Now's the time to buy your sweetcorn! What about 8 for $4 or do you get a better deal buying 10? :-)
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Now's the time to buy your sweetcorn! What about 8 for $4 or do you get a better deal buying 10? :-)
Collect, Create and Roll
As part of the Hamilton Gardens Summer Festival this temporary sculpture on the Turtle Lake boardwalk titled Collect, Create and Roll has been put together by Hamilton artists Gaye Jurasich and Sarah Anderson with the help of the public who could go along with their plastic bags and help tie them all on.
The idea is to create the largest plastic bag fence in New Zealand . The bags blow and rustle in the wind in a display of colour and movement. After a few days the bags will be untied and rolled up into a gigantic ball for display.
"It is hoped that using such a problematic material will draw attention to environmental issues and create a powerful statement, especially when viewed as a cohesive whole," says artist Carole Shepard.
"This ubiquitous everyday object floods (and clogs up) our daily lives and damages our environment. We hope to encourage discussion amongst the public about the relationship between the environment and art, and also to encourage visitors to consider the space as more than just a walking place.”
The Bombay Hills
The Bombay hills act a divide between the Auckland and Waikato regions. As you head south from Auckland to Hamilton the main highway (State Highway 1) traverses these hills.
This shot is taken going down the Bombay hills on the southern side heading towards Hamilton. If you take a left here onto State Highway 2 it takes you to Tauranga and the Coromandel Peninsula region, a well known recreation area of beaches and bush. Go straight ahead and the town of Pokeno is 1 km ahead and Hamilton is about 85 kms further on.
According to Wikipedia the Bombay Hills are named after the ship Bombay, which landed in Auckland and bought settlers to the area, originally called Williamson's Clearing, in 1863. The ship itself was named after the Indian city of Bombay (now Mumbai).
Spot the duck
Here's some kids at Lake Rotoroa (Hamilton Lake) checking out the ducks. The lake is situated right in the heart of Hamilton City. It has a 4km walkway around it that takes you right around on a mixture of paths and boardwalks.
Fly on a Peg!
Spotted this fly sitting on one of the pegs on the clothesline this morning. I hadn't realised they were so colourful.
Evening Sky
I took this last Wednesday evening at about 8.30 PM from my house. It only lasted a few minutes and was gone. No sky like that today in Hamilton, it's pouring with rain :)
Wedding Rides
Chevrolet Fleetmaster
PontiacSpotted these fine looking cars all decked out in wedding ribbons at the Hamilton Gardens.
They don't make 'em like that anymore! :)
Fountain Fun
Some 'kids' having fun splashing each other at the fountain in the Central Piazza, Hamilton Gardens.
Between The Flags
Lifeguards patrol the western end of Ngarunui (Raglan) Beach during the summer months. It's recommended to always swim between the flags as there can be strong undertows making swimming dangerous especially on the outgoing tide.
Indian Char Bagh Garden
The Indian Char Bagh Garden at Hamilton gardens is in full bloom at this time of year and is a blaze of colour.
According to the Hamilton Gardens web site the 'Char Bagh' or 'enclosed four part' garden was the original 'Paradise Garden'. It is sometimes known as the 'Universal Garden', not only for its widespread and long period of use, but also because it was regarded as an icon for the universe itself.
This form of garden spread throughout the Muslim world between the 8th and 18th centuries. The complex symbolism behind this form of garden has its very ancient roots in three of the world's great religions - Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
The Mughals brought Persian inspired gardens to the Indian subcontinent - many were developed during the 16th and 17th centuries. The type to be developed at Hamilton Gardens is the 'Riverside Garden' with a plan very similar to the Taj Mahal, but on a very much smaller scale. A small hunting palace near Agra, called Lal Mahal, has inspired the Hamilton Garden's 'Char Bagh' garden.
The Indian char bagh gardens were not just places to walk through. They were poetic, secret pleasure gardens, with senuous perfumes of flowers in a living Persian Carpet and the sounds of water in fountains and pools.
source: www.hamiltongardens.co.nz
Farmers Market
Every Sunday from 8am until noon local farmers gather at the Wintec Carpark Collingwood St Hamilton to sell fresh fruit and veges, specialty breads, pastries, honey, preserves, organic meats and more.
You can talk to the growers, taste the goods or enjoy some hot food and fresh coffee. A great way to spend a Sunday morning.
Under The Bridge
Here's a view underneath the Victoria Bridge (built in 1910) that crosses the Waikato River in Hamilton.
Parched Land
With little to no rain in the Waikato region lately the countryside is starting to look quite brown.
English Garden
A water fountain in The English Flower Garden at The Hamilton Gardens.
The English Flower Garden is one of the six Paradise Gardens each representing major garden design traditions. There were a range of European styles for which the primary purpose was the display of flowers and collections of plants.
The English Arts and Crafts style (also referred to as the New Georgian Style and the Natural Style) was chosen to represent the tradition because it has been the most enduring, distinctive and aesthetically successful. Many notable gardens in this style have been created throughout the 20th century, but the period from 1870 till the Great War is generally considered to be the golden age, and the gardens of the period are often referred to as 'the gardens of a golden afternoon'.
source: Hamilton Gardens
Sand Bug
Spotted this little guy on Ngarunui Beach at Raglan 50 KMs West of Hamilton. You can hardly see him as is so well camouflaged against the sand. To get an idea of how small he is look at the size of the grains of sand :)
Corn
A corn field at the Hamilton Gardens Kitchen Garden which is part of their productive garden collection.
Corn as we know it today would not exist if it weren't for the humans that cultivated and developed it. It is a human invention, a plant that does not exist naturally in the wild.
Scientists believe people living in central Mexico developed corn at least 7000 years ago. It was started from a wild grass called teosinte.
From Mexico maize spread north into the Southwestern United States and south down the coast to Peru. About 1000 years ago, as Indian people migrated north to the eastern woodlands of present day North America, they brought corn with them.
When Europeans like Columbus made contact with people living in North and South America, corn was a major part of the diet of most native people. When Columbus "discovered" America, he also discovered corn. But up to this time, people living in Europe did not know about corn.
source: www.campsilos.org
Tai Chi
Tai Chi at Garden Place in the CBD Hamilton.
Tai chi chuan is an internal Chinese martial art often practiced for health reasons. Tai chi is typically practiced for a variety of reasons: its soft martial techniques, demonstration competitions, health and longevity.
Consequently, a multitude of training forms exist, both traditional and modern, which correspond to those aims. Some of tai chi chuan's training forms are well known to Westerners as the slow motion routines that groups of people practice together every morning in parks around the world, particularly in China.
source: Wikipedia
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