Or perhaps I could title this small slideshow, Places I Love…
I suspect, a life lived between Queenstown and Manapouri would please me, as much as I used to dream of a life lived between Italy and New Zealand, back when I liked the idea of forever summers.
But I suspect I had forgotten the joy of Fiordland rain pounding down, and the possibility of being curled up next to a good fire.
The photos below … Manapouri, with my little friend, Tui the Wonder Dog. The photograph of her at my feet … cosied up keeping warm, it was the place she always begins, when wanting to sit on my lap while I work at the computer.
There is a Manapouri Spring flower series. And a glimpse of Gemstone Beach, a much-loved south coast beach of mine now. St Clair beach in Dunedin, then a small taste of my life here in Queenstown.
The Fork & Tap cheeseboard, out in the pub garden … divine.
The wee orange, that tiny Toyota that takes me every place, parked down by the lake early one morning.
I’m grateful.
