Keeping Count

..:: Laptop Letters ::..

Fashion House

Modern architecture, proudly displaying the name of the company in big letters…

Low tide messages

These messages were fun to find!  The tide takes a really long time to come and go (unlike the North Island), so these words along the roadside were visible for a long time before being covered by the sea.

Microwave

I assume this is a mailbox, but we all know what assuming gets us....!

Alien in a box

A Cow on the Roof

Balloon in the Snow

Definitely out of it's surroundings.

I bought myself some flowers last weekend and they had the most beautiful, bright, yellow sunflowers in the bunch. I vowed to take them out and see the world of snow before they dropped a petal....and I did just that, today.

Digger

Spaceship

Postcards from Here and There

Sorry about the glare on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,

but I just couldn't seem to achieve an angle that eliminated it.

Moving clockwise from the RCMP it's Abu Dhabi, Texas, Ireland, Hong Kong, Ohio, Monterey, St. Louis, and Miami (in the center).

This is hastily grabbed handful from a much larger trove that I have acquired over a bunch o' years.

Alien!

John Deere green

Grandma's Postcard

Cow country

Greetings From Around The World

Beam me up, Scotty

Please stand for Hymn number...

This is less than half of my hymnal collection.

As a church music director,

I gathered a rather unseemly number

of music books of various kinds.

Hymnals were (are) a particularly

rich reference and source for inspiration.

You can even use them as a daily devotional!

Most of my collection is about to be adopted into another home, though.

Business Cards

Yes.

Business Cards.

I currently have over 50,000 in my collection.

These pictures are from a display at the County Fair a couple of years ago.

However,

I am now in the process of boxing up my collection and sending it

to another collector.

Believe it or not,

there is an International Business Card Collectors group.

From the kids, with love

Even after four years, the kids still gather rocks and shells for me every time we go to the beach. This is just a small portion!

Fashion Collection

Exhibition of a collection from the Textile Museum

Medical Collection

Collections of pill bottles and syringes at the Hospital Museum!

driftwood

I am constantly amazed at the driftwood found at low tide.

Collection of Tulips

May I take the opportunity to tell/remind you that I have recently also added to
my “collection of blogs” by moving my two main blogs to new addresses:
DawnTreader’s Picture Book continues as DawnTreader’s New Picture Book.
The Island of the Voices continues as Beyond the Lone Islands.

Colorful kayaks

Collecting Christmas Trees

A Choir of Angels

Cold Feet

Lake fowl

You get quite a collection of swimmers when they think you are going to feed them!

These little piggies...

...and friend at Brooklands Zoo in New Plymouth. (Photo stolen from by Hubby)

Going Back To Sleep After Christmas…

Inseparables at Rest

Phred

The late, great Phred the ginger ninja in his favorite position. He made himself at home anywhere he could see me.

Sleeping Like A Bear

This Bee is Napping...Really!

Bubba

This is our first cat who decided not to move with us. He had a phase where he slept on just about anything!

Any Questions?

Shadow, the Australian Shepherd.

..:: Solitary peace ::..

I know that there are no animals or people in this image, but this is the definition of "rest" to me.

Ducks at rest

These are a few of the 80+ ducklings that called our fish pond their home away from the nest!