Happy, Merry and Bless

This year, our trees have grown tall enough we can sit in the living room and admire one of them. Ben says it blocks our view and wants it trimmed; I love the feel of sitting inside a tree.  

Pohutukawa

Another beautiful day in Nelson.

Our Pohutukawa tree is getting ready for Christmas day.  It must be a full of red flowers around Christmas day, this year.

P.Y.O Berry Picking

Boysenberry is great! 

Street Art

The opposite site of this one.

I coud give up shopping, but I'm not a quitter!

A windows advert on one of the shop in CBD.

Street Art

Play Me (2)

Another piano on the street!

Blue & White

Well close to purple?

Sunshine for agapanthus at road side. 

Reflection

Renovated extension on Rutherford hotel.

It could be interesting to photograph in a day with blue sky and cloud.

Christmas Tree

Cathedral step in Nelson

Big box of...

Christmas shopping season came in to Nelson CBD.

Riverside Pool

The Riverside Pool, Maitai Riverside,  Nelson

Maitai River

White bating,  It's that season already. 

Bead Gallery

Sadly... another one is going to go!?

Play me...

Play me... pop up community piano. 

 

 Private concert...

Centre stage.

Sunset on Guy Fawkes Night

New Restaurant

Corner of Hardy and Collingwood street. 

NCC Carpark

This is where the HUB used to be...


BTW. it was another beautiful day!

Fresh Green

Symbolic for early summer in central town...

Look up!

Building site of new high-raised (in Nelson Standard) apartment.

Mural "Modern Terrain"

Another one from Chris Finlayson.  Nelson has two more his mural and one is very famous  "AO TEA ROA".

NMIT B Blcok

Fresh coat of paint.  Looks very good for many years to come.
Since 1904...

Golden Eagle

Newly refinished historical NMIT building .   It's really getting good looking now.

Snowcapped

It's getting back to chilly days...

Daylight Savings

Our daylight savings started in weekend.  We still have snow cap on mountain range that I can see today but sky is blue.

Go Kiwi

It's a lower corner of the back of "Rebel Sports". 

Beautiful Day

It was a beautiful day (apart from a bit of wind) to look at such a vibrant art work in town. 

Youtube ...

Was on the street, few days ago before rain washes this out ...

Find us on...

Everyone has a page these days.   So do we!

Early Voteing

Don't forget to cast your vote on Saturday.  ... and ... YES, you can do it now for early voting.

Spring has Sprung

Little bit rainy yesterday...
Our cherry tree start having few pink flowers in past few days (may be weeks...).

Moved...

Little change in CBD.

There are some shop changing, relocation is going on...

This one is combined existed 2 shop space into one large place for better shopping experience.  I liked the larger space to look around.

Decay

2014 September Theme Day "Rust and Ruins - Theme Day for September."

Recycle Bin

iSTABNBUL in Nelson

No not the caps lock think, look at their sign.   Very nice restaurant they do nice take away as well.

Makeover

This is one of the historical building in town.  It's getting good make over right now. 

Bridge Street

New bicycle stand -  Bridge Street, nelson New Zealand. 

Blue Stripe

Good Morning

This is especially chilly morning and I found out a reason in this way...  Snow-cap on the range. 

Red Sky

Last evening.

The Port of Nelson

Vista of Nelson City Centre

Walkway and Horizon

A view from the centre of NZ.

Morning @ Marahau

Bicycle Parking Space

Much Anticipated Visitors

The first DPer we met was JB of Mainz/Not Nelson a while back. Today we met our second, Conrad of Bangor, Maine, and his friend from Malaysia, Chiu Ping, and spent a lovely wintery Nelson Saturday. I love shooting folks as they arrive, but I only got two, so I'm happy one worked out.

Fog

Same day as the last post by Meg.  It is in CBD.   We can not see the Cathedral.

Minimalist

We had very thick fog this morning and all flights were cancelled, but it cleared just to the edge of the runway and I heard the first plane today.