with Alzheimer's.

Recently while walking the brat I came upon a spot on my property at just the right time of day in just the right atmospheric conditions at the right time of year when the far mountains were brightly lit with sunshine in some places and shaded by large clouds in others producing a light brown/ taupe and coffe brown undulating random picture dictated by the lay of the land. The mountains were on the other side of a creek valley several miles from me. Up close were the bare trees which were back lit by the sunlight making the trunks and branches appear silver, not gray, but silver. Even closer the same type trunks appeared their usual browns and grays. Did I have my camera? Of course not! Rats. The lessons taught by this story are 1) get yourself a digital camera if you don't have one and 2) for heaven's sake, take it everywhere with you with the battery charged and the memory adequate for any emergency. I'll probably never have another combination of variables like those I encountered that day. I write about it partly to fix it in my memory.

The picture is wonderful, Marion. I think the photographer loves his subjects.

Jane in NC