Public Address | Cafe | Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=292314#post292314 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=292314#post292314 thread dearth
Spring of the fuchsia
back to fuchsia...
this spring thread has lasted a whole ten days
beyond a year! – tinkering with the mechanics
of time can only end...
...oddly

]]> Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:04:11 +1200 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=292310#post292310 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=292310#post292310 Over here Jos, a place to call spring.

While waiting for Spring of the fuchsia.

]]> Wed, 21 Aug 2013 08:45:37 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285590#post285590 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285590#post285590 Wed, 01 May 2013 22:01:20 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285589#post285589 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285589#post285589 Wed, 01 May 2013 21:58:10 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285581#post285581 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285581#post285581 Wed, 01 May 2013 18:55:58 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285572#post285572 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285572#post285572 Wed, 01 May 2013 11:52:00 +1200 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285568#post285568 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285568#post285568 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:22:16 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285566#post285566 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285566#post285566 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:09:51 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285565#post285565 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285565#post285565 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:50:02 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285564#post285564 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285564#post285564 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:49:01 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285562#post285562 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=285562#post285562 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:43:08 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281502#post281502 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281502#post281502 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:53:44 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281501#post281501 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281501#post281501 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:48:13 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281494#post281494 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281494#post281494 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:05:00 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281492#post281492 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281492#post281492 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:55:57 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281424#post281424 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281424#post281424 Neat to know & thanks Lilith!
My mother has just a wee bichon frise now, but – soon as I leave here, I will get a Main Coon-

]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:53:27 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281420#post281420 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281420#post281420 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:58:20 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281310#post281310 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281310#post281310 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:42:11 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281280#post281280 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281280#post281280 Otherwise (shudder.)

Stay alert!

]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:43:05 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281279#post281279 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281279#post281279 O!
Thank all goodness that Japanese anenomes dont appear to have reached Oamaru -yet.
Otherwise (shudder.)

]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:39:46 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281275#post281275 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281275#post281275 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:28:47 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281242#post281242 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281242#post281242 You wanna see my mother's front fence in Oamaru!
Photos posted* when I get there.

*Not for the faint-hearted...her wisteria reaches out with lively tendrils towards passers-by and and and-

]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:49:39 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281237#post281237 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281237#post281237 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:15:45 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281116#post281116 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281116#post281116 I’m expecting a wild-eyed Mel Gibson in the next frame

I'll let you know if he appears.... ; )

]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 07:43:05 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281087#post281087 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281087#post281087 Signs of the times

corn by night

I'm expecting a wild-eyed Mel Gibson in the next frame. ;-)

]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:11:56 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281083#post281083 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281083#post281083 Seasonal affective disorder
...can’t bring myself to name it
you ought, um...
...nevermind.
But at least
it falls short
of winter!

]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:12:26 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281081#post281081 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281081#post281081 slightly spooky!

or a little alien : )

]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:29:28 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281080#post281080 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281080#post281080 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:23:13 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281078#post281078 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281078#post281078 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:17:42 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281077#post281077 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281077#post281077 A cooler one

Here’s evidence of the cooler season…… the nerine, which Mr Leggs said was out, didn’t realise it was still in bud….

And Mr Nosey checking it out too

]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:15:53 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281076#post281076 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281076#post281076 the next season, can’t bring myself to name it.

A cooler one, for which this cold-adapted blubber-rich creature thanks the powers & seasons that be- I hate hate hate
the heat-

]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:11:58 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281075#post281075 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281075#post281075 Anyone else notice the Nerines are out? Have to grab a snap tomorrow. That means it's officially not spring, not summer, but ........ late summer verging on..... the next season, can't bring myself to name it.

Black and white zinnia

]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:55:38 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281074#post281074 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281074#post281074 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:54:28 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281073#post281073 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281073#post281073 always spring, in the Singapore Garden By The Bay

Always spring at the supermarket too..... but the lighting isn't wonderful!

]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:51:31 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281072#post281072 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281072#post281072 Cat snap

Cat hiding amongst the seedlings

]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:49:18 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281061#post281061 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281061#post281061 As Russell said yesterday on the Twitter:

Comments on PAS are broken and our guys are busy singing kumbaya at #webstock.

