Category Archives: Portraits

Iris Interlude

Posted on November 23, 2020 by krikitarts

We are nearly at the end of my recalling our California road trip from six years ago, but not much very exciting or worth reporting happened on this day, when we drove the 506 miles (814 km) from San Francisco … Continue reading →

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Bless My Bloomin’ Bugloss

Posted on November 7, 2020 by krikitarts

Around a year ago we bought this plant in one of our favorite nurseries here in Auckland; we had some of these in our garden in Nebraska and were very fond of them. Its formal name is Brunnera macrophylla, and … Continue reading →

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Portraits: A Perfect Pair

Posted on October 26, 2020 by krikitarts

I was browsing through my file of favorite critter photos earlier today and came across this image that I made back in March 2018, at the annual livestock show that is held on the showgrounds in the little community of … Continue reading →

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A Pretty Pair of Poppies

Posted on August 9, 2020 by krikitarts

It had been raining lightly for various periods before and during our visit to the Auckland Botanic Gardens, four days ago now and of the overcast skies, of course, provided an ideal softbox effect for the myriad flora that grow … Continue reading →

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A New Cardoon Character

Posted on August 6, 2020 by krikitarts

It was a beautiful day here yesterday. There was a show of botanical drawings that CD was eager to see, as she’s enjoy8ing taking a class and some of the work of her teacher was included. It’s a drive of … Continue reading →

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The Oww and the Pussycat

Posted on June 30, 2020 by krikitarts

I’ve highlighted our Grands on several occasions recently, but it’s really been quite a while since I featured the smallest member of our family—and even longer, I believe, since I posted an actual selfie, rather than just including myself in … Continue reading →

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Menagerie Monday: The Talented Tui

Posted on April 5, 2020 by krikitarts

In the text of my post the other day (here) featuring the cheeky little Silvereyes, I mentioned that the other native bird that we love to see visiting and feeding on the blossoms of our abutilon is the tui (Prosthemadera … Continue reading →

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Menagerie Monday: Silvereyes, Spectacular Strangers

Posted on March 29, 2020 by krikitarts

One of our very favorite New Zealand birds is the Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis), also commonly known as the wax-eye. It’s a very small (12 cm / 4.7 inches) passerine songbird. It is officially considered a native, having self-introduced when a … Continue reading →

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Skeptical Saturday

Posted on March 20, 2020 by krikitarts

I started out to develop a new Silly Saturday post and, while I was looking through my archives of photos of our animal companions through the years, I came across this portrait that I made almost exactly 18 years ago … Continue reading →

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Flashback Friday: Twenty Years Ago Today

Posted on February 7, 2020 by krikitarts

Twenty years ago today I had just arrived in Japan on a work trip, eagerly carrying my first-ever digital camera, a bulky, 1.9-megapixel, Nikon Coolpix 950, with a 3x zoom lens, which I had bought between Christmas 1999 and the … Continue reading →

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