Walking ++ not in the 'hood
It's Friday and it turned out to be a brilliant Spring - 2 - Summers Day so I make an effort to visit with Ngaire in Newmarket. The gallery email showed the Beach Boys and I wanted to see them up close! Whilst I was there one of their regular clients called from all places Florida, USA about buying the Penguins - another of the pencil on archival paper...
https://exhibitionsgallery.co.nz/
Anyway here are some photos from various places:
New Lynn railway station - the train is arriving, not the one I'm getting...going West
Believe it or not - here it is going further West. The trains are drivable each end and this train was 2 trains long i.e. 6 carriages
I've travelled to Grafton Station and I'm walking down Khyber Pass Road to Newmarket
and I see some nice flowers!
ditto further down, I'm almost at Newmarket
When I left the Gallery I stopped here on Broadway a relatively big junction
Then I bus over to Kingsland and there beside an old church is this bed of brightness
This is the Kingsland railway station - it is a strange combination of stairs and overhead bridge
I've cross over from that side via the overhead bridge and lift and I'm waiting for my train
Kingsland is adjacent to Eden Park where the majority of the last Rugby world cup was hosted, of course such venues are almost closed now due to "restrictions on gathering numbers"
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That's all for today but I hopped off the train at Avondale, walked down to the main drag there and caught the bus out to New Lynn. Then within 15 mins on the #186 with a bit of a walk from another street
The reason I stopped and restarted was because of the mask...I get overwhelmed in and I need a short walking break here and there.
But there was a plus today, have no idea how it happened but my glasses didn't get fogged up...at all!
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And now it's gonna be the weekend...let's see what I can achieve :-)
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and as soon as I got there, there was a hug and one when I left...
That's quite an accomplishment to not have your glasses fog up from the mask. I hate that part of it.
I think I read somewhere that we get agitated so much with the fogging it makes it worse. And if you can try to breathe slowly but normally (whatever that means) it's not so bad. Of course, every now and then "me and mask would get into a bit of an argument" that meant it was time to alight from the public transport and take a breather, i.e. walk some...
tammy: some days on the local 'hood routes they don't feel like an adventure. But I do look out for changes to anything I've photographed before. Often something just as interesting nearby. So like bulbs - you see a little "head" coming up and then bingo a few days later you've greeted by a whole load of blooms. Over the winter time those beds of daisies are just lovely pieces of something green...and then there are!
If I lived in the city where these lot mostly were - actually Khyber Pass had a lot of beds, I would be snipping some for a vase. I was tempted but I new they wouldn't have lasted the whole trip...
thanks for the hug!