Today I noticed a new visitor to my garden... a fungi of some description that is happily growing on some decaying wood mulch that i spread round the garden last summer to preserve moisture.
The little cuplets are about 1cm in diameter....

I remember a quote from somewhere and stored it away for just such a day...
"One should never wear matching socks"
Came in handy today, as I woke to hear the news that a Royal Boy has come into the world, such nice news I thought i would sport my Union Jack socks I purchased in Edinburgh.
Could find only one, but thats OK as the other was an orphan too...
So stripes for inspiration today whilst i was photographing bottles...

This rather blurry photo captures a canoeist paddling past as I was taking photos of the full moon.  It is on a small lagoon near my home, it was formed in what was an ox bow of the Manawatu River.
It is home for ducks, geese -  white and black,terns, and lots of other bird life.

Today i was tidying up the garden, noting that the daffodils have started to shoot throught the soil, and I was kept company by some little friendly Silvereye birds.
The silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) – also known as the wax-eye, or sometimes white eye – is a small olive green forest bird with distinctive white rings around its eyes. They were self introduced in the 1800s and now have a wide distribution throughout New Zealand. 

Today was my eldest son's birthday, and I sent him a screen print I had pulled from a photograph taken when he was about 5 years old.

A friend who owns a small farm left a dozen eggs on my doorstep today...genuine free range....
I wanted to capture the slightly different browns, they would have been a good drawing exercise.... not today!