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Venison, steaks, salami, patties, sausages, bier sticks, bacon, bacon hocks, manuka smoked, peppercorn, garlic, chilli
Tamahere Country Market, near Hamilton, New Zealand
Tamahere, Waikato, New Zealand
Cortinarius carneipallidus (formerly Cortinarius subcalyptrosporus) is found in Nothofagus (beech) forest in New Zealand in the autumn months. The Wikipedia article on Cortinarius subcalyptrosporus claims that specimens of this in New Zealand are in fact Cortinarius kioloensis but this is incorrect. Cortinarius kioloensis is found under Leptospermum (Manuka or New Zealand Tea Tree).
The Tregothnan Estate in Cornwall has been breeding the rare Manuka plant (a native plant from New Zealand) since the 1880’s. Usually only in flower through June, the rare bushes are seemingly confused by the year's fluctuations in climate and are, in a bizarre twist, flowering now during our winter solstice, which ties in perfectly to the normal summer soltice flowering time over in New Zealand. Country File Magazine.
We were amazed to see the first flowers appear the Manuka plant in our South Wales garden at the end of January!
Now the bees are enjoying it through May and June.
Have a lovely Sunday everyone
♥ 爱情其实没有办法 不被感动吧 ♥
♥ There is no way not to be touched by love ♥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZi2hAOG_k
风轻轻 我听见你声音
你对着我叮咛
要注意自己的心情
雨轻轻 我听见你声音
你拿着伞靠近
为我遮着风挡着雨
一点点想哭泣
一点点想着你
你的爱很珍惜
我总依赖着你的记忆
你就像风在说话
顺着我方向
你就像海中的波浪
堆着我成长
我明白你的回答
温柔的对话
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View over the Rippon Vineyard to Lake Wanaka March 10, 2014 Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand.
We stayed in Wanaka two nights and it was lovely and sunny and very warm... didn't want to head home again!
Rippon Vineyard is situated on the shores of Lake Wanaka, Rippon Vineyard and Winery has the oldest commercial vines in Central Otago and one of the most stunning settings.
The first experimental plantings took place in 1975 and many people thought Ralph and Lois Mills were dreaming or mad. Despite the mostly negative opinions of the viticultural experts of the time, the climate data that Rolfe collected was encouragement enough for them to plant their first commercial vineyard block in 1982.
The Mills family still own and run the vineyard which has been in the family now for five generations. Their primary interest at Rippon is to foster wines which are a true and accurate reflection of their surroundings.
Granted custodianship over this very special piece of land, the family’s principle goal is to create vins de terroir, wines that are an accurate reflection of their surroundings.
It may seem an unlikely combination for one of New Zealand’s former top skiers to be head winemaker at a well-known vineyard, but for Rippon’s Nick Mills it is a perfect blend. In 2002, he returned home to Rippon after years spent competing in freestyle skiing and perfecting his craft in Burgundy.
Taken from and for more Info: www.newzealand.com/int/article/rippon-vineyard/
The weather was awfully glum with mists and low clouds and spatterings of rain. Now and then a bit of less gray. But there I was anyway on the very northern coasts of New Zealand's North Island. It's a really remote area and wild with steep inclines, sheer cliffs, long sandy beaches. And wild vegetation among which lots of Manuka, Leptospermum scoparium. Usually the flowers are white, but occasionally they're pink, such as this one.
Interestingly, Manuka honey - now so much on the tongue of health-food junkies - was not much eaten by the Maoris. But they did use Manuka shrubs and plants for various other purposes. Manuka honey didn't become a sought after agricultural product until European Honeybees were introduced here in the early nineteenth century.
Both insets were taken more or less from the same vantage point.
The righthand inset shows the lighthouse of Cape Reinga - Te Rerenga Wairu. It's one of the Maori's most revered places because this is where human spirits are thought to return to their Traditional Homeland. Much in the way and terminology of - say - the natives of the Cook Islands and other Polynesians as well. See my earlier www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/40645429071/in/photoli....
On the left is another northern cape of New Zealand. First European to sight it was of course Abel Tasman (1603-1659). He named it after that indefatigable woman Maria van Aelst (?-1674), wife of Tasman's patron, the governor of the Dutch East Indies, Antonio van Diemen (1593-1645). She was a force to be reckoned with and remade the governor's mansions at Batavia (now Jakarta) and Bogor (Buitenzorg) in a grand style. Moreover she had a way with men - she was widowed several times and happily remarried. No doubt our Abel had also been mightily impressed by her. Hence Cape Maria van Diemen.
Pure fantasy since I have started to have one teaspoon of the Manuka honey before retiring to bed. I started om January 1st and the quality of sleep is astounding. Saying that though, there is an enormous range of Manuka both in quality and price.
Before someone treated me to a couple of jars I never really liked honey on its own and even now just one teaspoon is enough for me.
