Not my home airport but I once spent the night at Gate ∞, the Imaginary Departures installation at Austin-Bergstrom.

Took the train into the city and went exploring today. Last time I was in St. Patrick's cathedral I was in too much awe to take pictures, so I made a point of it this time. #Melbourne is rapidly turning me into a city person. There's so much to see, so much culture, and it's all so alive.

We visited in November and took a picture of the sign.

I wasn't paying much attention and accidentally made the best potato soup of my entire life. Probably won't be able to replicate it so I'm showing it off on the internet. Forgive my sloppy green onions. I can do better, I just didn't.

This is a photo I took and edited of my favourite childhood cat. I was just a young teenager in my backyard, and it turned out so well that it I fell in love with the medium. It's part of the reason I do what I do. Of all the pictures to change, she changed this one. Seen here without AI.

I've lived in lots of places that brag about how weird their weather is, but after only 6 weeks I think Melbourne takes the cake. These temperatures look like a yoyo on speed. 41 and 19 should not be so close together!

Went out to the protest in Melbourne and got sunscreen all over my sign. A bit awkward to chant "Yankee go home" as a certified Yankee, but only one speaker was really violently anti-American, and there was a lot of push back from the crowd and organisers. Impressive turnout on such short notice.

We stopped by the park after an open house and encountered this well dressed statue. She is dedicated to the women who cared for the veterans of WW1. The scarf was clearly hand crocheted. Someone put a lot of love into it.

Franz Marc is my favourite! The colours are so intense in person. I saw some of his paintings in Munich and got a postcard of Cat Behind a Tree.

Did the touristy thing and carved some Pounamu. Really freaking proud of it.

Hot cup of coffee in Dunedin (and breakfast on the way) after our aurora all-nighter.

Photo courtesy of my mother

This picture does the rays a lot more justice. We could see them just with our eyes.

Kiwis get outside and look for auroras ASAP

Finally went to the cardboard cathedral today. I've wanted to see it since I was a teenager, but I wasn't expecting to get emotional the way I did. A beautiful symbol of hope at a time when I feel I am rebuilding my own life from the ground up.

The country of my birth may not want me, but someone else does. She said yes! Well worth the windy hike to the top of Mount Sunday. It's been a wild ride and I can't imagine weathering the storm with anyone else.

Good morning Ōtautahi. I think that's gotta be one of the top 5 sunrises of my whole life. #nz #sunrise

There is nothing more breathtaking than the stupidity of one's own past self.

Throwback to that time I tried (and failed) to set up automatic ISO.

Editing more photos and missing Lake Taupo today. The morning fog was so magical. I swear I saw Avalon once - an island shrouded in mist rising from the center of the lake before the sun rose. No pictures of that of course. #photography #nz

Quite happy with how this shot from Taranaki turned out. #photography #trees

Finally editing photos from from ages ago. I'm a little rusty in lightroom. This is from the big road trip in spring of 2024. How different my life was then! I think I nearly flipped the car pulling over to get these in middle-of-nowhere Arizona. #photography #Arizona

I see we're all awake now! Part of me desperately wants to go down to the dunes to see the waves but I KNOW BETTER and that paragraph of the emergency alert was definitely aimed at me 😅 Here's the latest chart from geonet. #nz #tsunami

Nearly froze my fingers off to see the sunrise this morning and it was worth it. Christchurch is growing on me.

Stopped to see the sea lions on the way to Christchurch. These two looked as tired as I felt by the end of the drive.

No pyrotechnics in Nelson. Just rain, rain, and some more rain for good measure.