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Owen 🇳🇿 @owenlamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#bloomscrolling #flowers #nature #gardening #photography #landscape #horticulture #urbanjungle The kōwhai is a native tree of New Zealand and is an unofficial national flower. Native birds such as the tui, bellbird, kākā and New Zealand pigeon/kererū/kūkū/kūkupa all benefit from kōwhai.

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do you like Pomegranate? How about these? As big as a softball for sale in the Old Town of Lijiang, China The fruit on the left are grapes about the size of plums This place has really great soil

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A few pictures from the cruise on the Li River, starting from near Guilin yesterday They don't do the spectacular scenery justice

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Went and looked at some old pottery today. Quite a lot of it all thrown in pits. Some bloke Qin had the job done quite a while ago now. It's lasted reasonably well, considering @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social Can you identify?

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

First day in Beijing 30+°C Really noticed how quiet it is for a big city. The vast majority of cars are EVs & all of the scooters are too There's lots of hire bikes everywhere The traffic is really well behaved too Bikes & Scooters seem to have right of way

Rows of shared bikes & a few scooters on a street in Beijing

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sitting at Wellington Airport waiting for our flight to Auckland. This is the first step on our next adventure, a three week tour in China. Tomorrow we catch a flight to Beijing via Hong Kong. We land in Beijing late Thursday night local time.

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

NZ has its problems, but 1/had a hernia repair operation this morning, released same day 2/ Hernia was a side effect of an op in 2024 to cut out some cancer that chemo hadn't got Great medical people everywhere, brilliant facilities at 3 x hospitals Cost to me $0 NZ Health ❤️

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Had a lovely iftar meal with workmates. Most of the food was prepared by one guy's wife & all was delicious. My contribution was nougat made in Isfahan in Iran. I bought it from a nearby shop called Baghdad Supermarket. It was great to come together over food! Selamünaleyküm!

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Ian Riddler Photography @ianriddler.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Manuka Terrace Terraces to Foothills to Mountains, up and up and up. It's a pretty place to live. - #Twizel, #NewZealand. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul" #Sunset #Landscape #Photography #art #EastCoastKin #Summer #Travel #PureNZ

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

A bowl full of Nasty (Nashi) pears from our little tree There are still some more on the tree, this has been its best season ever. I love them and will have one for my lunch. My wife doesn't like them, hence the name of Nasty pears in our house.

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

39 years married today, and our love is just as strong today as it was then. It was a hot summer's day in small town NZ. 👩‍❤️‍👨💍

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Ian Riddler Photography @ianriddler.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Ohau Overlook Out at Ohau today, a rainy day that turned out really very pretty. - Lake Ohau, New Zealand - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #LakeOhau #Summer #Landscape #Photography #Mountains #Lakes #NewZealand #Travel #MustDo #EastCoastKin #Bucketlist

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

1 1/2 hours to 2026 here. We in timezone UTC+13 will take this New Year out for a trial run before the rest of the 🌏 get hold of it Please ignore any scratches or dents in it when it gets to you, I'm sure they will buff out. I hope 2026 is happy & successful for you all 🎇🥳

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays everyone! From my family to yours, wherever you are in the world, I hope you all have a great day. It may not be a perfect Summer's day here, but it is Christmas Day, let the feasting commence 😋

Our Christmas tree, against the window, behind is part of the garden. To the left a plaything for the cat, to the right a stereo speaker

A pink lily in our garden, leaves of the lily plant and gravel in the background

Orange Lilies from our garden, above the leaves of the plant, to the left an old railway sleeper used as part of the garden

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Sometimes being a bit patriotic feels good Pohutukawa in flower and the NZ flag flying from the top of the Beehive

Pohutukawa trees in flower, on the left and in the foreground. Over the trees is the Executive wing of the NZ Parliaent, called the Beehive, and flying from the top of it is the NZ flag, and beyond a clear blue sky

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

You can't beat Wellington on a good day, so the slogan went

Looking East over the Wellington inner city, to the port with the harbour and in the distance the eastern Hutt hills and Soames Island (Matiu) on the far right.

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

A piece of my wife's art, exhibited in a local gallery recently

A large vase-like art work, very dark textured clay like leatehr on the outside, opening at the top to show a light brown surface on the inside. Three buttons up the front

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Jos Buurmans | New Zealand @josbuurmans.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Mount Taranaki Reflection - Taranaki, New Zealand. #photography #landscape #nz #balancedsymmetry

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

First day of Daylight Savings today, summer is coming. Here is a magnolia bloom in our front garden, they are taking a bit of a battering from the wind and will be gone in a few days.

A light pink Magnolia blooming the foreground. In the background more blooms and other trees & bushes.

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My wife recently went to visit her mother, over 500km away. She takes good pictures, here are a couple she took along the way. Here are Mt Ruapehu & Mt Ngauruhoe, volcanoes of the Central Plateau.

