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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Autumn is here24 May '08 7:49 am
Well-one could be excused for being gloomy when one gazes at the bedraggled mess outside.However there are some interesting things come our way sometimes.
The Waikato balloon festival was held recently.We are directly east of Hamilton,where the balloons all leave from so they usually arrive over our way.
Dixie.
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Looking over at our neighbour's where a ballon is just descending.
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I used the zoom to get this pic.A vehicle was following it so drove in to collect everyone later.
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This is from the other side of our house-several balloons were arriving at the town sports ground .
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Waikato fog24 May '08 8:02 am
The Waikato area where we live is known for its wet,miserable,gloomy,dreary,cold,FOG.Here is the first fog of winter..It must have been widespread as Auckland airport was closed all day as well as Hamilton airport-about 50 planes affected I heard.Sometimes the fog is around all day.It is foggy-not because of pollution,but because we are basin-shaped and the whole area used to be a huge swamp before the English settlers drained and cleared it all.
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From the back door.Looking towards the big cedar.Crepuscle still looking great.On the right,standard Deep secret.Below are weeds!
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Standing in the same place,looking down the path towards the pepper tree.
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Standing beside the path
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Still in the same place by the back door,looking straight out.
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I walked around to look down the driveway
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Waikato fog at its best {or worst !}from the front deck
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moosey
head gardener
Aargh!24 May '08 9:27 am
There's an obvious smart comment to be made here. If you've got fog, then you can't see the weeds so easily? Hee hee.
Since the big South Island snow dump which caught the weatherforecasters out they've become super-cautious. Rain warnings, snow flurry warnings, and so on. Now that all gets a bit gloomy...
Fog flurries, anyone?
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