Some creative photoshopping (actually The Gimp-ing, but it doesn’t make as good a verb) on a photo I took a couple of days ago:

Um, you know that two pictures a day thing? I’ve decided I’m not very good at it. It’s only Day 4, and already I’m up to picture #13. Oh well, if I end up doing more than 50 pictures, that’s ok – I’m sure nobody complains if a NaNoWriMo project exceeds 50,000 words, so why…

I promised myself I wouldn’t just take photos for this project, but would force myself to dust off my art supplies, and despite my total lack of confidence in my abilities, put the result on public display. So here’s my first attempt, the product of a pleasant few minutes sitting in the garden. I’m not…

Yayyy!!! Good weather at last!!! But just one picture for now. Just to prove that I can take photos of something other than pretty flowers (and that we’re dreadful gardeners who forget to knock the old apples off the tree so they hang there until the wasps have completely hollowed them out): Who knew dried…

Remember what I was saying about saving pictures for a rainy day? Guess what – it was raining this morning. But it had cleared up a bit by the afternoon, so after work I walked home via the university’s wonderful Ilam Gardens, which feature one of the largest collections of rhododendrons in the southern hemisphere,…

I wasn’t entirely happy with the picture of the clouds I posted this morning, but I wanted my first picture to be of the sky, just because of the irony of the weather. All morning I kept finding myself drawn back to look at it again, sure there was a better picture in there somewhere,…

Typical. All this week the light in the mornings has had a wonderful quality that would have been fantastic for taking photos. I’ve been walking to work seeing the light shining through the new leaves, and imagining wonderful compositions of light and shade. I even thought about cheating and starting NoNoNoNo a few days early,…

Ok, I’m determined to get my diary up to date this time. Possibly… 🙂 I’ve had quite a few good catches lately (probably because of my recent increase in releases, although a few are from books I released ages ago): Kiwi Dads by Jo Malcolm, which was one of the books we left on the…

Um, so where did I get up to? Oh yeah, we were at rarsberry‘s hen night. The other thing we did to celebrate was to release some appropriately themed books around Dunedin (and a few leftovers on the trip back to Christchurch): On the Road to Mr Right by Belinda Jones outside a lingerie shop…

Isn’t it annoying when life gets so busy that you don’t have time to write diary entries, and then when you do get time, there’s so much to write about that you don’t know where to start, so you keep putting off writing anything at all, which means the amount of stuff you need to…