Wednesday dawned, and with my Pilates class cancelled, I needed to make new plans for the morning. My first thought was to go and find some more bees. The weather, however, was not the best for walking along the water front, being rather windy. If you want to get an idea of the prevailing wind in that part of town, look at the featured image at the top of the post of a tree in Waitangi Park. Anyway, I did spot some bees, starting with these three small ones at Tākini (the convention and exhibition centre. The first one of the three below on the left, and also a side view on the left below, comes from Arakura Primary School, the middle one created by Tim Christie and reimagines the bee as one of the All Blacks (which, in case you don’t know, is the New Zealand national rugby team), and the third one comes from Tōtara Park School.
The bee on the right in the middle picture below is Pollinating Pōneke created by Lizzie Pannell, symbolises the ‘city’s energy, diversity and the way innovation pollinates the city. This can be found just outside Te Papa. The final bee I spotted today on Courtney Place was Just-Tin BeeBot created by Christian Pearce from Wētā Workshop, a robotic bee who can fetch honey.
I also noticed this silver tear drop shape, KIMI/You are Here, a large artwork by Korean New Zealand artist, Seung Yul Oh situated in Waitangi Park. It beautifully reflects the surrounding area and is quite striking.
I was still a bit early to meet my friend for lunch, so popped into the delightful GoodFor and picked up a little paper bag of dried figs, a jar of hazelnut butter and these vegetable chips which tasted as wonderful as they look – kumara, green beans, and am not sure what else.
After lunch and a good gossip, I headed home, stopping at the library to pick up books, picking up something for dinner and finally buying a new cover for my phone. Reading, preparing lunch for the next day and pottering about occupied me for the rest of the afternoon before the evening calls of the kākā could be heard. Dinner over, (a stir fry with beef, broccoli, silver beet and asparagus) it was time for the next episode of Slow Horses.
How was your Wednesday?
Thistles and Kiwis is a Wellington, New Zealand based blog written by Barbara, who likes cats, summer and good food. Thistles and Kiwis can be found on Facebook and Instagram @thistlesandkiwis
That sounds like a lovely way to pivot after your canceled yoga class. The bees are great!
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I’m enjoying spotting the bees. Pity the weather was not conducive to walking along the waterfront yesterday morning.
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More bees! How wonderful. How are your real bees doing down there?
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They are really fun to spot. Real bees – still spring here so the big bee season has yet to come but I did spot one yesterday. I believe NZ’s native bees are under threat from introduced species.
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It’s a problem worldwide. There’s a virus that has threatened many of ours, and of course there’s the toxic use of pesticides that are everywhere. We are lucky here in Vermont that we’re keeping it under control, but I strongly support our local beekeepers.
The bees feed us all! Still have quite a few in my garden because we haven’t had a frost yet. That first frost date is getting later every year.
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Bees are very precious I agree! There are some awful viruses out there that attack bees. We need to look after them.
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Nice! Love that you find few more 🙂
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Me too!
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Love the bees!
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They are a lot of fun.
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Sounds like a good day. We took a boat trip up the Guadiana with friends, and had a very nice meal with traditional music in a quinta overlooking the river xx
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Oh that sounds wonderful!
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Do you think that you will see all the bees before you are finished?
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There are a few more I know I should be able to get but some are in places I doubt we will get to.
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Wellington wind is certainly enthusiastic. I am not tapped into the “what’s on” that you are, i wasn’t even aware of the bees.
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https://beeinthecity.org.nz/
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I worked in a charity shop in the morning then drove two hours to visit my husband in hospital and the same home again. Then spent a delightful three hours catching up with my scattered children by phone to bring them up to speed. The weather was excellent though and I saw hers of impala, zebra and blesbuck along my journey – so cannot complain 🙂
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Sounds like a busy day but how wonderful to see all that wildlife on your journey. How amazing to think of that (all we would see is dead possums).
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The bees continue to delight! My Wednesday comprised a walk including coffee stop with John in the morning, tea with a friend in the afternoon followed by a Zoom with two far flung friends followed by dinner with John and another friend. Put like that it seems hectic but it didn’’t feel that way.
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The bees are so much fun. Sounds like you had a very good day.
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That art work totally reminds me of an artificial hip joint!
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I’ve never seen one of those…but it is supposed to resemble the pear drop shape you see on digitial maps.
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I love that you are soaking in all the good things – the hazelnut butter and figs combo sounds amazing!
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This sounds like a lovely day. I’m still catching up after being busy with a wedding, engagement and a long road trip to Victoria and back last week. I’m hoping to get back to regular posting soon too.
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Sounds like you have been having a fun time!
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We have, but my blogging routine and post reading has suffered. I’m hoping to catch up in the next day or two before we set off on the next adventure.
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