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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
bricked area24 Jan '07 6:30 pm
The view of the finished brick area .
Dixie
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
24 Jan '07 10:32 pm
This is a magnificent garden art , dear Dixie! A really beautiful garden!
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gordonf
Happy Collector
Vancouver Island, Canada
Mosaic25 Jan '07 2:05 am
Dixie, what a great mosaic!! It must have taken quite a while to collect the required number of similarly-coloured stones for the different parts of it! I think it shows a lot of love and caring in your family!!
-gordonf
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pumpkin
compost executive
Auckland
28 Jan '07 7:09 am
Isn't it amazing... you can buy all the sculptures and builders and bricklayers you like, but nothing will ever be as precious as something you or yours have made with loving hands 
You are rich Dixie 
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
28 Jan '07 7:51 am
Pumkin, I would add,....unimaginably rich!
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
29 Jan '07 2:06 pm
Their garden is coming along beautifully. I love all the pictures. You and your family are very talented. 
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Visit to Wellington again9 Mar '08 2:16 pm
I have just returned from a visit to Wellington-this time having a digital camera I could take lots of pictures.We have a new grandson to enjoy and I helped in the home for nearly 10 days.
Dixie.
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Flying into Wellington
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As I have previously mentioned,the hillsides are very steep...the neighbours,like many others,have a cable car.this is by the road.
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this is at the bottom of the cable car.the neighbours can then walk across a really high bridge to their home-we have to walk along the steep paths
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to my family's home-it is a bit hard to find in the bush
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the track through the bush-under the neighbours footbridge
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this is looking up at the tree hut that the neighbours built for all the children to play in
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Arriving at my family's home
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some comfort in the sign that says'the road to the house of a friend is never long'
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from the deck watching the Cook strait ferries going in and out of the harbour
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corner of the deck with astelia growing in pot
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walking down the hill to the beach for a swim at nearly dusk.Son in law getts to carry boogieboard,buckets,spades,towells
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native flaxes and cabbage trees grow naturally beside the road.Agapanthus are planted along the road as well,and do well on the dry banks
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Down on the beach.A lot of people were out enjoying the warm evening.
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gordonf
Happy Collector
Vancouver Island, Canada
Wow!!9 Mar '08 5:33 pm
Wow! What a wonderful place in which to live, Dixie!! Cablecars to get to the houses!! How do they get water up there?? And what a wonderful sign once you get there! Your family is very lucky, but I can't help wondering about the "down" side of living in such an inaccessible place - what about fire protection, ambulances, etc.? But on balance, it's a place I think I'd be very happy to live in!
As for my dreams of intentional communities, it's only about three weeks until I get to visit the valley in the Interior where I hope to settle. My contact person in the village phoned me this morning to touch bases with me. He seemed as eager for the meeting as I am, so I think it should be a good visit. I'll take pictures and post them when I return.
Cheers!
gordonf
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Mark
Home gardener & plant fetishist
Berkeley, California, USA
How interesting!10 Mar '08 4:04 am
Cable cars, treks through the brush and sea kayaking? Elementary! I'm guessing they're near the coast but up in a relatively undeveloped area that is also steep. Sounds like an adventurous bunch to me.
[Looking forward to seeing more photos from your trip too Gordon.]
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Mark
Home gardener & plant fetishist
Berkeley, California, USA
10 Mar '08 4:20 am
Okay, just discovered that there are three more pages to this thread! Now I'm caught up. What a wonderful, wonderful place to live. I agree with Pumpkin the tile inlays and brickwork will be something your little granddaughter can point to with pride as her and her grandmom's creation. Nice. I'm so glad you got the digital camera, Dixie, and thanks for bringing us along.
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