growing wild

Wall to wall

richie rich — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:19:21 +0000

Where there’s water there’s life: these streams are flowing off Karetai Peak at the head of the Donne River, Darran Mountains, Fiordland.

Clearing southerly

richie rich — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:21:30 +0000

I’m making a case right here for Fiordland having the best cloud scenery in New Zealand.

Sabre Peak

richie rich — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:26:43 +0000

The tussock slopes and rock terraces around Lake Adelaide, I thought, looked kindly compared to . . .

Korako Glacier

richie rich — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:02:48 +0000

. . . the seracs and dark precipices closer by, where the Korako Glacier was crumbling into a noxiously blue-green lake.

Diorite

richie rich — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:07:39 +0000

The Donne Valley: from a drum-scanned slide, increased to 600% original size

Old man

richie rich — Thu, 13 May 2010 05:19:09 +0000

Old man Te Wera: seen on the old mens’ Central Darrans tour of 2010

A windy day

richie rich — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:35:03 +0000

A windy day

Main trunk line, Rangataua

richie rich — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:54:53 +0000

Main trunk line, Rangataua

Pinus radiata

richie rich — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:25:40 +0000

Pinus radiata

“Of the plants imported, two in particular were showing significant promise – Cupressus macrocarpa and Pinus radiata. The results confirmed the experience obtained from the first recorded importation of Pinus radiata in particular, which occurred in 1859 and which was performing well in many locations around the colony. Eventually some 25.5 kg of Pinus radiata seed (not cones) was forwarded from California, much of which was germinated in the Wellington Botanic Garden and distributed throughout the country.”

– Friends of the Wellington Botanic Garden

Atmospheric research

richie rich — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:43:21 +0000

Rainbow in Owhiro Bay

“When one studies the refraction of sunlight on a raindrop one finds that there are many rays emerging at angles smaller than the rainbow ray, but essentially no light from single internal reflections at angles greater than this ray. Thus there is a lot of light within the bow, and very little beyond it.”

– http://eo.ucar.edu/rainbows/