Jack and Katrina's Place

The glorious weather continues in Wellington but the mornings are distinctly autumnal now.  Running into work past the bus stop café in Molesworth street and delighting in crunching through swirled drifts of yellow elm leaves. Cresting the hill at Wadestown and the Virginia creeper on the retaining wall glows red and apple green, backlit by the sharp low sun. These are the brief and timeless glories of autumn, soon the cold rain will wash them down the gutters and out to sea.

Meanwhile our two boys have been growing like sunflowers to the light. Guy has grown from Katrina's shoulder height in spring to her chin height by autumn. Here they are in November when we to the Paekakariki campground to try out our new family sized camping, tent
Will is doing all he can to catch up with his big bother and this summer he quickly mastered his balance bike. Here they are riding and running on the tracks up the hill behind our house.


In this photo he's sitting on the other side of the mountain ranges, in the post 'Beside Rivers and Lakes' post,,,, 60kms east and two years later.