Winter Walk

Sometimes (not very often!) it pays not to have a car. With an objective in mind, & a practical pair of trainers on my feet, I went for a walk....

Heading out of the suburbs towards the motorway

Fortunately there is a good path along the side of the motorway!

While I love open, airy spaces I'm not to thrilled at the prospect of getting wiped out by speeding traffic ;)

The plantings aren't too bad either, good use has been made of a lot of NZ native plants.

Toitoi

Ti kouka (Cabbage Tree)

Harakeke (NZ Flax)

Not so 'Native NZ' - beautiful Eucalyptus across the motorway

I could just see the snow capped mountains in the distance

Bare Poplars

Almost at my walks destination & heading back into suburbia

At least this suburbia isn't too built up. I tried to catch this horses attention.

Instead this lovely girl came over & visited me.

After a visit to the Garden Centre it was time to turn around & head home again, retracing my route 3km (1.8 miles) & heading back into the suburb  I live in.

Is it just me, or is there something rather incongruous about the bare trees & the tropical looking palms...

Oh I can almost see 'home' - not being used to trainers, my feet are ever so pleased!!

Still, sore feet or not, a lot of the sights would have been missed if travelling by car.

Pink is my "Favourite" colour

or in the words of Aerosmith:

Pink is my favorite crayon, yeah
Pink it was love at first sight
Pink when I turn out the light
Pink it's like red but not quite ......


Well maybe not quite! But almost!!

Certain people in this house at the moment seem to enjoy kidding me about pink being my new favourite colour.
It's not.
My favourite colour is still & will always be Burnt Orange, even though I have taken to temporarily wearing a shade known as 'Burnt Pink'.

The reason for their taunting & teasing is what I scored at the New Years Day picnic.....

A couple of days down the track it is settling down.
Yes, I managed to combat the icky head cold only to get myself a decent dose of sunburn...*SIGH*.
I know you've heard of Pink Grapefruit....well I can tell you that pink Kiwi 'aint quite the same ;o)