Technical problems during one of the country's major annual geekfests is unfortunate timing.

]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:57:43 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281060#post281060 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281060#post281060 I found those to be extremely attractive to bumblebees, so much so that I found several bee carcasses around the plant. It's like they got hooked, and dosed until they died.

none of the threads would open until five minutes ago.

Phew, glad to hear it wasn't just me.

]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:15:09 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281058#post281058 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281058#post281058 but none of the threads would open until five minutes ago.

"Sorry, there is an error on this page."

]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:36:30 +1300 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281054#post281054 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281054#post281054 something seems to have happened to this thread, lots of posts have gone.

Really? From where I sit, New Zealand seemed to completely fall off the internet yesterday, and this morning I was able to open the Public Address front page, but none of the threads would open until five…

]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:57:30 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281051#post281051 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=281051#post281051 something seems to have happened to this thread, lots of posts have gone.


Cat snap

]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 07:43:11 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=280801#post280801 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=280801#post280801 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:57:14 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=280792#post280792 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=280792#post280792 omething like this? Wouldn’t want that to happen, eh. :-)

Report
Actually, they are bloody gorgeous (sight & taste)sprinkled over a simple omelet-

]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:11:21 +1300 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=280782#post280782 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=280782#post280782 Garden By The Bay, so rumour has it. ]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:11:01 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279205#post279205 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279205#post279205 Here's a look around my new bonsai tree, it came with a friend

and moss around the bottom! :)

]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:57:19 +1300 ChrisW https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279194#post279194 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279194#post279194 If you don't harvest the buds, they open to stamens of the most intense blue. Like a giant thistle, which they essentially are
Something like this? Wouldn't want that to happen, eh. :-)

]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:56:24 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279192#post279192 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279192#post279192 Melt some butter in this and eat it entire. Heaven!

Yum. Lunch, tomorrow.

]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:32:21 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279190#post279190 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279190#post279190 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:49:39 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279189#post279189 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279189#post279189 www.simply recipes.com Putting in. ‘How to cook and eat an artichoke’ as it has photos ]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:46:24 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279188#post279188 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279188#post279188 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:43:28 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279186#post279186 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279186#post279186 ...but don't try that in Amerika

Unless you happen to be the First Lady, in which case it's all good. Both Roosevelt and Obama...

]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:04:12 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279185#post279185 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279185#post279185 Victory Garden...
...but don't try that in Amerika

]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:49:39 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279183#post279183 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279183#post279183 I grew corn last year, took up a lot of space in my small garden, and I only got one cob per plant, Ive got a great row of beans and a small crop of potatoes in the same spot this year.
http://nigelgnomegrowsavegetable.blogspot.co.nz/2012/01/2012-and-alls-well.html
The wonder of the blog is that…

]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:03:16 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279182#post279182 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279182#post279182 The Dirtas...
Maybe all the companion planting worked...
the bane of Doctor Who's life...

]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:02:41 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279180#post279180 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279180#post279180 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:06:23 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279179#post279179 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279179#post279179 Casacornucopia...
I’ve got corn growing...
'ears lookin' atchoo kid...

]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:55:21 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279176#post279176 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279176#post279176 Lookit go!

I’ve got corn growing in my veggie patch for the first time….

]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:34:25 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279175#post279175 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279175#post279175 1. First of my summer reds.
2. The Victory Garden after 2 weeks of committed neglect.
3. Surprised at the extent to which this lettuce patch is putting out, considering that it was a plant-and-forget

Still got two beds to fill, building up the soil slowly. This garden is 100%…

]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:15:07 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279149#post279149 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279149#post279149 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:43:21 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279139#post279139 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279139#post279139 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:22:59 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279138#post279138 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279138#post279138 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:21:50 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279045#post279045 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279045#post279045 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:55:49 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279040#post279040 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279040#post279040 nod of this earth?
...more alien looking
the anorexic meerkats
watched and waited

]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 07:00:31 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279027#post279027 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279027#post279027 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:37:06 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279026#post279026 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=279026#post279026 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:36:06 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278947#post278947 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278947#post278947 Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:53:37 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278939#post278939 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278939#post278939 Stamen button

Rose on it’s way….

