Lockdown

Day three and it is raining heavily outside so it is a true lock-in!!
Hard to get motivated even craft project is not interesting maybe I will have to look to my pencils.

This has been moved to my outside studio and awaits me and motivation. Let's hope motivation returns tomorrow

Loss

View from the Rail Trail should be at the end

This week has been one of loss for me, I guess as we move through life this happens more times than we would wish,
After a lovely holiday with Steve Millie and Carmen in Collingwood Golden Bay, we bade them farewell as they headed south for Christchurch and the long journey back to England. Steve and I are emotionally attached if one can be to one's child we always hate to say farewell.
Daughter Meredith came up for a few days she is loving her job in Dunedin but partner Andy is restless. I fear that she will never settle and my heart aches for her  - a mother's anxiety for one's

 daughter.

Meredith and Carmen in a contemplative pose

Here we are at Te Puia Springs a beautiful clear spring in Golden Bay

Apart from family, there were other issues to deal with my friend Fran's old dog Mollie had to be put down as one would expect she has been devastated but is starting to get through it. I don't think I have a photo of her, unfortunately.

Bad news again last week our friend Warwick Wright died of cancer after only being diagnosed 3 weeks ago all very sad.
Today when I was walking Maxie along the rail trail I was struck by the vastness of my world and the beauty  of it which helps one cope with these sad and emotional vents in one's life