From the Nelson Public Art & Sculpture Walks (March 2006) map: "Renovations to the original airport building added local art, including stainless steel panels with rock inserts by Darryl Frost. The panels, simulating riverbeds and featuring eddy spirals at the ends, required 52% to be holes for accurate wind distribution. The rocks in the piece were collected from around the region." This theme is repeated in the front entrance of the terminal building.
Sky over the Nelson Mail building, Wednesday 18 July. 
Post Office, Kiwi Bank, City Council Office... This clock tower is one of our landmark in CBD.
This is the view from the top of the Christ Church Cathedral Step. You can see the clock tower of our City Council/Post Office building and sea at beyond. (B&W version)
Opposite of this fantastic sculpture, this lollipop sign of BK is elected recently. I with BK will rethink this to be more like some sort of art than such an agree commercial sign post.
The warning label is starting to pealing off. It says, "Before digging, consult Nelson Electricity Ltd," and has their phone number. I think it should be a little more permanent and hopefully noticeable or artistic!?
Nelson City Council recently changed how signal works on the major intersection ahead. That is what this sign is talking about.
It's narrow, rickety, and a little scary, but I love this bridge. This is on State Highway 1, so big trucks traveling from Christchurch to Blenheim, Picton, and on to the ferry to the North Island cross this bridge, too.
The art work, "Southern Cross" by Bruce Mitchell, 1992, (Golden Bay black marble) is now in the middle of the Trafalgar Street construction site. Infrastructure upgrade is being carried out throughout the CBD..JPG)
This is a two-way bridge because the trains go on the top, while cars go below. They are building a new bridge you see in the centre of the pic, so sometime in the future, we'll no longer be going though my favorite bridge. 
Or wood pigeon, just outside my office. This guy's wings were so noisy when he came over. See this Wiki entry for more detail about this bird and better photos.
This and Sunday's photo were taken at dusk.
Friday at lunch time; we still have some autumn left. This morning might be the coldest yet this winter, though.
This is a paddock outside the town of Collingwood in Golden Bay, shot in May. Back in 1859, someone in England thought this would make a good nation's capital. But if you look at the map, you can see it's surrounded by hills and it would have been a hard slog transporting building material by road; back then, the primary mode of transport would have been boats, I hope. Nowadays, it's a quiet little town with one gas station, one pub, a few motels, a camp ground, and very nice beach houses.
(If you click on the blurb above, you can read about it in more detail.)
Details of Thistle Scarf, pick up, by June McKenzie. And it's reversible. 
Our Area Exhibit opened last night at the McKee at the Suter. What did I think? Well, there's plenty over here. 
This was shot at Blythells Bay, Marlborough Sounds, not this past weekend but the one before. I just looked up to see the cloud and found the moon next to it.
As at the end of June. Our new mini mall construction has progressed a little; there is a concrete stairway in middle of nowhere. This is taken from the back with two consecutive shots merged into one view. Compared this to shots from March here and here; the Newmans wall was taken down in April, I believe.
There's a wee boat race taking place in ValeNZia (Valencia), Spain, you may have heard of. I'm sufficiently interested in it, but not enough to stay up all night watching it; Meg, not so. Although she's all for the Kiwi boys on the Black Boat, (and there are plenty of Kiwi boys on Alinghi as well), if the Black Boat wins, Louis Vitton and America's Cup races will most likely come back to Auckland, in 2011, which would take the shine off of that more widely-anticipated event, the Rugby World Cup. And yet, she hates to watch the boys loose (and even worse, the defected Kiwis win); these are complicated times for her. The Cup might be decided late tonight. 
