Post by jon on Dec 1, 2017 20:36:23 GMT 12
Sunset over Island Bay Post your pics too!
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Post by Owen Y on Dec 2, 2017 8:42:40 GMT 12
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Post by jon on Dec 2, 2017 12:05:56 GMT 12
From my deck at home
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Post by Owen Y on Dec 2, 2017 13:27:01 GMT 12
Ah yes, so I am told
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Post by Graham on Dec 2, 2017 13:52:07 GMT 12
View from my living room window over the Manukau at low tide. We feel very lucky to be so near this ever changing harbour.
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Post by Graham on Dec 2, 2017 14:30:01 GMT 12
Even more spectacular from upstairs master bedroom window. We have lived here for 6 years now and are still blown away by the view every morning.
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Post by jon on Dec 2, 2017 17:27:19 GMT 12
Lovely view!
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Post by jon on Dec 13, 2017 20:37:29 GMT 12
My boy took this shot with my camera.
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Post by cooksferry on Dec 14, 2017 6:06:28 GMT 12
We have a lot of flowers on our section and enjoy seeing the bees busy at work In summer we do have a problem with Bumble bees getting stranded in the conservatory and there are numerous rescue missions conducted to get them out side before a spider web claims them.
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Post by cooksferry on Dec 14, 2017 6:17:40 GMT 12
Inner city living doesn't give many spectacular views but I like this one, taken from my favourite couch in the conservatory. Unfortunately the blossom always arrives the same time as the spring winds so it doesn't last long. I fight a constant battle with the Bay tree in the right of the photo. At one time it was as high as the house. Quite how many Bay leaves are needed for a pasta sauce is beyond me but I'm sure it didn't need a five metre tall tree.
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Post by sub on Dec 14, 2017 7:56:48 GMT 12
Lots of flowering trees on our 2 acres, plenty of bees as at least three commercial apiarists have hives nearby. Tui and wood pigeon love them too. Grey warblers abound as well, and shining cuckoos come every spring to lay in their nests! The view is from the French doors of our living room.
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Post by cooksferry on Dec 14, 2017 8:11:52 GMT 12
Lots of flowering trees on our 2 acres, plenty of bees as at least three commercial apiarists have hives nearby. Tui and wood pigeon love them too. Grey warblers abound as well, and shining cuckoos come every spring to lay in their nests! The view is from the French doors of our living room. Very nice. Benefits of living up north, a much greater variety of flowering shrubs and trees. I'd love to be able to grow stone fruit here.
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Post by Owen Y on Dec 14, 2017 8:33:28 GMT 12
As I recall (from the days in a fruit shop) NZ's finest apricots & cherries come from Otago.... apparently they like a bit of a frost, but is Southland a bit too wet & cool?
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Post by sub on Dec 14, 2017 9:41:32 GMT 12
As I recall (from the days in a fruit shop) NZ's finest apricots & cherries come from Otago.... apparently they like a bit of a frost, but is Southland a bit too wet & cool? Most stone fruit do well with a bit of frost over the winter. We live up high, just above the frost line, and while we do grow peaches, loquats, plums, cherimoya, white sapote, feijoa, tamarillo, bananas and a range of citrus, the best stone fruit crop comes after the frost is hard enough to affect us - which has only happened once in the 7 years we have been here. Brown rot is the worst problem for our peaches, but we are luckier than most around here as we live on a ridge with plenty of breeze to keep the problem in check. Yes, the subtropical North is able to grow a lot, but my best vegetable garden was when I lived in Rotorua. The cold and frosty winters killed off a lot of the bugs, such as passion vine hopper, that can plague us up here! +1 to Otago apricots, we like to buy a box when cheaper at end of season and preserve them. Otago cherries are the best too, but at $19 a 700gm punnet at PaknSave too dear for us!
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Post by sub on Dec 14, 2017 9:55:11 GMT 12
Very nice. Benefits of living up north, a much greater variety of flowering shrubs and trees. I'd love to be able to grow stone fruit here. Southland has its benefits, too. A guy named Guyton, who writes articles published in nz lifestyle and gardening mags, has a very impressive orchard of heritage fruit trees at Riverton.
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Post by jon on Dec 14, 2017 10:15:26 GMT 12
Currently eating lots of Apricots...
If you preserve the apricots as a jam, drop in some almond essence for maximum effect! Turbo-charges your jam to something really lovely.
