Bethany

Two kids in a tree, legs dangling, as a horse jumps obstacles in a field beyond them

Levin AP&I show. ❤️🍦🐑🍔❤️

Packaging that reads "HIFI technology paranoia Just make a difference player Original and genuine"

For the price point on this mp3 player, this is exactly what I expected, but I'm still exceedingly delighted and confused.

Green coffee caravan, customers around it, including a queen in rainbow sequined caftan with piles of red curls, and a punky looking woman in Mardi Gras purple green and yellow.

Popped out for a coffee before tonight's NOLA brass concert only to find the trumpet player and the emcee in front of me in line. Wellington's awesome.

Two smiling ladies in a calm green River, a steep cliff with greenery behind them

First freshwater swim of the summer, Gladstone Reserve on the Ōhau River.

Two small tree houses in a Manuka tree, a river in the background

Found my new dream home.

Silhouette of dog on the beach at daybreak, pier in the background

Customized twin peaks playing cards fanned out

A dramatic skyline over greenery, city, and bay -- sunny and blue on left half, gray and stormy on right half

A cool looking house with a for sale sign

Lovely Welly weekend. The last photo is of a house I've long admired that's actually up for sale. Ian Athfield original apparently -- I always just thought it was a funky NZ DIY special, and admired the man I could see painting in the top room, wistfully jealous of his view.

Cemetery road in the fog, a white marble woman, arm raised on the left, a sign on an old fashioned iron Street lamp pointing to the crematorium

Foggy morning in the Karori cemetery.

Mōrena.

Pre-dawn hot tub ftw.

Bonfire on the beach, people in background.

Mānawatia a Matariki and happy solstice.

Graffiti of a little green something sitting on an HVAC unit on the side of a wall, reading something that strips the skin off his bones

Graffiti pillar, bright solid blocks of color making a face, a star in their eye

Bronze statue of a man hand pulling noodles

Today had lots of graffiti and tattoo art, walking, float tanks and cold plunges, walking, soup dumplings, and more walking. A good and unexpected day.

Banjo, man, rainy Street

Banjo in the rain.

I got a room there my last Christmas in Cali, as part of my bucket list tour! Crazy expensive, but no regrets. 😍

New phone, who dis?

Small dog, big beach.

OH in Korean chicken spot. "Will you spot me $5 so I can get a matcha?" "You shouldn't have bought those markers."

These pups are living the life. Gardeners van in a little beachy community.

I did in fact rush to swim again this morning, before the thunderstorm started, but it was too early to document.

Maybe this social channel will just be all swimming, all the time. Staying in Eastbourne for a month, where there is a weird warm water gyre. Have been in the water multiple times every day so far.

Smiling white lady in glasses against a tropical green backdrop

46, leaning into a warm wind while the sun is still setting at 8:30, above a backyard jungle with a mouldering tennis court under the ferns and a giant black wolfhound at my feet, about to go reread the ratty copy of Death in Kashmir with my mom's handwriting on the spine. It's a vibe.

I am simply not feeling resilient today. Come back tomorrow.

There's a man in this restaurant making little come hither "psst psst" noises at the pigeon casually walking amongst the tables.

A tiny swimmer waving from a green gray bay, under low clouds

Rare photographic proof of me swimming on a lovely New Zealand summer morning. (Rachael had to go back for her goggles)