Today finds me completely uninspired, so here is the view from my house. From past experience, when the clouds look like this and start to bank up against Mount Taranaki from both sides, we know we're in the shit.
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@taffy Not every day - usually it's covered in those clouds at this time of year, but we get the little "foothills" every day...if you can't see the mountain it's raining, and if you can see it then it's going too. @bigugly I've taken to walking around with my eyes closed... @888rachel It's truly stomach churning isn't it... @maggiemae A lot of people have been up there thinking that he's an easy climb but no, definitely not. Our local rescue helicopter is up there most weekends bringing one or two idiots back down. @nanderson It's awful isn't it? @lsanderson55 Really, I thought everyone had one of these in their garden ;) @homeschoolmom Thank you very much, but it's an awful thing to be looking at every day ;)
My son played a hockey tournament in Stratford and had the other side to the mountain to look at from the turf - the only thing he liked about Stratford I'm afraid!!!
@alinz I grew up in Stratford, lived there until I was 14 and had the deep and lasting pleasure of almost daily beatings from Mark "Bull" Allen. My father was in the police there until we moved to New Plymouth...then I buggered off to see the world and lived in the UK for 7 years...I hate Stratford as well. @beschnett You have an alley??? Now I'm jealous (seriously)
@nicoleterheide It's always a good fall back ;) @kerosene Thanks very much - so very cold though... @tonygig Some days we see it, other days it's just a cloud bank... @blueberry1222 That it is :) @karlow75 The damned camera keeps trying to get that colour function up and running ;) @adayinmallacoota We're pretty lucky when it comes out to play from behind the clouds
@rustymonkey We're pretty lucky...and damned cold ;) @panthora I'm always cranky ;) @janiskay Think of me getting it every day...horrific @epcello Awful isn't it? @julzmaioro You spotted my dinner in the distance then?
I see you have the same weather forecast as we do: if you can't see the mountains it is raining, if you can it is going to rain. It will be a lovely view on cloudless days when all those traces of human habitation have gone!
@brigette Darkened marginally with a filter, but only a tiny, tiny touch...and it came to nothing anyway! @yrhenwr That's what irritates me the most...trying to find a good shot of this hillock with no traces of humanity in the way. One day...
@bigugly I've taken to walking around with my eyes closed...
@888rachel It's truly stomach churning isn't it...
@maggiemae A lot of people have been up there thinking that he's an easy climb but no, definitely not. Our local rescue helicopter is up there most weekends bringing one or two idiots back down.
@nanderson It's awful isn't it?
@lsanderson55 Really, I thought everyone had one of these in their garden ;)
@homeschoolmom Thank you very much, but it's an awful thing to be looking at every day ;)
@beschnett You have an alley??? Now I'm jealous (seriously)
@kerosene Thanks very much - so very cold though...
@tonygig Some days we see it, other days it's just a cloud bank...
@blueberry1222 That it is :)
@karlow75 The damned camera keeps trying to get that colour function up and running ;)
@adayinmallacoota We're pretty lucky when it comes out to play from behind the clouds
@panthora I'm always cranky ;)
@janiskay Think of me getting it every day...horrific
@epcello Awful isn't it?
@julzmaioro You spotted my dinner in the distance then?
@bill_fe I think its a shit beyond comparison
@yrhenwr That's what irritates me the most...trying to find a good shot of this hillock with no traces of humanity in the way. One day...