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Post by cooksferry on Dec 15, 2017 6:12:17 GMT 12
As I recall (from the days in a fruit shop) NZ's finest apricots & cherries come from Otago.... apparently they like a bit of a frost, but is Southland a bit too wet & cool? Most stone fruit do well with a bit of frost over the winter. We live up high, just above the frost line, and while we do grow peaches, loquats, plums, cherimoya, white sapote, feijoa, tamarillo, bananas and a range of citrus, the best stone fruit crop comes after the frost is hard enough to affect us - which has only happened once in the 7 years we have been here. Brown rot is the worst problem for our peaches, but we are luckier than most around here as we live on a ridge with plenty of breeze to keep the problem in check. Yes, the subtropical North is able to grow a lot, but my best vegetable garden was when I lived in Rotorua. The cold and frosty winters killed off a lot of the bugs, such as passion vine hopper, that can plague us up here! +1 to Otago apricots, we like to buy a box when cheaper at end of season and preserve them. Otago cherries are the best too, but at $19 a 700gm punnet at PaknSave too dear for us! Every year around late January wife and I do a nice round trip up through central and pick up fruit, mainly apricots, for jam. It's a nice run in fine weather in the MX5 over a couple of the more interesting roads, Roxburgh to Alexandra and Cromwell to Frankton via the Kawarau Gorge. Unfortunately on the later road you do need constant vigilance for errant tourists. Had some magic runs through there on my Norton Commando back in the day.
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Post by cooksferry on Dec 15, 2017 6:20:19 GMT 12
Not a view from my window just a couple of photos taken on my walk to work last week. I have several routes from home to work and one of them takes me through parkland 90% of the walk. At around 6.30 am the light and air offers promise of a good day, lots of birds , a few rabbits and some trout in the Otepuni stream. I can almost forget that I'm in the heart of a city of 50,000 people. upload image losslessupload photo link
ps. this thread needs some shots from Foveaux from his hillside den.
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Post by foveaux on Dec 16, 2017 11:14:25 GMT 12
Flushed out by Cooks, Dear audio adviser, On hot days when I open the sliders, I get the 'very convincing' sound of a jet aircraft travelling left to right through my soundstage, it only lasts about 45 seconds and happens intermittently - its on all sources, could my electronics be faulty? looking forward to your suggested solution/s
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Post by jon on Dec 16, 2017 13:13:06 GMT 12
With such a magnificent visual stage, a little audio interference should not be worried about...
:-)
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Post by cooksferry on Dec 16, 2017 13:23:11 GMT 12
Flushed out by Cooks, Dear audio adviser, On hot days when I open the sliders, I get the 'very convincing' sound of a jet aircraft travelling left to right through my soundstage, it only lasts about 45 seconds and happens intermittently - its on all sources, could my electronics be faulty? looking forward to your suggested solution/s almost worth putting up with the holiday chaos for the back drop.
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Post by jon on Jan 1, 2018 20:40:43 GMT 12
The cat sat on the pillar!
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Post by Citroen on Jan 2, 2018 13:14:29 GMT 12
So envious of all your situations. All I have is a view of the neighbours But I content myself with the soundtrack to "A Room With A View"
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Post by jon on Jan 2, 2018 14:31:54 GMT 12
Hmmmm....
An Aura with multiple arms! Beats my view!
[it is an Aura?]
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 16:21:57 GMT 12
The cat sat on the pillar! Which makes a caterpillar, no? 😖 Looks like a pretty typical island bay backyard to me... spent 10 years landscaping in Wellington and I don’t miss those hills one bit...
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Post by Citroen on Jan 3, 2018 14:11:03 GMT 12
Hmmmm.... An Aura with multiple arms! Beats my view! [it is an Aura?] I dunno. I would love to live with a view of water such as yours! Yes, its an Aura A view of Rangitoto from a rellies kitchen window.
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Post by dc4 on Jan 4, 2018 12:05:04 GMT 12
From the front deck:
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Post by dc4 on Jan 4, 2018 12:06:42 GMT 12
oops, that's way too big. Newbie mistake! Will try again
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Post by dc4 on Jan 4, 2018 12:16:10 GMT 12
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Post by Citroen on Jan 4, 2018 14:06:50 GMT 12
oops, that's way too big. Newbie mistake! Will try again No problems on my screen. Both images appear the same size. Where is that view from? Not only is a great view but I imagine the neighbours are a fair way away so you can happily turn up the hifi.
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