]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:37:26 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278938#post278938 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278938#post278938 Thank you Nora, high praise!
:)


A small friend on the edge of an hydrangea petal


and a show off harvest of beans!
:)

]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:28:25 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278909#post278909 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278909#post278909 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:27:36 +1300 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278908#post278908 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278908#post278908 You, sir, are making me wish I was living back in North East Valley or Opoho and could walk through the gardens almost every day again.

Great photos, in other words.

]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:10:51 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278902#post278902 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278902#post278902 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:22:09 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278901#post278901 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278901#post278901 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:21:21 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278900#post278900 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278900#post278900 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:21:37 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278865#post278865 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278865#post278865 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:47:36 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278857#post278857 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278857#post278857 Springish.....

Moonflower ready to go

]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:55:44 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278856#post278856 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278856#post278856 Springish.....

Angel's Trumpets

]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:55:13 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278849#post278849 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278849#post278849 Hi, Beam me up...
Here’s a close up of...
Travelling light ... the High Judges
of the Ood Federation arrive in
the transporter room!

]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:29:47 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278848#post278848 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278848#post278848 Beautiful velvet rose! And the lily in the pond!
Here's a close up of lily stamens

]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:20:41 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278838#post278838 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278838#post278838 Lilies in ...
....pound!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmkBroiw1s

]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:53:37 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278828#post278828 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278828#post278828 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:31:57 +1300 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278824#post278824 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278824#post278824 I thought I’d take a picture where high contrast was desirable.

It worked. That's a stunner.

]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:42:51 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278823#post278823 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278823#post278823 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:26:32 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278822#post278822 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278822#post278822 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:25:21 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278821#post278821 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278821#post278821 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:14:29 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278779#post278779 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278779#post278779 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 12:08:27 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278389#post278389 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278389#post278389 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:46:13 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278388#post278388 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278388#post278388 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:35:40 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278387#post278387 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278387#post278387 The last one is very nice and deep Nora, and your lilys are lovely David.
:)

I have beets in the ground and bounteous carrots

and a piss take on the close up of the leek flower :)

]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:33:53 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278367#post278367 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278367#post278367 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:26:38 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278354#post278354 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278354#post278354 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:16:54 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278223#post278223 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278223#post278223 Deepest reds to go with the beets….

The camera struggles to even register the depth of these reds….. trickery needed, (last pic) waiting till daylight almost gone and brightening pic again on computer….. That's more like it!

]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:28:08 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278208#post278208 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278208#post278208 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:11:22 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278195#post278195 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278195#post278195 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:12:44 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278190#post278190 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278190#post278190 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:50:01 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278189#post278189 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=278189#post278189 Like those dancing glads!
And the rose pinholed very much

I have a beetroot top to contribute
and red rainbow beet leaves
and a very close up of a leek flower ball

]]> Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:46:52 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277993#post277993 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277993#post277993 Give them a few sherries?

Just one small sherry leads to dancin glads.

Maybe a small sherry would slow Hilary's tadpoles down enough for a photograph?

]]> Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:50:04 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277990#post277990 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277990#post277990 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:53:06 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277984#post277984 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277984#post277984 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:32:30 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277976#post277976 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277976#post277976 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:07:44 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277966#post277966 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277966#post277966 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:49:38 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277965#post277965 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277965#post277965 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:49:15 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277964#post277964 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277964#post277964 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:37:58 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277956#post277956 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277956#post277956 Speaking of duck shit all over your lawn…

Chicken shit in the kitchen here; Bossy and Rocket are looonely now their two companions have carked it, so they come inside whenever they can. I count mysellf fortunate they do not want to sit on the couch and watch TV with…

]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:48:05 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277950#post277950 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277950#post277950 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:18:30 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277936#post277936 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277936#post277936 They don’t shit unless you scare them and I’ve been there done that. Its easier all round to let them have a wee snack and go on their merry way

Ditto!

