365 - To CAP it all off

364 - Slow and Steady

363 - Hydrangeas

I probably should have saved this till last (but maybe I'll do a closeup) as my very first 365 photo on January 1st 2010 was of the hydrangeas.

362 - New look geocacher

My geocaching friend was quite vocal on the placement of the first cache I found on Wednesday.

361 - Surplus to requirements

I think it's somewhat surplus to requirements - but it is reminiscent of what the track used to look like years ago when we first started walking it - much easier to bike these days.

360 - Cook

Experimenting with color splash - this was a display at our local Whitcoulls.

359 - Rhapsody on a theme

358 - Star Trek

357 - Evening Sky

356 - Secret Santa

355 - Xmas tree

354 - golden flax

353 - Exterminate

352 - Holiday reading

351 - Thanks

350 - Bosun's Pipe

An unusual present from a sailing mad student - one I'll treasure for a long time - a miniature boatswain's pipe (aka bosun's pipe) - now to practice playing it!

349 - Sleeping Dragon

Not the best picture I know - this was a present from one of my students. It will sit on my desk/teacher space next year I think.

348 - GB House

347 - Proud Mama

346 - Done and Dusted

Emma's graduation last night.

345 - Bookwork

I've been doing a huge amount of reading lately while dealing with some health issues. This book is a 'real' one instead of my usual ebooks.

344 - contrasts

343 - Black and Red

342 - 34

341 - Fungi

340 - Time to Move

339 - Black and White

I've been watching videos from this site: http://iphonecameraessentials.com/video-1/  -- learned lots already about my iPhone and iphoneography - the video i watched today was about black and white editing - this is my first try at it - using curves was a totally new experience - and i used a new app called filter storm.

338 - Waterblast

337 - Matangi

I finally got my chance to ride one of the new Matangi trains last night ... very crowded by the time everyone got in - glad I got a seat ... 

336 - Umbrella

335 - photog

Spent some time today getting some tips on iphoneography.

334 - Roses

333 - QR Raisins

332 - Chicken or Egg

331 - interesting building

330 - Voted

329 - Farewell

328 - Sunset

327 - Dragonsinger

This is not the image I was going to post today - but then I heard that Anne McCaffrey had died. I feel such a profound sense of loss. I loved her characters - so much so that when I needed a nickname to use on bulletin boards (before the internet was invented) I chose 'dragonsinger' (drgnsngr) - the character this book is about is a woman, a mother, a singer, a musician, and a teacher. At the time I chose the name I was all of these except teacher - now I am a teacher too. And I'm known to many as dragonsinger - the name has stuck! 

I'm closing my computer down and going to re-read (for the umpteenth time) Dragonsinger, Harper of Pern - and once again imagine myself soaring high on the dragons of Anne's imagination.

RIP Anne - I hope you're soaring on your gold dragon forever.

326 - Fort, fought?

325 - Purple

324 - Rusty View

Taken looking through a hole in a metal railway sleeper with the HDR Pro app.

323 - Close up

322 - still life

321 - Sea of yellow

I love this sea of yellow that greets me when I walk out of the learning street.

320 - Planting Season

I spotted these being planted yesterday by a neighbor - makes a difference to the tired lavender that was previously there.

319 - Roses