Refinery Art Space Front Door Knob

Duncan said it doesn't turn, so you just grab and push/pull it. As if that makes it any less interesting...

Man Cave

This is my mate Duncan Leask's workshop at the back of Refinery Art Space on Halifax Street. Refinery used to have a small gallery space in the front and quite big workshop spaces available for hire if you used recycled material; now it has huge gallery spaces, a bit of workshop spaces at the back, art workshops and even a garden is planned. Refinery being its name, I'm pretty confident it used to be a refinery of some sort, but I'm yet to find that one out.

Can you almost smell the oily man smell? I must admit, it was rather clean, tidy and well-organized, almost disappointingly so. Duncan said I could sit in his workshop and spend the day with a pen and a sketchbook picking up interesting shapes and forms and textures from his space; I'm looking forward to it, maybe in spring.

Lime Yellow

We had rain overnight. This one has taken earlier this month. It still looks like exactly this at outside of my window.

How Now

For tiny art lovers visiting the Red Art Gallery Morning Tea Room. And a wee bit about this saying here.

If you're dying for good coffee, but can't run off just this minute, Per of Stockholms has supplied the audio here; now if we could find a way to link the aroma, we'll be set.

Chubby

Am I the only one who sees the chubby derriere swimming away from the rain clouds on the right?

Fix Me

This cat has been keeping us awake for the last two weeks; all day all night, except for a couple of hours in the afternoon, she's on a prow. There's a skinny gray one that keeps her company, and possibly the giant black-and-white as well, but they remain relatively quiet.

This one likes to test her lungs in front of our garage door (which is right under our bedroom), right outside our kitchen, or on our picnic table as seen here, and no high tech ear plugs can quieten her. So every night we lay awake, imagining cartoon-style revenges we could inflict on her, while about all I can do is to throw a glass full of water in the general direction, which is effective for about three minutes.

I am not a cat person; I am a dog person.

Update: late last night, Ben found this one digging the bulbs out of my garden. However, it wasn't on the prow; does this mean the romantic season is over, or was it just too cold last night?

One Year to Beijing Olympics

I heard on the radio that the Beijing Olympics starts in exactly one year from today. Best of luck to the grand city of Beijing, and to all the athletes!!

Fountain

At Queen's Gardens.

Construction Boom in Nelson?

I was away only 10 days, but I admit, I hadn't been to either of the Zest Cafes much since the Red Gallery Morning Room opened. So imagine my surprise last week when I ran into Zest on Church Street for a quick coffee, glanced up, and discovered that quirky Fantasmaloria shop was gone! I knew the yarn and costume shops had moved out of the premise, but I didn't expect this.

With the population increase and parking problems, some architects are advocating for 4- and 5-story buildings in the central business district of Nelson, instead of the current-norm of 2-story ones. Elsewhere, you wouldn't be surprised to see a "pencil" building go up in a space like this, but I hope not in Nelson.

The red building to the left is Stingray.

Red in The Rain 2

This is the picture of whole flower I posted day before yesterday. Is anyone know the name?

Let's Put Some Walls Here

Nelson sits on a fault line, so it unnerves me a bit when I see what appears to me to be unconventional (not from-the-ground-up) construction. This one appears so arbitrary it's almost comical, but I'm sure the builders know what they're doing.

Red in The Rain

It was raining raining outside and I took this close up. Well, it was couple of days ago... Today, we have another blue sky.

Sometimes It's Too Easy

This one is untreated, except the inclusion of my name. And today, we start Year Two of Nelson Daily Photo. Thank you for your support and kind comments over the last year.

Action After Dark

Yesterday, 6:45PM... Someone called an ambulance. I hope it was nothing serious. I have a B&W version here.