Mt Ruapehu, highest point in the North Island, on a sunny day, in the foreground the scrubby bush of the Central Plateau. Ruapehu is an active volcano

The almost perfect cone of Mt Ngauruhoe, snow covered volcano.
To the right is part of Mt Tongariro. In the foreground the scrubby bush of the Central plateau.

Ngauruhoe won the Oscar for best supporting Volcano in a feature film, playing Mt Doom in The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The days are getting longer, even though it's still very much winter here. It was a beautiful cloudless day and this was the sunset over the Pauatahanui inlet

Sunset, reflected in calm waters, a dark beach in the foreground and a cloudless sky above

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Here is a little something to brighten your day or evening. People enjoying themselves dancing to some street musicians on the 10 Arches Bridge over the Tigris River, Diyarbakir, Türkiye

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I quite like this shot, for some reason it makes me think of Pink Floyd's Animals, can't imagine why Anyway, it's the central Medresse at Erzurum in Türkiye

The minarets of the central Medresse in Erzurum, in front of a cloudy sky with a sunlit edge of a cloud seeming to touch the left hand minaret

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

@realtaraharris.bsky.social Hey, you're awake! at 2:30am? Whacked out on the really good drugs I hope Did you get a popsicle in recovery? That's what they gave me last year after bowel surgery

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Hard to get a clear picture, from the other side of the world, of what is actually going on in LA at present; with so much disinformation being spouted, and the awareness that it's a Really big city. How does it seem to you? @jaredhead.bsky.social, @artfultakedown.bsky.social

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Sitting in Singapore airport waiting for our flight home to NZ Had a great holiday in Türkiye We toured the East, & also had time in İstanbul. Highlights were Mt Nemrut, Göbeklitepe, Ani & the Georgian valleys As we traveled we were near 4 of Türkiye's borders, Georgia, Armenia, Iran & Syria.

Standing stones at the archeological site of Göbeklitepe, the site is 12000 years old and was deliberately buried, which preserved it.

Carved stone heads on the western terrace of Mt Nemrut lit by thr late afternoon sun. The site originally had six statues seated on stone thrones but earthquakes and time have collapsed them

Church at the ancient Armenian capital of Ani
The high cylinder topped by a conical roof ( its a dome inside) are characteristic of Armenian churches of the period (about 900 CE

Looking down into one of the Georgian valleys, very dry country with steep narrow valleys. Lots of bare rock visible and the grass is brown already even though summer had not yet begun ( late May)

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We've been touring Eastern Türkiye. The latest spot we visited was Mt Nemrut. Quite a steep walk to get up there but WOW! This is the Eastern Terrace, that we came to first.

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

@paulblinkhorn.bsky.social Thought of you in the Diyarbakır museum Pottery from around the area of various prehistoric sites

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This morning we visited the Dolmabahci palace and this afternoon a visit to the Çelik Ali Paşa Mosque, lunch, and a walk over the Galata bridge

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

First full day in İstanbul this year The graffiti on the pillar on the left almost sums it up, just change "in" to "with", so it reads, "I fell in love with İstanbul "

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Arrived in İstanbul about 5 hours ago It's a very big city but the guy who picked us up from the airport was the driver on our trip last year! Hi Murat! Very tired from the travel 3 flights to get here, one 10 hours, the other 11 hours, the first was a mere hour. Resting now

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Isn't technology amazing This is coming to you from an Air NZ aircraft over the Java Sea at 38,000 ft and 917 kmph And I've just had breakfast and a coffee

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We are doing as the departures board at Auckland International Airport instructed and are relaxing before our flight to Singapore NZ 282

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

A little something for #blueskyartshow, Red poppies, the flower of military remembrance, growing in the #earth of Troy, site of the famous siege in ancient times.

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Here's a bit of a different pic for ANZAC Day My Great Uncles' WW1 medals in their display case, with an ANZAC poppy on the case. Resting on a Turkish Kilim

A lounge room
Wooden cabinet to the left, a bookshelf to the right
in the middle a grey gas powered heater (not running) and leaning against it is a display case containing two sets of WW1 medals, on the case is an ANZAC poppy. On the floor is a Turkish Kilim (a rug) then grey carpet

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This picture does have Uncle Mac in it. It was taken Aug 1917 outside the YMCA in London. Uncle is 3rd from the right at the back of the bus. He had come over as part of the 24th re-enforcements & was assigned to the Otago Infantry Battalion later.

A group of NZ WW1 Soldiers on and standing beside a horse drawn bus.
The bus driver has a top hat on and there is a lady standing with the soldiers on the ground. Many of the soldiers have a walking stick.
Notes on the back say it was taken outside the YMCA in London in Aug 1917

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

One of Uncle Mac's WW1 pics for the Aussies on ANZAC Day. I think these guys are Australians by the slouch hats, but the pic is only focussed in the middle and I can't pick out any details. An officer and a Sergeant have flat officer style hats on.