I once had a pipiwharauroa/shining cuckoo roost in the top of the pole that holds up my roof (a…

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:41:44 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277927#post277927 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277927#post277927 I leave the door open because we have a dog! That is dog food not bird food. I throw out a bit of older bread for them over the deck, they still come back. Greedy lil' sods :)
They don't shit unless you scare them and I've been there done…

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:42:15 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277926#post277926 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277926#post277926 Suffice to say, thoughts went to birdshit everywhere.

You're inviting birdshit! I learned that the hard way when I thought it might be cool to let some lost ducks live on our back lawn. Pretty soon every exterior surface was covered in shit and I couldn't get rid of the…

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:27:23 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277907#post277907 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277907#post277907 Ben, these two hang out on our deck together all the time. None of my birds squabble ;) look at these 2 although not great photos ,you get the gist…
and forget the dirty floor.
The blackbird comes in every day when the door is open. I closed it one…

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:12:33 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277886#post277886 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277886#post277886 Yesterday, birds of a feather…

But....that's a thrush and a blackbird, mortal enemies?

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:30:26 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277840#post277840 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277840#post277840 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:15:35 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277838#post277838 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277838#post277838 like they’ve been penciled,

Nice

Yesterday, birds of a feather…

]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:10:33 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277837#post277837 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277837#post277837 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:58:47 +1300 Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277825#post277825 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277825#post277825 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:01:39 +1300 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277822#post277822 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277822#post277822 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:51:22 +1300 Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277801#post277801 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277801#post277801 http://io9.com/5967636/a-stunning-solar-eclipse-video-unlike-any-youve-ever-seen ]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:46:57 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277790#post277790 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277790#post277790 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:11:53 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277789#post277789 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277789#post277789 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:10:14 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277784#post277784 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277784#post277784 A rough patch

Burnished calendula

]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:16:54 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277690#post277690 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277690#post277690 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:45:04 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277688#post277688 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277688#post277688 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:17:08 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277687#post277687 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277687#post277687 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:12:34 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277686#post277686 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277686#post277686 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:09:28 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277631#post277631 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277631#post277631 Here's a roses are pink for you :)
from my morning workies walkies
there was an old one too
and a flax flower flaunting itself

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:46:52 +1300 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277630#post277630 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277630#post277630 Home is where the earth is?

Works for me.

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:25:25 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277629#post277629 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277629#post277629 a crazy mixed up place...
Home is where the earth is?

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:17:50 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277620#post277620 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277620#post277620 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:02:28 +1300 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277605#post277605 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277605#post277605 I think you need to come home for a summer.

No, we just had a summer, and for all my whingeing I actually prefer the winter. One can always put more clothes on....

"Home", heh, a rather troublesome little word.

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:02:43 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277604#post277604 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277604#post277604 Apparently we can look forward to a high of minus 1.

I think you need to come home for a summer.

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:26:02 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277600#post277600 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277600#post277600 Glad all over...
nanus...
or nanu nanu
for the more Mork minded
;- )

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:36:20 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277597#post277597 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277597#post277597 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:34:25 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277374#post277374 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277374#post277374 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:15:09 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277372#post277372 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277372#post277372 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:14:15 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277371#post277371 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277371#post277371 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:13:44 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277364#post277364 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277364#post277364 Gorgeous, as always.

There were also Eastern Rosella, but my hurried photos were a little out of focus

]]> Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:26:39 +1300 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277327#post277327 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277327#post277327 With a walk like that

Most of my Dunedin years I lived in North East Valley or Opoho, so walked through the Gardens most mornings. I remember it getting a bit muddy in the winter, but it certainly is a very pleasant commute.

]]> Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:11:20 +1300 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277325#post277325 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277325#post277325 A cold norwester seems a contradiction where I’m sitting.

Yeah, I bet your norwester doesn't cause frost to form on the insides of your windows. It looks much prettier with some sun behind it, but it's a grey sky today. Apparently we can look forward to a high of minus…

]]> Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:08:12 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277309#post277309 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277309#post277309 mornings walk to work through the Dunedin Botanic Gardens

Gorgeous, as always. With a walk like that I'd be very late for work each day, if I even got that far!

