A daily photo from Ōtautahi, Christchurch, New Zealand
For a few months now I ve been following the Facebook page has anybody seen Chase? which follows the exploits of Chase, a young city-dwelling black cat who lives not far from Victoria Square. He s become a celebrity with lots of people aware of who he is now which is a good thing as [ ]
Spring isnt far away! Though we are expecting some very cold weather this week.
I heard about these signs ages ago but never noticed them. Today I finally spotted the one in Cashel Mall. They look official but are obviously silly.
Yesterday, a friend and I took her dog for a walk through the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor. We got to the Dallington Bridge and realised it was the bridge we had both tried to find last year not long after it opened. It s quite a unique looking bridge. Its design is inspired by Mōkihi, a [ ]
I had to pull over to try and capture how stunning this view was. It was even raining. I noticed a rainbow on the other side of the bridge.
I m guessing these large trees are oaks. They are hosts for several small cabbage trees. Will be interesting to see what happens as they grow. You can see the trees near the Town Hall by Victoria Square.
For the last six or so weeks I ve been feeding the waxeyes using a wine bottle feeder I got from a market. I recently realised the bellbirds have found it. I m rewarded with bellbird song almost all day long they are never that far away. Interestingly, I ve noticed that when the bellbird comes down [ ]
Today, a friend and I attempted to do all the feed times at Wildlife Orana Park. They start at 10.45 with the Meerkats. Despite it being a sunny day it was surprisingly cold, especially when standing around. So we didn t quite make all of the feed times. So many wonderful photographic subjects, but I d have [ ]
A friend and I took her dog for a walk around the Dallington Landing area. This has recently been landscaped with thousands of native plants and is looking stunning (it s part of the red zone area). I ll go back some time and take some actual photos of the planting. For now, I was focused on [ ]
This time of year you get a really lovely light in the gardens around 2pm it was so lovely and serene and green walking around the New Zealand part of the gardens.
Note: This is an experimental blog post with an AI generated podcast a new service WordPress.com is offering to bloggers. Pip: Ōtautahi in the depths of autumn and winter — the city is apparently very busy attending stadium concerts, browsing secondhand bookshops, and photographing roses that have not received the memo about the season. [ ]
Steadfast Books used to be located on Ferry Road but moved to Wise Street in Addington as they were running out of room. And if you visit this wonderful book store, you ll soon see why they needed to expand. There are a lot of books! I ve been trying to read more lately, and have given [ ]