{"id":35759,"date":"2018-07-30T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=35759"},"modified":"2018-07-30T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T20:54:10","slug":"inside-middle-earth-snapshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2018\/07\/30\/inside-middle-earth-snapshots\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Middle Earth: Snapshots"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Tis the bleak midwinter still, here “inside Middle Earth” (aka Nu Zild, aka Aotearoa — the “land of the long, white cloud”, aka New Zealand) so I thought I’d share a few snapshots from “around the traps.”<\/p>\n

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WW1 centenary monument, Rimutaka Crossing<\/p><\/div>\n

The view north, from Rimutaka Crossing:<\/p>\n

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Governor’s Bay, Banks Peninsular: the view is of Lyttelton Harbour:<\/p>\n

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Up close and personal: a Canterbury braided river, not far from the sea:<\/p>\n

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Looking upriver:<\/p>\n

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And for those who love gardens, something from the fabulous Hamilton Gardens:<\/p>\n

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“Concept” Garden: the plants are NZ natives<\/p><\/div>\n

The whakatauki or proverb inscribed on the wall translates as: “The human family lives on while the branch of the titoki falls and decays.”<\/em> To read more about the Concept Garden, click on this link: Hamilton Gardens — Concept Garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a closer look at that dirigible, seen in the distance in the previous photo:<\/p>\n

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And an old favourite of mine, the Russian belltower, ca. 16th-17th century style, that inspired the belvedere in Thornspell<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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So there you are, from North Island to South Island and back to the North Island again, or Here and Back Again<\/em>. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Tis the bleak midwinter still, here “inside Middle Earth” (aka Nu Zild, aka Aotearoa — the “land of the long, white cloud”, aka New Zealand) so I thought I’d share a few snapshots from “around the traps.” The view north, from Rimutaka Crossing: Governor’s Bay, Banks Peninsular: the view is of Lyttelton Harbour: Up close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35770,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35759\/revisions\/35770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}