Happy New Year wishes to everyone!
In December I moved house from Cambridge to Whanganui. Everything was shifted by Christmas, and most of the unpacking has now been done.
However, the shed I will use for tumble polishing is still in the process of preparation.
Early in January, after the moving and unpacking, I quickly put together a calendar for 2020, using Diamond Photo online. For each month, the Calendar has a set of photos, just slightly smaller than an A4 page, with another A4 size page below it containing the month’s dates. The main internationally-recognised holidays are noted, along with some of the main New Zealand ones.
I was very pleased with the quality of the finished product.
If you want to buy one for yourself, email me at john.tumblestone@gmail.com. It will cost you $25 (postage included, in New Zealand).
The following are the sets of photos for each month in the Calendar – these are all photos I took in 2019, most but not all of which appeared on TumbleStone blog last year:
January – Riverton scenes
February – Close-ups of Gemstone Beach stones
March – Fossil worm casts in rocks at Tihaka Beach, near Riverton
April – Hydrogrossular garnets
May – Gemstone Beach scenes
June – Fossil worm cast stones
July – Larger stones found on Gemstone Beach and the beach near McCracken’s Rest
August – Polished stones from Gemstone Beach
September – Henderson Bay scenes, Riverton
October – Polished stones, collected by my sister Helen on Gemstone Beach
November – Close-ups of fossil worm cast traces
December – Polished stones, collected by Sam, my sister’s grandson, on Gemstone Beach.
What a lovely spot! Looks like a haven. The horses too look very settled and happy.
We really like it. Unfortunately the nearby beach has few stones, but some of them have fossils in them, especially shells. My next trip to the South Island is already planned, late in February