Succulents, Ma'am, just succulents

A visit to the botanical gardens in Wellington. Cable car up, cable car down. Tunnel of flashing lights, waves of colours in LED. Camera was hopeless to capture this sight.
Lots of big city views, but this post is mainly the succulents.
I love their resilience in both dry and wet. Dry is best but wet is better and they take off with great spirally things that look like a rocket launch when it rains.
There hasn't been much rain in Wellington in this hot summer, so they are at their best.

Mosses on trees are a sort of succulent simbyot...no?

Beautiful contrast on my way to the succulents.

Cactus of a sort. I have something similar at home, with a different upright form.

Oh, oh, a little shake, a bit of an earthquake, apparently near Christchurch. There is a website where you can check and monitor the earthquakes that happen all over this country, seemingly all the time.

These are the flowers of some of the succulents, so creative and impressionistic in their swoops.

A flower from outer space, apparently. Haha.

The colour of the leaves, a beautiful blue gray, coated with a soft fuzz that can be rubbed off if you touch them, like the bloom on grapes.
Remind me to show you the pictures of grapes later.

More of these beauties.

A tangle of pokiness. Not to lean against. Why is it I love so many things that bite?

Well, off to another adventure for the day. I am back in Wellington right now, for another week or so. Then off to Auckland. I like to get to know a city, in the way of finding the shops you need, cooking, taking the bus and enjoying the every day things. Maybe this is my trip to Florida to get away from winter.