Autumn Drop

A very long day today - my sister and I left Balclutha to travel back to Christchurch.
We called at the hospital to say 'bye bye' to our mother. She had not had a good night, so we stayed with her longer until she was more comfortable. Hopefully I will be going back down there in 3 days time to see her again.
Good for traveling very grey and dull. Stopped off at Timaru and caught up with Dups. So good to see her.
I still had not done my photo for the day, so we just stopped at the Ashburton Domain, and this brilliant flame colored tree was shouting to be photographed. It was such a brilliant color and of course looked even better as it was wet. I think it may have been a flowering cherry, but was much more colorful than most. The leaves are just starting to drop.
Then off to Charing Cross, dropped my sister off, and then to home.
Un pack and hope to have an early night.