Frances Jill Studd: May 2016

Monday 16 May 2016

My granddaughter picked a bouquet of flowers for me when she went for a walk

with her grandfather. I have used some of her collection in this Autumny painting

along with some colourful leaves which seem to have fallen later this year.

Also included are some honesty pods and a stick insect. We often see these

'hayseed' stick insects and came home the other day to find one on the front door.

Here is another spiney stick insect which I picked up off the footpath

this morning, it must have been blown out of a tree in the storm

we had last night. This one would have been 8 -9cms long in

it's body so quite a large one.

All images copyright Frances Jill Studd 2016

Sunday 1 May 2016

Here is a little film of the Huka Falls which we visited recently, it is the

most visited of the natural features in New Zealand. This was believable as

even at nine o'clock in the morning buses were drawing in and many

different languages could be heard amongst the viewers.

The Huka Falls is in Wairakei Village just North of Taupo and is where

the Waikato River which drains Lake Taupo narrows to 15 metres through

granite rock. 32 - 270 cubic metres of water per second pass through the

narrow gorge