Sunday Stills-Weather or Not

Sunday Stills-Weather or Not

I should have saved Transitions for this week when winter ends and spring begins but in keeping with the seasons lets find us some weather…..naughty or nice. Let’s show everyone what it’s doing in your neck of the woods.

Have you still got frost and dead weeds or blossoms…

..snow, wind, rain or blue skies?

Here in Auckland, we don't have snow. We get plenty of rain. We are heading towards Autumn. We have flowers all year round.




This is Albert Ng. He has lived through all sorts of weather. He was born in Cambodia, a tropical weather, went to Hong Kong and Macau, a sub tropical weather, endured the freezing Canadian winter, and then a temperate Australia and New Zealand weather.

Albert graduated with aBachelor degree in Applied Theology at Carey Baptist College.
Today, he was welcomed to Mt Albert Baptist Church as our Chinese pastor. Here he is, welcomed with his wife Lily and children as a family, by our lead pastor, Jonathan Dove.


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sunday stiill: a small part of a whole

Sunday Stills-A Small Part of a Whole
Posted in Uncategorized on March 4, 2012 by Linda

For this next challenge (March 11th) I want you to take two pictures…..one of “the big picture” and the second of just a part of it. If your into Macro photography you might want to take a photo of a whole flower and then one of the centre for example. Maybe a tree and a birds nest in the tree itself…….you get the picture ;)

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Sundaystills/photohunt: From the heart

Fellow Blogger and Facebook friend Cheryl loves hearts. I always try to look for hearts to photograph. It is not easy to find.


A Japanese jelly called Konnyaku. Their texture is not unlike gelatin but instead of animal products, Konnyaku comes from a type of mountain potato


A pair of very good friends, one gave the other a surprised birthday party, and gave her this present.

Anthurium are heart shaped, and these flowers are really from the heart. A young man man had drowned, and family and friends set up this memorial hidden in the bush. And I a bereaved mum happened to look and found it.

At our Main Course cookery class, one group's presentation of their chocolate brownie was this. Why we didn't think of it?



In Malaysia and Singapore, they bake this flat wafer biscuits and call it a Love letter.



I believe strongly in the beauty of the heart. Flash back 30 years, a group of university students went to help our friend Bill Starr put the beam on his new house.
Bill Starr helped the university navigator's club, cooking for the camps we had. We went to help him put the main beam on his house.

Just as well I was there to make it exactly 12 persons.I was wearing the Japanese dress the plastic surgeon gave to me.
In return, Bill had a spa pool, and we enjoyed using that especially in winter.



Ben is my kind of man with a big heart. Here he was, as a green peace member giving up a day at the beach to tell people to save the world.







I don't normally post photos of the time when I was involved with the Siamese twins and the Deaf in Kenya. Those friends had the biggest hearts.

In December 2000, I woke up and read the Straits Times that a pair of Siamese or conjoined twins have arrived in Singapore General Hospital to be separated. Ganga and Jamina were from Nepal and were joined together on their heads as though one was standing on top of the other.

The newspaper called for public donations. There was something in me that I couldn't explain. Besides shedding some tears for their parents Bushan and Mrs. Shrestha.

I decided to do something constructive. I have been raising funds for the Deaf in Kenya through Foodsale. I asked the Foodsale Committee if they would support me if I spearheaded the donation drive in NTU. Myfriends overwhelmingly agreed to help both in collection and give cash.

I did this drive first by emailing as many people I knew on the campus, put out flyers in the residential blocks. This attracted those who were not on my email lists. A friend's young daughter also helped when she saw the flyer. Some of the university students also donated.

Among my neighbours were some families from Nepal, and they were extremely grateful that I took up this to help their fellow country men. One of them is the husband of the sister of my friend. He was training as a doctor in the same hospital. He offered to be our contact person.

The drive was very intense with a flurry of emails and telephone calls. There was a sense of urgency because I was going back to New Zealand for a month long holidays. My friends told me to go and they will do the rest. We kept in contact by email, up dating me with the donation figures.

We raised quite a lump some. I was very happy even though I also got some brick bats from those who didn't want to donate. Some asked why I was raising funds for foreigners.

Manchala and I went to visit the babies twice. I am most privileged to see them while they were still conjoined. Not manypeople get to see conjoinned twins.We went again after they were successfully separated.

I brought a gift to the mum from my American Jackie friend. Mrs. Shrestha was in tears and hugged me. She asked through an interpreter why I did this. I answered in tears, I said, "My son didn't have a chance, I wanted to give her girls one."






Sunday Stills-From the Heart
Posted on February 5, 2012 by Linda

I was walking through Wally World the other day and noticed all the Valehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifntines stuff they had out on http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifdisplay…….everything from flowers to marshmallow (my favourite) hearts. So in honour of Valentines Day lets get creative and take some pictures from the heart. It can be anything from candy and flowers to a home cooked meal or a child out having fun.

I always liked these little cinnamon hearts that come out around this time of year……I remember them being more heart shaped though

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Sunday Stills-Birds (January 26th)

This gives a good introduction to the birds in New Zealand.







I am showing the Godwits again, because this was such a rare occasion that you see these birds from Siberia in flight.

I have to show the Godwits, in case you see them, and they tell you about meeting me in New Zealand. The Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large wader in the family Scolopacidae, which breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra mainly in the Old World, and winters on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of the Old World.[2] It makes the longest known non-stop flight of any bird and also the longest journey without pausing to feed by any animal, 11,680 kilometres (7,258 mi) along a route from Alaska to New Zealand.[3]





The gannets are migratory birds from Australia.







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