A Journal Page from Nelson

A Journal Page from Nelson

 

 

This is a page which I have made from a visit to the Abel Tasman National Park in Nelson.  Starting at Marahau we walked along one of the tracks.  By the estuary were hundreds of small holes made by mud crabs and in the taupata and sedge alongside we could see nursery spiders webs. 

 

 

 

 

The rocks on the beach were a mass of tiny mussels and fishing in the shallows were  black billed gulls and pied shags (silhouette on the right). 

 

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A Page from my Journal

A Page from my Journal

Waewae-kaka

This is a page from my journal made while I work on The Book of Flowers.  A common fern

waewae-kaka or tangle fern can often be seen beneath your feet as you walk through the bush. 

The orange berries of the native New Zealand iris mikoikoi are on the left, the silhouette of a native moth and the pale fern looper at the bottom and fallen pohutukawa leaves from

Raumati Beach lie in between.

By the tangle fern is the silhouette of a heitiki - an ancestor figure and the goddess of childbirth.

 

 

 

 

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all photographs copyright to Frances Jill Studd 2014