Dawn

Staggering into the kitchen one morning I happened to glance up. How could resist getting the camera out for such a sunrise. Autumn is on the way, the mornings are getting darker. But who could complain when there are such beautiful sunrises to see.

Very early morning flight - never again

My eldest has been visiting for a couple of days. This morning he was flying off back to University.
His flight was at 6:40am, which did not sound to bad. Until I worked out to get him there on time I had to get up at 4:30am. Never ever again. The upside was being able to take some cool sunrise snaps.

Summer Hols

We have been on a short holiday to Mt Mauganui in the Bay of Plenty. Above are some snaps of things that caught my eye as we were wondering around the town.
We spent a lot of time splashing around in the pool and the sea.

Walking on the beach at sun rise. Amazingly beautiful.

There were a lot of sea gulls.

Some beautiful shells on the beach.

And a cool walk around the the mount. We were too lazy to walk up the mount, but the views walking around the base were so beautiful, I don't feel so guilty. Especially the little shell beaches that we would never have seen otherwise.

And a lot of sitting in cafes enjoying the view, and yes I do mean the baldy guy sitting opposite me.

Sunrise

I had trouble sleeping last night and found myself wide awake and ironing at 4am in the morning! At least that was one job out of the way. After taking a few pics of the sunrise I staggered back to bed and managed to get a few hours sleep, before heading off to the market.

Sunrise

Just to even out the sunsets here is some of this mornings sunrise with a little fingernail moon. You might have to click on the pic to actually see the fingernail moon.

More early morning mists from my morning walk.

Sunrise this morning. I could not make up my mind which pic to include so here they all are. Which do you think is the best.

The sun rising behind Te Mata Peak was so beautiful yesterday morning I have just had to include so many snaps. There was a little bit of mist and some lovely fluffy clouds, really stunning. I know it looks like the hills are blurry, but they really did look that way. The last snap is of the valley behind me full of mist.

Sunrise yesterday. I took this snap turned round for a second, turned back to take another pic, and the pink clouds had gone.

Just had a great time in Auckland at the Calico Christmas quilt show, with the ladies from Kierunga Quilt group. We were treated and spoilt all weekend. It was brilliant to just let sombody else do the organisation, especially when they did it so well. Thank you to Shirley and Colleen for making it such a good time. And thanks to all the other ladies for all the goodies passed around.
The first view is of the sun rising, taken from my hotel room. The second is from a room at the front of the hotel over to Auckland CBD. The hotel is the Byron on Spencer, a nice tidy comfortable place to stay on the North Shore.

Sunrise through the pines at about 7:30am this morning.