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Lakeshore

I love the number of colors and textures on the shore in the foreground.  I also love the shape of the mountain – the folds and slope down to the lake.  I love the blues of the mountains in the background and the turquoise of the lake.  I do like the interest of the clouds in the sky, but I’m sure if the sun were out, these colors would be even more striking.  I also love the winding road on the foreground shore and the highway on the background.  It gives a bit of scale!

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Glacial Creek

I love the deep clear turquoise of the water.  I love how the rocks break it up with the gray and cause the turbulent white.  I love the different lines in the white – the swirls, the curves, the vertical drops and the straight lines on the surface.  I also like how some of the rock can be seen under the water.  Now there’s a weaving challenge!

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Reflection on Lake Paringa

I love the stillness of the water and the nearly perfect reflection.  I like the layers of the mountains.  I love the rocks in the foreground.  I wish for a more interesting sky and the corresponding reflection in the lake.

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Sunset on the Lake

After the picture from the campsite, we just had to go to the lake.  Here is the experiment with the sunset setting on the camera.

I like the darkness of the mountains with the occasional pop of snow at the ridges.  I like the diagonal lines of the clouds and the shading from the sun.  I also like the other lower clouds that frame in the mountains.

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These were simple flowers on the shore of the lake at Wanaka.  I likes the coolness of the blue and the heat of the pink.  I also like the black and white of the background to allow the flower to stand out.  The evening was overcast and there is the feeling of cold and calm on the shore.

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Sunset on the Mountains
This was taken from our campsite – I’m not sure it could have been better anywhere else!
I love the drama of the light and shadows.  i love the lake peeking through with it’s blues.  I love the trees in shadow poking up periodically.

Old Mother Hubbard Went to the Cupboard

Here’s where we left it last week – thrilled to see rebuilding to a point of changing the atmosphere…

 

 

We were preparing for the cabinets that James had built and were at a furniture refinishing shop being painted.  The clock is ticking… The cabinets showed up on Wednesday and it’s been a week of installing them, making measurements for the countertop, and glory be – putting in the plumbing for the sink and dishwasher.  In fact, I am just now hearing for the first time in weeks – the hum of a dishwasher! Here’s a better picture without the overhead light to see how the ceiling, crown molding and cabinets all come together. Another big news for the week – while in New Zealand we commissioned a sculpture to make a crèche for us.  It came in this week.  This is by Ian Anderson who lives in Oamaru in North Otago on the South Island.  Ian works in limestone that is from the local quarries.  The crèche stands nearly a foot tall and is out of the multicolored stone.  There are reddish hints that run through it and add a new dimension to the folds in the robes.