Le Manuka est un petit arbre originaire de la Nouvelle Zélande qui produit de minuscules fleurs parfumées blanches ou roses, très recherchées par les abeilles. Le miel de Manuka est largement apprécié pour ses multiples propriétés hautement bénéfiques pour l’homme.
'Cause love will find a way
www.youtube.com/watch?v=azRd-cvU1oU
千万记得天涯有人在等你....
愿为你
直到有一刻能守着你的心
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Le Leptospermum Scoparium, Manuka ou Arbre à thé est un arbustee originaire de la Nouvelle Zélande qui produit de minuscules fleurs parfumées blanches ou roses, très recherchées par les abeilles. Le miel de Manuka est largement apprécié pour ses multiples propriétés hautement bénéfiques pour l’homme.
Don't choose the one who is beautiful to the world
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgkAtLaAukc
But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.....
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無論你愛與不愛
情若在愛亦在
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歳與月 穿梭過
晝與夜 奔跑過
愛與恨 交煎過
冷與熱 翻滾過
無論你愛與不愛
我都堅決愛....
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Eye-catching mānuka, or tea tree, standing out nicely in its white livery against the surrounding greenery of the hillside.
Leptospermum scoparium, commonly called mānuka, manuka myrtle, New Zealand teatree, broom tea-tree, or just tea tree, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, native to Australia and New Zealand.
Now that excavation has been completed on the building site at the rear of St Christopher's Cathedral (seen as a silhouette near the right-hand edge of the image), a large crane has been brought in and erected. From this perspective, the crane appeared to be acting as an umbrella to shield and protect the six lighting towers surrounding Manuka Oval. The Sun was just making its presence felt on what promised to be a lovely Spring day.
Forrest, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
iPhone 6s - Photographs taken with the back-facing camera on an iPhone 6s.
PureShot - Acquired 6 sets of bracketed portrait-orientation shots using this camera replacement app. The shots were taken in a single horizontal row with approximately 20% overlap on either side. The focus, white balance and exposure were held fixed across the 6 sets. Each set of bracketed images had 3 images with 5/3 Ev exposure bias on either side of the fixed exposure level. Each image had dimensions of 4032 x 3024 pixels.
Mobile HDR - Combined the 3 images that made up each of the 6 sets of bracketed images to produce 6 HDR images.
Autopano Giga - The 6 HDR images were stitched into a panoramic image with output dimensions of 12102 x 4086 pixels.
Photoshop Express - Cropped the image to 10117 x 3533 pixels. Applied overall Clarity, Sharpen, Exposure, and Vibrance lighting adjustments.
Photoshop Fix - Applied selective Lighten, Darken, and De-saturate adjustments using the brush tool. Saved the image with the maximum dimensions available in this app (9378 x 3275 pixels).
Big Photo - Re-sized the image back to 10117 x 3533 pixels.
ExifEditor - Transferred the EXIF data from one of the original photographs to the final image.
"And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career; a walking engine of glittering metal, ..." Book I, Ch. 10: In the Storm
"The War of the Worlds" (1898) - H. G. Wells - Herbert George Wells (September 21 1866 – August 13 1946)
The silhouettes of the lighting towers around Manuka Oval never fail to remind me of the Martian war machines from H. G. Wells "War of the Worlds". At this time of the day, all is silent and peaceful - suggesting the scene at the end of the war, when the machines were silent, the Martians falling victim to bacterial infections.
Also featuring in this panorama are the crescent Moon, Venus, and the silhouette outline of St Christopher's Cathedral.
This is a panorama produced from 5 photographs taken with an iPad Mini 2. My "other camera" (iPhone) was out of action, leaving me with just my iPad Mini to take photographs with. This turned out much better than I imagined!
en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._G._Wells#The_War_of_the_Worlds...
"In another moment I had scrambled up the earthen rampart and stood upon its crest, and the interior of the redoubt was below me. A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, ... a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, ..." Book II, Ch. 8 (Ch. 25 in editions without Book divisions): Dead London
Forrest, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
iPad Mini With Retina (iPad Mini 2) - Photographs taken with the back-facing camera on an iPad Mini 2.
Camera - The native Apple camera app was used to take 5 portrait orientation photographs with approximately 20% overlap with the frames adjoining on each side. Exposure, focus and white balance were locked so that the lighting would be consistent across the set of images.
AutoStitch - Stitched the 5 images along a single horizontal row into an image with 6408 x 2808 pixels.
Photoshop Express - Cropped the panorama image to trim off the undefined portions around the margins (6408 x 2808 pixels).
FrontView - Applied a trapezoidal crop to adjust the apparent perspective.
Snapseed - Used the Selective lighting tool to darken the sky along the top of the image.
Photoshop Express - Applied the Sharpen filter.
ExifEditor - Transferred the EXIF data from one of the original photographs to the final image.