24 November 09 – Recently the mornings at Inglewood have been misty until 10 am. The vegetation on sides of the road has glowed with the dew.

21 November 09 – Dawn at the Taranaki Green Dollars 20th year celebration. Also known as LETS it is a local trade and
exchange system. I was part of the original group that established the Taranaki network.
The celebrations cake.

21 November 09  Arthur, Imile and Dean 3 wwoofer travelers.

16 November 09 – for sometime I have been watching 2 birds at the back of the Inglewood farm. They are Pied Stilts – Poaka.  
Himantopus Leucocephalus.

18 October and 8 November 09. Folk seem to still adopt the name Egmont locally – the name given to Mount Taranaki by Captain Cook in the 1770’s. Here are 2 recent images. The car number plate is 18 October in New Plymouth and I found the bottle with an Egmont label on, under the barberry hedge at Inglewood on 8 November.

8 November-09 – With this big digger I spent the weekend taking out the barberry hedge line ready to put new boundary fences up at Inglewood.

8 November 09 at 7.47 pm. A still image downloaded from the Taranaki vista web site – a beautiful Taranaki dusk.

7 November 09 at 6.08am. A still image downloaded from the Taranaki vista web site – a beautiful Taranaki dawn.

3 November 09. I took 12 opossums to sell for the fur at the Inglewood opossum factory. Here is the days collection on the factory floor. The light in the factory is an airy blue colour.

1 November 09 Cath and her father at Bell Block.

30 October 09 Chevette has established her first garden. She gave me this very beautiful bok choy. It tasted really good.

20 October 09 in Waitara outside the Chemist is this fire hydrant with this very nice fern growing in the glassed box. 

2nd October 09 This sign is an industrial area of New Plymouth where I go to a building supply store. I am yet to sample the pancake seconds.

27 September 09 Here is Cath posing with the Te Kuiti shearer.

23rd September 09 Cath invited me out to dinner – above the fireplace at the restaurant is a cattle skull – it reminded me of Georgia O'Keeffe.

When I was young we would take ‘Sunday drives’ and I really enjoyed the trip to Purangi and Tarata and we would stop and look at the fossils and old volcanic layers in the road cuttings.

22 September 09 I traveled to inland Taranaki and through to Whangamomona. Here is the welcome sign to Purangi and the Kiwi sign.

21 September 09
I trucked some cows and calves to the block of land called Okawa, on Waitara Road. This was the first time these cattle had been moved in a Truck.

3 young German-wwoofers stayed for a few days – Willy, Mark and Robert.

16 September 09 Robyn Hoeta. In December 1973 I took an image of Robyn Hoeta, Ian Read and their sister and brothers in New Plymouth. I had gone to school with them in Inglewood. Here is the image from 1973 and one of Robyn, when we met up again in Waitara on the 16th September 2009. Robyn married Ian – Ian has since died. Robyn has 7 grandchildren and now lives in Eltham.

14 th September. Lilies on the Inglewood farmhouse table in my mothers' old green jug.

5^th September -Chevettes’ Clothesline at the house next door.

4^th September at Inglewood – the saw blade on the farmhouse wall and stacking the wood for drying for next winter.

1^st September 09, it’s Spring – Koanga and the grass is getting greener again. To date I have 21 calves born – often the calves born are replicas of the cow mother.

31 August 09 – driving back from the Inglewood farm I often enjoy the visual images the Taranaki roadside provides. This Llama just suddenly appeared on the horizon.

21st August 09, National day of Telecom strike Action. Up to 900 Telecom lines engineers took nationwide strike action on Monday to protest Telecom’s attacks on their incomes and employment rights. In New Plymouth workers took to the streets and were joined by their fellow workers from the Wanganui region.

The afternoon of 22^nd August 09 - Just outside the Ohura township there is a fence line where hunters hang the skins and heads of pigs. There are about 30 hides hanging –  some fallen into the grass. As I left Ohura and I saw the fence line – I was reminded of the sculptural work of Don Driver and his homage to colonial rural NZ - the fence line, the empty shops filled with domestic clutter, and the signage that indicates the abandonment of a town.

22nd August 09 -22nd August 09 - The Ohura township has approx. 600 residences and was very quiet when we visisted. There were no shops open - the town feels abandoned.

22^nd August 09. After the “Whitebaiters never lie” Book launch Cath and I drove to Ohura and then we drove back over the Waitaanga saddle. Here is an image I shot of Cath – holding her shot of the day.

On the Friday evening of 21^st August at Mokau I attended the launch of a long awaited documentary photography book – “Whitebaiters never lie”, by Murray Hedwig and Anita Peters. It is a wonderful book and at the Mokau Whitebaiters Inn there are some of the images on display. It is truly worth a look. We all stayed over at the ‘Palm’ backpackers and here is my image of Murray and Anita wearing their matching photographer’s suited attire. – ‘seeing is believing!’

20 August 09 – Sulvain & Joanna Berthelot - two Wwoofer travellers came to stay for a week. Sulvain takes photos. They cleaned & cut my flax bushes.

7 July 2009 – This is George Fuller – the ex curator of Pukekura Park and longtime conservationist. He is standing on the Bowl of Brooklands access road and near the very ancient Puriri tree. George instigated the battle to protect the access way and the trees in the near vicinity. I first met George during the late 1970’s during the time of the protest over the destruction of the Northern Taranaki Coastline. The New Plymouth District Council planned to discharge raw sewage into the sea.

6th July 09– Ian McDonald sent me this image attached in an e-mail titled – ‘The Cooks Tour at Tikorangi’ – We are in my kitchen, I am seated on the left , John Miller in the middle and Haruhiko Sameshima on the right.
John's recent show at the Govett Brewster and Haru's book  'Bold Centuries' are both - standouts.

5^th July 09 at the Govett Brewster opening of Photo hiStories and Jin Jiangbo residency exhibition. Two wonderful photographic exhibitions. from left Mercedes Vicente- G.B curator,  Jin Jiangbo, Bruce Connew, Mark Adams, John Miller and Rhana Devenport G.B. Director.

I also shoot rabbits and this was the days tally at Inglewood - 12 January 2009.

Carmen and Peri at the AGENDER Conference, Queens Birthday, weekend 30th May 2009, Wellington.
I attended the conference, renewed old friendships, took photos and made a visual presentation on Amy Maud Bock.

Jenny and Kayla at AGENDER 09 at the Saturday Night party.

An image I have hand coloured of Amy Maud Bock as Percy Carol Leonard Redwood
This is from the time of Percy's marriage to Agnes Ottaway, April 1909. The Bock Centennial took place at Nuggets Point in April this year. Lynne Johnson (Amy's great niece ) and I were part of that celebration. We held a 3 week exhibition in Balclutha at the Arts Centre.

Punaga Dawn - Maori, New Year 24th June Piripi 2009

This is Alice Arthur and I took this image when I visited her in 2008. Alice and family lived at Nuggets Point – the place of the marriage of Percy Redwood AKA Amy Bock to Agnes Ottaway. These are the Slippers Alice Arthur knitted me in return for copies of the portraits I took of her. I quite often trade very practical goods for my images.

I went to visit a friend on Tuesday who lives at the back of Paritutu in a street below the IWD Chemical plant site – which has been in the news again – when I left the house – I looked towards the IWD Site and saw this sign on the house.

28 June 09. I went to hear John B Turner talk at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery – on my home via Inglewood I saw this wrapped letterbox opposite my father’s cousin’s house at 123 Rata Street.