Christmas memories at the Domain, Auckland New Zealand
I took this picture back in 2003, when this blog was a new thing, and we were in New Zealand. I was shooting film then. 84 rolls in 12 weeks seemed like a lot (it was at $20 per roll by the time I developed it over there). I didn't have access to a scanner until we came back, and this one has languished in the files.
I've always liked it, perhaps more than it merits. Maybe because I can remember how great it was to be out for the Auckland Christmas celebration after R broke his leg and we were choppered out of the backcountry. Or the girl laughing at her dad in the seat as the shutter snapped over and over. I'm biased on this one; maybe it is a good picture. I wanted to use it for the 37Days trading card piece, but I couldn't make the text work with the image. Oh well.
It's 75 degF and raining in Auckland today. That weather didn't seem exactly like Christmas in 2003, even for a Cali girl like me. Nor does it seem like the holidays around the palace this year. There is the construction, and then we are leaving for US Highway 89 stuff. We haven't put up a single holiday ornament nor strand of lights. Simply hasn't been any time. Not even a cookie has been baked. I'm going to eat tamales in Arizona this year and call it good.