]]> Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:07:13 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277307#post277307 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277307#post277307 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:57:30 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277262#post277262 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277262#post277262 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:14:39 +1300 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277261#post277261 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277261#post277261 the northwester strengthened

I'm almost jealous. Our norwester has been doing the same strengthening, only it does the opposite temperature. Today's paper said minus 8 tonight. Today is not the first day the temperature failed to make it up to zero. I'm not sure whose norwester is drier, though. Almost…

]]> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:42:57 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277254#post277254 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277254#post277254 For the dandy lovers….

night falls on doused dandelions….

No doused dandy-lions here today. A blast furnace heat; and I have spent the day fretting about my boys who climbed Mount Herbert and are spending the night up there in bivvies. An adventure for them; mum-moments for me as the…

]]> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:21:58 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277251#post277251 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277251#post277251 Ah, we are in the future after all!

And it's oh so 80's ;)

]]> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:00:47 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277250#post277250 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277250#post277250 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:50:25 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277248#post277248 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277248#post277248 What building is that top picture Nora?

Think it's this one. On the corner of Aotea Square. The Imax Theatre. Metro Building.

]]> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:27:17 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277247#post277247 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277247#post277247 For the dandy lovers….

night falls on doused dandelions….

]]> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:11:32 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277246#post277246 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277246#post277246 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:59:24 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277230#post277230 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277230#post277230 Hope you’re doing well Sofie B.

Oh you know me JP. Well busy. Back in Aux for a few days to sort stuff out then back up for Xmas. It's a good busy though. Got a nice couch heading north next week. Of course the roof first was debatable. But…

]]> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:45:25 +1300 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277228#post277228 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277228#post277228 Real nice Nora.

Hope you're doing well Sofie B.

]]> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:25:32 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277222#post277222 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277222#post277222 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:34:15 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277190#post277190 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277190#post277190 Stella has staff, Billy ,
and the view from up there is notable, I thunk. :)

]]> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:17:06 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277156#post277156 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277156#post277156 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:46:39 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277152#post277152 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277152#post277152 Beautiful Sofie.

Beauty on a damp day….

]]> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:14:16 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277122#post277122 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277122#post277122 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:57:13 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277121#post277121 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277121#post277121 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:50:30 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277117#post277117 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277117#post277117 And I have tomatoes…

Oooh, jealous. Please apply this response to all pictures from your great looking veggie garden : )

]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:03:59 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277116#post277116 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277116#post277116 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:55:24 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277115#post277115 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277115#post277115 Lovely as well, a watercolour look perhaps

Here's my beans and potatoes contre jour...

]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:54:23 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277069#post277069 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=277069#post277069 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:53:23 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276997#post276997 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276997#post276997 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:50:06 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276996#post276996 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276996#post276996 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:39:49 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276995#post276995 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276995#post276995 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:24:52 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276993#post276993 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276993#post276993 Yep it's all go1

some zinnias

]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:22:31 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276954#post276954 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276954#post276954 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 20:44:41 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276861#post276861 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276861#post276861 aka the tone lowering Paula ‘Zip it, sweetie’ Bennett
– Parliament morphs into Outrageous Fortune

I have often thought that Sweetie Bennett is modelling herself on Cheryl West...So who in the government is Wolfie? Munter? Van?

Hah: just saw the “pillock-box hat”. Ooh you are awful.

]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:25:42 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276786#post276786 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276786#post276786 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:40:57 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276778#post276778 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276778#post276778 Leopardskin pillock-box hat...
Feral passionfruit. Westies?
Feral Westie ...
aka the tone lowering Paula 'Zip it, sweetie' Bennett
– Parliament morphs into Outrageous Fortune
and Lockwood Smith, thinks that the upper sixth form prefects
can just set any old example of disresepect they like...
No detention, no pull your socks…

]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:33:02 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276758#post276758 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276758#post276758 It made the bottom of the clouds go all soft this evening

Did somebody shake the clouds instead of the camera?

]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:48:29 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276757#post276757 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276757#post276757 passionfruit.

Feral passionfruit. Westies?

