BLOG about PAINTING

I never tire of the view from here. After several years living in a beautiful, but enclosed, space, we once again have the luxury of looking a long distance across fields and sky. With the squally New Zealand winter weather, we can sit here in the shelter of the house and watch as sheets of rain drift across the fields and forests.

I did my first foray as driver on the roads into the nearby town of Warkworth. (My sweetie had been doing all of the driving since our arrival.) It's pretty scary barrelling along at 80 - 100 kph on these narrow roads, but in some ways it's easier than sitting in the passenger seat (on the left side of the car) and watching the edge of the pavement only inches from one's body.

TODAY'S TIDBIT

I've already whinged about the roads - their narrowness,twistiness, outrageous speed limits, etc. - but I had failed to notice that almost everywhere, there are broken lines down the middle, meaning that you can pass even approaching blind curves!