Central Otago is nice this time of year

Today's picture is Central Otago Landscape (1940) by Rita Angus, one of NZ's best known artists. With its many deciduous trees which turn orange-gold in April and May, matching the yellow-brown grassland, it is a lovely area to be in.

For a few years our Wellington office was a few doors up the street from Rita Angus's house at the corner of Sydney Street and Ascot Street, and our next door neighbour was the late composer Douglas Lilburn.