Tree

Today's weather has been weird.  

I decided this morning that I should take a drive up through the Mackenzie country - doing the round trip - up through Tekapo and down through Kurow.  A nice 4 hour drive.  Well, 6 hours when you allow for stopping to take photos.   

The weathermen had predicted that it would be nasty in the Mackenzie country today, but I headed off very early.  There was lots of low grey cloud about but when I got up to Pukaki the cloud lifted and driving towards Twizel it turned an amazing blue.  The light was beautiful.

I had breakfast in Twizel and by the time I hit the road again the blue had disappeared (and so had the mountains) and things were grey and ugly.  I'm glad I took advantage of that one window of colour.

I took a new way home, turning off at Duntroon and coming north through Waimate.   I really enjoyed the drive even though I missed seeing any of the predicted snow.  

But I'm guessing by the drop in temperature that it's seriously snowing up there now!

Anzac weekend 2015, when I headed down to Wanaka for the Great International Blip Meet, I blipped this tree on the way there and on the way back.  I thought I'd blip it again, in yet another mood.  At some future point I'll have to try for it in its summer colours.