autumn in the park
Just as this time last year we’ve been wandering about in Masterton’s Queen Elizabeth Park.
We started, as always, with lunch at Café Cecille. It is under new management, and was a little more focussed and sharper on their game than in some of our previous visits. They do the usual café fare, but classily done, and I’d recommend the place. Especially if you’ve worked up a bit of an appetite wandering about the park.
And it the park is just beautiful in there at the moment.
The kids walked back with their grandparents, and Rebecca and I lingered, taking photos. We nearly filled up the memory card.
One last image to hold:
Idyllic. Pity we have to return to Wellington tomorrow.
Giovanni
29 April 2009, 12:00 #
I really miss deciduous trees and the colours of autumn. And then whenever I come across a a bunch in some park or another, my enjoyment is spoiled by the thought that it’s a visible sign of the colonial. Silly, neh? But those are really beautiful pictures and we’ll try to hit Masterton next year.
Alan
29 April 2009, 22:43 #
Why worry about colonialism in the face of such lovely colours?
Giovanni
30 April 2009, 12:09 #
It’s funny you should say that. I showed the piccie to my partner and she instantly recoiled. “It reminds me of Cambridge”, meaning Cambridge, Waikato, and its not a happy association for her, in that she can’t quite separate the memory of place with the culture that it’s a part of (and transplanting the English pastoral into New Zealand is a big part of that culture). But it was an automatic reaction, nothing that she had to really think about. She also reports loving the same landscapes when she encountered them in Europe, where they were indigenous.