Seventeenth

The sun returned today, we walked in the Waitakere Ranges. I do feel so privileged to live so close to such an amazing area. We took an easy walk that we'd done before, the Upper Nihotupu Dam walk. A 5km easy track but you get a good work out is to be had from climbing the steps up the dam.

At the visitors centre

Bottom of the dam

Sixteenth

Despite the threat of more snow in Auckland (!), we layered up and took a walk in Duder Regional Park. We encountered the expected rain and an amazing amount of mud. The lambs however took most of our attention and the walk turned into a 'get a good picture of a lamb' competition between Adam and me. A brief stop for a warm tea and yesterdays jam drops kept us going.

OK, at the end of the walk

Time for tea

And Jam Drop

We took the other gate, so this little one could stay tucked up

My trusty, if a little dirty macpac

Fifteenth

Fifteenth, originally uploaded by KTandCoffee.

When I moved to New Zealand, my mum gave me this lovely jar - with 'a year of wishes for my daughter'. Three years on, I'm still not through all the wishes. Like a mothers love, just goes on and on. Thanks mum x

Fourteenth

Fourteenth, originally uploaded by KTandCoffee.

In the rain and wind I tackled a long neglected part of the garden. I have the scars and aches to prove that the weed I'm trying to clear is a far more powerful being than I! However, in the midst of the chaos, was this sign of spring.