Peace

I'm so sleepy.

But I love this.

I love how I wake up and the world is still recumbent. I love how the sun rises before me beyond my window.








And then erupts across the harbour.




I love how on a really sunny day, I come down from Kelburn on the walk to work and the city is an iridescent palette and Oriental Bay is awash with brilliant pure light.
















I feel giddy witnessing Winter finally fall to its knees beneath the weighty optimism of spring.









But I realised recently that this leg of my journey to work has become my favourite. With it's spray paint and mesh wire and broken windows and those stairs ascending out of sight beyond the path that was littered with leaves throughout the colder months. Perhaps I have become more of an urban creature than I had appreciated.