Ōtautahi / Christchurch Daily Photo

It’s officially the last day of Autumn today and we’ve had lovely weather – lots of sun and blue skies and about 16 degrees. So there were lots of people out enjoying the Coastal Pathway that runs along the estuary by McCormacks Bay. Eventually the pathway will go all of…

Today I had a quick look inside the new bus exchange that opened last week. The exchange is going to be developed further with shops added to it later on.

The mountains this morning. If the weather forecasters are correct, there could be a lot more snow on them by Monday!

I went looking for more Monarchs – this time by the Ruru Cemetery – specifically in the Cyprus Garden Reserve which I’d never walked through before. The Monarchs are there, but they are really high up in the trees.

We had a pretty pink sky about 7am this morning. I can never see a pink sky without thinking of the rhyme “red sky in the morning, shepherds’ warning… red sky at night… shepherds’ delight”.

I went to the Edmonds Factory Garden this morning with my photo club and while the objective was to take garden photos we discovered that there were monarch butterflies in the large willow tree. It was quite breathtaking watching them.

Early Morning by the Heathcote River on Richardson Terrace.  

I snapped this with my cellphone today while walking back from a meeting. When I’d left to go to the meeting it was about 16 degrees and very pleasant. An hour later and things were looking very menacing! I fortunately got back home before the storm hit.