Thompson Gypsy Adventure

From November 2009 to September 2010 Tyler and Paula will be on a grand adventure. We have lent our house to another family who need a place to live while they are building a new house, and we have hit the road. New Zealand, Australia, Texas (!), Ireland, Scotland, England, and Japan are planned.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Picton, New Zealand

Tuesday, December 15, 2009     Picton

The small port town of Picton is at the top of the South Island just across the straits from Wellington.  We got up at 5:30 this morning to catch the sunrise during our approach into Picton Harbor.  Tyler set up the camera on a tripod and took a sequence of stills, shooting one every three seconds.  Then, using QuickTime on the MacBook Pro laptop, he was able to convert the sequence into a time-lapse movie of the sunrise.  We're not sophisticated enough with the WWW to be able to figure out how to publish it so you, our fans, can see it, but we may be able to do so before we return home.







Our shore excursion visited wineries and gardens in what is called the Marlborough Region, one of the two principal wine producing areas of New Zealand.  Here is the Wither Hills winery.




This is the flower of the bottle brush tree, a prolific plant in this region.






Here is Our Favorite Botanist in an aMAZing country garden.




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Midland, Michigan, United States
Tyler is a retired research scientist (PhD Chemistry, University of Illinois) who worked for The Dow Chemical Company. The last 16 years of his career he served as grants and contracts manager for Dow's External Technology program, involving Dow sponsored research grants to universities, government research contracts into Dow, and a variety of other industry/university/government research partnerships. Paula is a botanist with graduate work in plant taxonomy. She worked as a microbiology research assistant for four years while Tyler was in graduate school, then led a busy life raising 3 kids, gardening, and serving in a variety of church ministries and activities.