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harvest moon

Posted 3. March 2007, 22:12 in by Alan Macdougall, received 4 comments.

As we swept around the corner the moon started rising over the hills ahead. It was stunningly beautiful, this large harvest moon, limned against a darkening purple sky.

harvest moon in the Wairarapa hills

We were driving back from the Bic Runga concert, coming into that long valley back road between Martinborough and Gladstone. If there was a place in the North Island that I had to live forever, it would be here: lightly native wooded hills, deep valleys full of bush, clean pastures, and a perfect building platform on every ridge you pass. And not over developed, either; just another country area with a few farms and the occasional vineyard.

I expect the people here are too canny to subdivide (if I had a thousand acres here I would be too) so it’s just a dream. But a nice one. This yellow moon makes it sing (a Neville Brothers’ song).




Comments

  1. Heck
    6 March 2007, 15:51 #

    Jessie got it right over at flickr: awesome.

  2. Alan
    6 March 2007, 20:52 #

    Thanks Heck!

  3. nikolien
    7 March 2007, 21:06 #

    Such a grogeous photo. That is one of my favourite roads too – also like the road between Gladstone and Middlerun, where we go to pick daffodils every spring. Now on another tack….I saw a spider in our yard last week – a really glossy like satin, black abdomen with a small red snip….any ideas? HAve you seen them at yours? It was under a planter bag…

  4. Alan
    8 March 2007, 07:03 #

    Have you got a photo? Email me and I’ll look it up in our spider book.

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