Nope, it’s not a typo. Sumner is one of the costal “suburbs” of Christchurch and very nice it is too.
This little bunch of snaps were taken on the 22nd August, and that’s the last week of winter here, give or take a day or two. Spring officially makes it’s grand entrance on the 1st of September, but as you can see, it looks like it’s already arrived. Sumner is a lovely place to live and it’s about 45 minutes from Lincoln, just a little too far to commute these days, where twenty minutes is as much as I can be bothered with.
This little patch of wild bush was on the way up the hill from Scarborough beach, the spring flowers out in force.
I little further up the hill, facing the sun of course, the bloom is out in force.
A lilly. Lovely. Thing is, it was slightly past it’s best, suggesting that spring had been around for longer than we’d expected. Hardly surprising that we didn’t expect it just yet, it’s still bloody winter.
Ah, the Red Army marches against the grey backdrop of the new industrial cities of the new China … perhaps not.
A close up of a tree. Hard to describe it better than that, I simply liked the texture of it and it looks much better on A3. You can simulate that effect by getting really close to your screen …
Delicious succulents. I love the way they do that …
A close-up of the sex organs of a plant, or is it one of those asexual ones? Not sure I want a picture of “that kind of thing” if it’s asexual.
Is there a happier colour than yellow? Not in this picture there isn’t.
Along Scarborough beach, there’s a cafe called Scarborough Fare. How clever is that? I wonder how many times people have asked that question: “Are you going to Scarborough Fare?”.
Winter? ….
Winter, my arse!