]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:41:08 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276755#post276755 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276755#post276755 There's a baleful moon at the moment

I don't have my proper camera home :(

]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:10:32 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276753#post276753 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276753#post276753 It made the bottom of the clouds go all soft this evening

More space jellyfish! Or perhaps virgas (?virgae) – rain that never reaches the ground.
Lovely shot.

]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:55:40 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276752#post276752 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276752#post276752 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:28:40 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276751#post276751 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276751#post276751 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:26:45 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276750#post276750 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276750#post276750 Unbridled passionfruit.

Killer space jellyfish, I reckon. :-)

You're the fruit of a forbidden passion! You're a forbidden passionfruit.
Red Dwarf

]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:20:08 +1300 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276749#post276749 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276749#post276749 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:04:36 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276748#post276748 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276748#post276748 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:46:12 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276746#post276746 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276746#post276746 We could elevate to 110% I’m sure.

Or 200%, let's go hard!

]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:17:51 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276745#post276745 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276745#post276745 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:06:30 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276741#post276741 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276741#post276741 This thread is 100% pure bloody brilliance.

We'll try harder. ;-)

]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:46:47 +1300 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276658#post276658 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276658#post276658 This thread is 100% pure bloody brilliance.

Carry on.

]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:40:54 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276625#post276625 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276625#post276625 I like the store ones Nora, and glad you guys like my gentle curl.
I just treated myself to a $150 50mm 1.8 canon lens and it is sharp as a pin and a pleasure to use. I had a short cheap extension tube on for this shot to get…

]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:24:37 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276620#post276620 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276620#post276620 Wow, are they real?

If you mean the pics above yours – only the top ones are real – the others are store window display.

That's a very delicately lit fern curl too : )

]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:50:19 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276619#post276619 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276619#post276619 A fern curl

How adorable!

]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:41:37 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276618#post276618 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276618#post276618 Wow, are they real?

A fern curl

]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:33:11 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276534#post276534 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276534#post276534 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:08:52 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276327#post276327 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276327#post276327 some flora that I’d never seen before

Top one pink-flowered native iceplant ( Disphyma australe )

Bottom one I think is native bachelor's buttons, possibly Cotula coronopifolia although there are many cotulas. :-)

]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:27:23 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276324#post276324 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276324#post276324 Hey Jackie, great to see your piccies, love that one above the toetoe, and love that 'slice of focus' effect on your camera too, gives all those planty pictures a lovely look.

And David, you mother's garden looks gorgeous : )

]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:24:32 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276320#post276320 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276320#post276320 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:09:23 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276319#post276319 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276319#post276319 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:07:45 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276294#post276294 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276294#post276294 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:08:29 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276293#post276293 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276293#post276293 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:07:06 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276240#post276240 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276240#post276240 aster rays eye
hint of summer too

]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:35:14 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276175#post276175 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276175#post276175 The sick scents

poppy…

I seed head people!

Ian, you are a poppy star.

from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep
Me too. Night all. :-)

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:23:06 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276174#post276174 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276174#post276174 The sick scents
poppy...
I seed head people!

]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:11:43 +1300 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276169#post276169 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276169#post276169 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:54:50 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276101#post276101 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=276101#post276101 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:27:59 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=275970#post275970 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=275970#post275970 another Gardens’ flower

Geum; Mrs Bradshaw.

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:54:24 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=275968#post275968 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=275968#post275968 Are you carrying some black-back-drop-cloth with you, or is it just conveniently dark in the Dunedin botanic gardens?

The later, more or less- It is a tree rich gardens, so if a flower is in direct sun you can probably line up an angle where the background is in shadow…

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:49:30 +1300 Nora Leggs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=275966#post275966 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=275966#post275966 Dunedin Botanic Gardens

I love your pictures David. Are you carrying some black-back-drop-cloth with you, or is it just conveniently dark in the Dunedin botanic gardens?

]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:38:47 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=275960#post275960 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=275960#post275960 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:30:50 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=275959#post275959 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=275959#post275959 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:29:44 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=275851#post275851 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-spring-is-like-a-perhaps-hand/?p=275851#post275851 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:38:07 +1300