World view

What does a candidate for council do when he's not kissing babies or nailing billboards to other-people's fences? 
Gaze wistfully out of his window, of course. 
Fortunately, the view I enjoy is a special one; a forest-garden foreground, in the near-distance, the sometimes-sparkling waters of the Jacob's River estuary and in the far distance, te mauka tapu Takitimu, snow-capped in the winter, tinged-blue in summer.