Posts by Venetia King
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to JacksonP,
I hope you got something of the magnolias, they're glorious right now but my photos didn't do them justice.
Walking into town yesterday, I stopped to see the tuis in the kowhai at the Old Government Building and managed to get quite close to this one. All fluffed up because it was singing its little heart out for me.
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I wasn’t just looking at the poppies though, I love the rock gardens with all their moss and lichen and pretty miniature flowers. Including oxalis!
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Loving all the pinks and purples (and butterflies and birds and general loveliness) added since my last visit here.
We took a wander through the Botanic Gardens for day 1 of spring and I captured a few colours.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
periwinkle
Those grew wild at my primary school (St Joseph's Takapuna, in the 70s). We used to pull apart the flowers to get at the "fairy toothbrush", but I don't remember doing anything with them once we got them.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
urban art around Soho Square
Love that one with the path between the pohutukawas - makes me want to take a walk along it! Reminded me of Karl Maughan's work - found this piece that says he's involved so maybe it was.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Chris Waugh,
How’d you get the flowers to glow from the inside?
Just lucky that the sun was shining brightly in exactly the right direction at the time! I'm quite a patient person generally but for some reason not when I'm taking photos. About the only technique I can ever manage is turning on the macro function :)
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Sorry to hear about the burglary Geoff.
I think most of the cinema-going of my youth was in Queen Street. I remember being awed by the lion statues' glowing eyes and the starry ceiling at the Civic; and how squashed my legs were up the top at the St James (at least I think it was that, could've been the Regent) - and I've got short legs!
But I did go to the Tudor Takapuna on occasion (I can remember seeing Truly Madly Deeply there, one of the most tear-inducing films ever but still a favourite of mine). I see the Tudor didn't make your list - it didn't have a lot of personality at least in my day and was probably pretty mainstream (www.localhistoryonline.org.nz has an image of it from 1986 with Police Academy 2 advertised over the entrance). It was torn down and replaced by a Berkeley multiplex after my time.
I remember getting sampler passes for Auckland Film Society screenings in the early 90s before moving to Wellington. I think I managed to catch a series of Aki Kaurismaki films that way, but can't remember where they were shown. Could've been the Academy - I know I went to a few films there back in the day. It felt more grown-up than other cinemas for some reason.
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Wellington's a bit gloomy today so here's one from a sunny spring day in 2010.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to JacksonP,
I did actually add a link yesterday to the bottom of the original post to the poem in question
So you did! My bad - I saw the original post from work and didn't re-view it before posting.
And going back to page 1 now, I think that's your white flower there in glorious purple. I always knew it as Lasiandra, we had one in our garden when I was growing up. Must get my own one of these days!
Jos, that posing tui is just superb. And more nostalgia for the childhood garden, we had a bottle brush too. Thank you for sharing :)
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Lilith __,
that oxalis is very pretty! :-)
I was impressed by how well my phone camera managed to capture it!
