...can see into you, apparently. No mysterious, wind-driven branch knocked my hat off.

Confucian Temple, Beijing.

thanks Chris, and I snapped it from the car window on the way past! but there is a cluster of great reflecting buildings down this strip and i keep saying i will get down there on foot and take some more.

Could this be the reverse view…

And somebody got stuck into the trees. Pity, while they were removing things, they couldn't remove the slogan warning of fines for people caught swimming in the dirty water. The pond was drained and filled in years ago.

frames view of the white duck, Taruheru

Thanks. Yes, it was good stuff. Not quite dead but they're giving the last rites.

A good excuse to post another Ektachrome shot (also with a few trees) ... the charming olde world Grafton village.

Many more tears to fall before the new leaves fill in the screen

Re-viewing the thread, saw this one of yours anew.
Uplifting gaze from the spectacular sunburst – there's a fine image of NZ there, aspirationally placed for the return home for you and new home for family.
Cheers!

with dawn redwood sprouting in the corner.

Like this little number

Our prunus is doing it nicely now

all welcome, cliched or not cliched, keeping this branch rolling

I never noticed monkey puzzle new growth was so snaky ....

hung out to dry?

I wasn’t going to post these – oh well, they were making goslings right there in front of me….

one lone duckling circuiting the domain duck pond last weekend

take-off,

hoping to match the elegance of a heron’s take-off.
Surprisingly perhaps managing a 7/10?

over the land

across the sun

And an evening, some other day.

Spectacular!

3 weeks ago, Venus and its reflection (just) left of centre

This morning, such a positively roseate dawn

here’s a zebra palm trunk

wow, you ARE getting the most magnificent weatherscapes!! (and you’ve caught them so beautifully)

colour-balm to restore jaded souls. (including those gold lit pics from the previous page)

reframed.

later, a little fancy

and more so.
But I’m getting ahead…

Found these at Victoria Park – Central Aucklanders can join in by providing bee hotels.

Streambank

(Don't worry, I think that power station is just letting off steam)

your pictures are a great balance for trouble brewing over-hill.

you sure have had some gorgeous weatherscapes there : )

I'll just relax and appreciate the spectacle,

waiting for the detail to come ...

This country lane reminded me of this song, speaking of space invaders.

I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane
Late at night when I'm driving
Take me on board their beautiful ship
Show me the world as I'd love to see it

Free again

Er – I’ll just stand back and have a think about that.

Quarter-hour later, through a double window divided by the dawn redwood, as the sun was about to be blocked by the cloud massif.

Working again! So, what I tried to post earlier.

And this would seem to be some rather early change going on.

beautiful ChrisW.

A wee bridge admiring it's reflection

Then a shadow, a screen,
a sign of darkness to come.

Further clearance, racing pigeons out for a spin.
Norfolk’s a feature, but it’s all about the framing?

Or a car about to meet an ent intent on revenge?

nice

here's tree seen in wrong side of wing mirror

I went looking for the 'Like' button. Beautiful colours.

The dawn redwood captures only a little of the wnter sun, but really, would it mind stepping…

Late sun on ti kouka,
though I was tempted to name it for the white spotted pukeko
to be spotted as for Michael Smither’s 'White Gate, Kaitake'.

Nature continues on up here, despite all the city hurls at it.

Though I'm not sure my father in law would approve of my neighbours' attempts at growing corn. I was only away for a week, and this is what happened... Still, I think I…

Long shadows

Tree, crane and grammar

winter pm tree mix

yet another tree dweller

trees stop sign (from working)

Later half of July and the walnut has finally lost all its leaves, invigorating my passive solar heating and opening up my visual world.

The walnut stretches out to touch the corners of its new world –
kowhai at near/top, disregarding the…

and an ornamental quince flower or two

Thought this looked a bit like a cloud tree.

Reach up

or

go side on

Whatever they are they're decorating the north gate of the World Grape Exhibition (I tried but failed to find an official English name, so I'll just directly translate the Chinese name for now) site just a couple of kms down from our village. What…

Nice vertical venetian effect : )

(and my aim needs a bit of work – I was trying to shoot the bee. Oh well)

seen on Upper Queen

Here we go again, spring around the corner and the tui feast is starting up

He’s got a while to wait.

Gratuitous mountain shot.

like another land : )

pretty chilly walk tonite – that sun had no heat.

You too JP. Sorry I missed M, realised she was there once brain engaged eyes.
I've taken photos of broken trees but it's just tee tree on our land although some large Tee…

without a scanner I have to digitise the images with the digital camera

Nice work Bruce. Would be interested in your setup for htis. There are a number of reports on the internet suggesting this method is much better than scanning in any…

And the cafe had enough hot chips for them all, but ran…

And another tree was holding all its fluffy buds.

I was in Glenfalloch Gardens in Portobello. That’s the harbour in the distance.

Aye Bruce – uber fog at the Domain too…..

Looking like summer?

– one suburb under a bow

– beefed up bow strike

liquid trippiness, bet that's not a function on the camera Jos!

Nice Thomas – we need more Formal Trees : )

bird tree
trippy tree
melia berries

Ephemeral building, solid trees.

The lantern tree.

Oo nice, the sunflower and corn trees : )

It looks like this.

Trees seen through Brazilian tears.

And despite the colouring, this did not turn out to be a good omen for the Dutch national football team (taken 4:50ish am Beijing time during the half-time break).

real nice,

i remember summer