Miraz Jordan

These days we tap a button and a photo instantly appears. Back in the day a tintype photo took a lot of patience and messing about. Watch this fascinating 23 minute video to see a modern recreation. Recreating 19th Century Death & Mourning Photographs.

I haven’t been to the beach for a few days, but this morning’s visit was splendid. No wind, deep blue sky and ocean, clear air. And this fine horse and rider.

I have a few HTML files I’d like to be able to access from other devices. They’re really only for me. Meanwhile, GitHub has been a mystery to me. Today I followed excellent and clear instructions at Creating and Hosting a Personal Site on GitHub. Easy! My Te Reo reference site.

Magpies can be clowns. Spot the one hanging upside down, but twisting round to check me out. Moments later they were singing full throat together.

Most of the wild rabbits round here are brownish-grey. There’s at least one black one though, presumably decended from some escapee pet. The black one tends to hang out and play with a couple of the brownish rabbits. They’re fun to watch.

This morning we visited Te Horo Beach, a 26 Km 30 minute drive by road or a mere 11 Km along the beach south of us. It’s a rare ecological landscape though, being a shingle beach with a stony ridge. The colours were intense and the sea seemed a little wild. Windy too.

I didn’t manage the best photo, but I was so excited to meet a Saluki for the first time in my life. 3 years old and they can’t get him to eat so he’s skinny. So beautiful though. Especially from the angles I didn’t catch. 🐶

I biked round to the village today. It’s a tiny trip: 5.5 Km return, but stops me from getting completely out of the cycling way. The river was very still, and fairly low. A stand-up paddleboarder went past, and then two kayakers.

Visit to Foxton Estuary; White-faced Heron.

A visit to Foxton Estuary; 4 Canada Geese all in a row.