A group of Austrailian(?) WW1 soldiers, a b/w picture, a Sergeant in the lower middle and an officer upper middle have officer style hats on , the rest have slouch hats worn in the Aussie style

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Here's Great Uncle Mac (Frank MacDonald) with a couple of his mates. Uncle is seated in the middle Uncle Mac served in WW1 on the Western Front, his brother Gordon was killed on the Somme with the NZ rifle brigade. Uncle was lucky and came home. I have their medals & photos & some other memorabilia

3 WW1 NZ soldiers, the seated one in the middle is Frank MacDonald

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Coming to the end of ANZAC Day in NZ, the day we remember our war dead. 25 April 1915 Aussie & NZ forces went ashore at Gallipoli in Türkiye. The campaign was a disaster with heavy loss of life on both sides. Here are some Pics from the memorials at Gallipoli taken last year

The Memorial to the New Zealanders on the hill top of Chunik Bair. This is made of stone and bears the names of the dead on either side. In the distance on the right the Turkish flag flies over a statue of Atatürk

A Turkish cemetery and memorial. In the foreground on the left visitors, on the right red rose bushes. Grave markers receed into the distance and in the disance is a tower , the main memorial. On the left flies the Turkish flag

Lone Pine, the Australian memorial and cemetery. In the distance the main memorial. On the left a Lone Pine, and under it grave markers. There are more rows of grave markers behind where I took this picture

The Beach Cemetery, NZers and Aussies are buried here together. They died here on arrival or of wounds waiting to be evacuated to hospital ships . In the centre the main memorial, in the distance the steep country behind the beach at ANZAC cove. People are looking at the grave markers on the middle left

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Coming home in the evening the light was again good for photos. The picture of the jetty is almost sepia toned by the natural light. the pic in the middle is a long shot showing from the jetty round to the boats at anchor. Still obsessed with the shadows on the hills on the other side of the inlet

Jetty and boats, the sun is setting so the colour of the scene has faded to alomost sepia. Jetty on the left in the mid ground, boats on the right in the channels, muddy shore in the foreground

Wide shot of the bay, muddy foreshore stretching into the distance, calm waters reflecting the sky and distant hills, boats to the right, jetty to the left.

Boats at anchor in the inlet, a wide stretch of muddy foreshore in the foreground and in the distance the shadows on the rumpled hills

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Some pictures from this morning going to work. The low angle of the morning sun really lifts these pics

Boat sheds, a small jetty and some boats on a sunny morning

looking over an orange flowering bush and a boat shed roof to a boat at anchorin the still waters. A small jetty to the right. Hills in the distance
Calm waters of the Pauahatanui inlet

Boats at anchor in the morning sun, shadows on the hill in the distance show the shape of the land

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This is a Pohutukawa tree, the NZ Christmas tree because it flowers at Christmas (Summer) It is flowering The picture was taken today, mid April (Autumn) It must like it here in this carpark

A Pohutukawa tree in flower, it has red flowers. It is growing in a garden in a carpark, behind it the sky is blue with a few small clouds

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I got a letter recently, from my specialist. It was a summary of our meeting last Dec. It listed what I was treated for: Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma, & a summary to date. The best part was the status "Complete remission following resection..." I'm monitored for 2 years, I'm 6 months in & OK so far

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Wellington harbour from Petone foreshore today. Two pics because I liked one & my wife liked the other. Matiu/Soames Island in both Petone wharf & Wellington in the distance in the righthand one Eastbourne on the left of the lefthand pic, with the harbour entrance just left of Matiu/Soames Is.

Beach grass and sand in the foreground, waters of Wellington Harbour, in the distance Matiu/Soames Island, hills either side and the clear blue sky beyond

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It was a sunny Autumn weekend First up a rural scene, Saturday evening about 6 pm, looking over the Whitemans Valley from the Wallaceville Hill Rd, Upper Hutt, NZ. The valley floor is mostly peat swamp. The lines of bush are mainly native manuka. Dratted gorse on the right

Farmland and bush, in the distance hills and smoke rising. In the foreground on the right gorse flowering, on the left the top of a fence post. Whiteman's Valley Upper Hutt NZ

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Bill Montei @billmontei.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

#Peaceful Fiordland, New Zealand #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Today was a good day for a photo Pauahatanui inlet, a couple of boats at anchor in the late afternoon sun.

Two boats at anchor in the late afternoon sun. Foreground is the muddy foreshore, background is the hill lit by the sun from the left and showing the shape of the land in the shadows. Some houses to the right hand side. Pauahatanui inlet, Porirua, NZ

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rufusredbeard.bsky.social @rufusredbeard.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I took this picture on the way home from work today, I just love the way the low angle of the light shows each hump and hollow. It's like a crumpled blanket. This is straight off the phone, it almost has an oil painting effect about it. Anyway, Pauatahanui inlet, NZ

Low afternoon sun on the hills across the Pauahatanui inlet, showing up the humps and hollows of the land, the waters of the inlet and the beach in the foreground

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