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View from our new house
Before I get to the view pictures, I had to post these cute, friendly pansies. When I took all the pictures for the last blog post, somehow I forgot to get a picture of these pansies, and they have given me a lot of pleasure since we moved into our new house two weeks ago.
Our house is on a very steep hill, but we are near the bottom of the hill, which means we can bike into town. But we're the fourth house up from the bottom, which makes us elevated enought to see over the neighboring houses. From our dining room, we can see up into the surrounding hills.
Below is a wide angle shot of our view to the northwest, the view from the dining room and deck.
The next two photos zoom in on the view to the northwest. Guess what, there are sheep on those hills.
Straight west of our house, on the other side of the valley, is a wall of trees. Perhaps they will show good colors in the fall. The photo below was taken from the deck, but this is basically the view from the kitchen window that we see when we wash dishes.
The deck wraps around the west side of the house, and the photo below looks south from the deck. This is the view Dave sees from his studio, which is on the southwest corner of our house.
No series of photos from the windows of our house would be complete without a view from my office. As I sit at my computer, I look west towards the wall of trees. But I can also look down the street to the gas station on the corner of our street and the main road that comes up the bottom of the valley. (For the curious, we have BP, Shell, and Mobil stations that use the very same logos on their signs as in the US. The one down the street is called Caltex, and it uses the Texaco star. Those are the four main kinds of gas stations that we can remember seeing here. Gas - called petrol here - is NZ$1.70 per liter which equals US$4.89 per gallon, and of course it is steadily rising all the time. It takes NZ$70 , which is US$53, to fill up our Honda Civic gas tank.)
To get to the university, we go down the hill to the gas station, turn left on the main street there, and go about a mile south past the Botanic Gardens. It's very slightly downhill, just the amount you notice on a bike but not in a car. Downtown Dunedin begins about a half mile beyond the university, still flat. We wanted to live in this neighborhood so we could ride bikes around town, and we have biked somewhere almost every day for the past two weeks. It's wonderful.
Our house is on a very steep hill, but we are near the bottom of the hill, which means we can bike into town. But we're the fourth house up from the bottom, which makes us elevated enought to see over the neighboring houses. From our dining room, we can see up into the surrounding hills.
Below is a wide angle shot of our view to the northwest, the view from the dining room and deck.
The next two photos zoom in on the view to the northwest. Guess what, there are sheep on those hills.
Straight west of our house, on the other side of the valley, is a wall of trees. Perhaps they will show good colors in the fall. The photo below was taken from the deck, but this is basically the view from the kitchen window that we see when we wash dishes.
The deck wraps around the west side of the house, and the photo below looks south from the deck. This is the view Dave sees from his studio, which is on the southwest corner of our house.
No series of photos from the windows of our house would be complete without a view from my office. As I sit at my computer, I look west towards the wall of trees. But I can also look down the street to the gas station on the corner of our street and the main road that comes up the bottom of the valley. (For the curious, we have BP, Shell, and Mobil stations that use the very same logos on their signs as in the US. The one down the street is called Caltex, and it uses the Texaco star. Those are the four main kinds of gas stations that we can remember seeing here. Gas - called petrol here - is NZ$1.70 per liter which equals US$4.89 per gallon, and of course it is steadily rising all the time. It takes NZ$70 , which is US$53, to fill up our Honda Civic gas tank.)
To get to the university, we go down the hill to the gas station, turn left on the main street there, and go about a mile south past the Botanic Gardens. It's very slightly downhill, just the amount you notice on a bike but not in a car. Downtown Dunedin begins about a half mile beyond the university, still flat. We wanted to live in this neighborhood so we could ride bikes around town, and we have biked somewhere almost every day for the past two weeks. It's wonderful.
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