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The southerly gets as strong as anywhere on the coastal side of the Otago Peninsula near Cape Saunders as these trees suggest!




Here is the full slide show.

Dad wished to be cremated and have his ashes interred in our garden, here in his beloved Dunedin. And so... this is the rose - Loving Memory it happens to be called, and given to us by Rosemary's co workers at Southern Audiology when Dad died, which sits along side him in a north facing spot in our garden.


For the occasion it flowered....

Unbelievable colour and growth in Dunedin. Spring 2008 has been spectacular....


Photo by Rosemary

Late blooming this year.... eventually it was more than cold enough.

Taken from the road to Five Forks, North Otago 10th August 2008......

The recently opened Chinese Garden in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Dunedin's Chinese Garden

Some info about the garden is provided in the album caption on Webshots.

Trip to Central Otago in July 2008. Selected shots from Clyde, Queenstown, across to Arrowtown, frosty Cromwell morning and down through the Maniototo...

This rather spectacular sunrise (unadulterated by software) on the 25th of June 2008......


and through the cherry tree...

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By dint of good fortune and an invite from Rosemary's sister I went to the Dunedin Camera Club recently to listen to Grahame Sydney - perhaps N.Z.'s currently best known practising artist. I use the term artist in its broadest sense since he talked more of his photographic and (now) movie work than his painting although he denies technical skill or expertise in these media.


Of greatest interest to me was his...

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