Snow In Summer

Mount Torlesse with a recently harvested grain crop

Back Peak and Otarama

The moon over Porter's Skifield

The moon at 6.35 am

Lake Lyndon

Lake Lyndon looking to the head of the lake

 All these shots were taken from The Great Alpine Highway, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Lake Lyndon, the west arm

Porters Skifield from Porters Pass

The old roadman's hut on the way up to Porters Pass

Moon setting behind Porters Ski Field 7.16am

                                                              

  I was delighted to find a few flowers on my kowhai tree (Saphora).  The tree lost all its leaves during record low temperatures early June, and lower branches I can reach are obviously dead.  Other New Zealand native evergreens in my garden that have died as a result of that storm are purple akeake (Olearia), Pittosporum tenuifolium, and Coprosma repens.

Kowhai (today)