It’s been awhile I know, but here we go again posting.
I’ve done a web site revamp too so it’s accepting of more content that’s easily navigable. This blog thing did actually start out a work project… like many years ago I was asking myself; “what is a blog?”, little knowing I already knew. So then it became a challenge to play with SEO [search engine optimisation], but along the way it got a following and has turned into something I really quite enjoy tinkering with.
Here a few diverse photos all made this 2012 spring…
Recently spotted out walking. I’ve been doing some delightfully long ones of late…
Even being on my deck is quite a beautiful experience what with clematis and lilac …
Trying my hand at “panning” at a high speed urban downhill mountain bike race, held as part of the annual Wanaka Wanakafest…
Over on the coast on a dry day…
Lake Wanaka on a moody and damp spring time evening…
Working on my deck with my friend Bill, fixing the catcher for his ride-on mower…
Spring further west…
A few months back, just for fun and a change I took on a new job helping organise an inaugural Wild Hearts Festival here in Wanaka. An alternative sort of a gathering held over two days last weekend, but there was nothing alternative about the web site I built for it., and it logged 10,700 page views over 90 days. Many factors contributed, but that’s how it is with good SEO [search engine optimisation].
It was held at the Lake Wanaka Centre…
On the Sat. there was a big emphasis on activities for the children. As I entered the room little Elle in the green hollered out, “Hello Donald”, and it was so enthusiastic and from the heart I was quite chuffed. I’m not sure why, but we always seem to have a connection I find fascinating and rewarding…
This young lady was getting a “reading”, but what I was reading was her enigmatic Mona Lisa look…
Christine and Michael posing as a couple of people engaged in bartering…
Maree and Jen doing some yoga out in front of the old THC Wanaka hotel. A free session for festival goers…
Lastly I’d also like to pay tribute to my client/friend Dave Hall who passed away in tragic circumstances last Sat.
Dave was an aviator of a different sort: pioneer base jump and sky diver in New Zealand and California, a pilot and aircraft engineer, so it was very fitting that his send-off was in the Alpine Deer Groups hanger at the Wanaka Airport to a huge crowd of 500 I estimate.
Pall Bearers on the first walk to his last flight…
I really felt for Hamish taxiing here, taking his employer on his last flight. It was uncanny too: as a mark of respect the airport was in shut-down mode, but as ROK headed away you could have heard a pin drop, as a strong southerly wind meant there was no engine or prop noise to be heard. Hamish then did a slow fly by, then a fast one just above the runway, then climbed steeply in a big spiral, to 10,000 easily. That I tell you was a poignant farewell for me, of an amazing guy and husband and dad! My sympathies to Jools, Max and Maye
