Summer pohutukawas

[vilakins]

This summer the pohutukawa trees (known as the NZ Christmas tree) are especially beautiful. When we drive around the city, we keep spotting more and more gorgeous examples (it's almost supplanted the Cabin Pressure yellow car game*), and the footpaths and gutters have bright drifts of crimson needles.

Here are trees either side of our drive.







So this summer is going to be a long and very hot one according to tradition.

* For those who don't now the wonderful Cabin Pressure, Yellow Car has no rules or scoring apart from noticing, well, yellow cars. We've also added the cyclist subset of MAMILs (middle-aged men in lycra) and the rarer MAFILS. I've seen two MAFILs in yellow lycra and that's worthy of scoring, so 2000 points to me.

Comments

[pebblerocker]

Gorgeous trees! It already feels like a burning-hot summer.

[vilakins]

What's especially nice is that they're all blooming at different times so we've been admiring them for weeks.

[katriona-s.livejournal.com]

Beautiful trees! Thanks for posting the pic.
I wish you a very happy New Year!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You too! Just half an hour to go till 2015 here. :-)

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Lovely trees and Happy New Year!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And to you!

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, those are very beautiful trees. Happy New Year to you! ♥

[quabazaa.livejournal.com]

Love pohutukawa trees! Gorgeous photos :) NZ looks so damn green after spending a few years in Aus. All the best for 2015!! ♥

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I always admire the tree in your icon!

The green grass usually goes yellow by February, up here anyway.

And to you! I hope everything goes much better for you in 2015.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Oh gorgeous, gorgeous!
You know that I have always admired pohutukawa...and i have always considered this word a magical word!!!! Like abracadabra: pohutukawa!!!
Thank you, they are glorious!!!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They are! I love them and cabbage trees (the spiky one in the first two photos) so much. And this summer they really are extra beautiful; I've never seen so many blooming at once.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Lovely trees. :) The ones in my neighbourhood look extra red at the moment too.

Will have to remember Yellow Car.

Happy New Year. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The new weather guy showed a whole street of blooming trees last night. The ones around us are all staggered though so as one loses its needles, another come into bloom.

And to you! Five Armies and Casablanca later next week? :-)

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Am looking forward to seeing Five Armies. :) However, next week is a bit busy, sorry, so how about Sunday 11th Jan?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Sunday would be fine. They haven't posted times yet but ordinary cinema or the Lux?

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Ordinary cinema is fine with me. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

OK, I'll look for 3D HD on Thursday. :-)

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)