Happy New Year, Almost!!

Tonight might be your big party night, or quiet stay-at-home night. Either way, have a good one. See you on the other side, tomorrow.

Great Suspense

Bridge Street Bridge construction continues. Ben grabbed my wee camera on a Friday night after I started laughing at the dangling thingie. It must be the weight-counterweight thing... I hope the workers didn't go home in the middle of the job.

NDP is having a wee break, so we'll see you back in mid-January. Do have a great start to the New Year.

Fiji Rugby Player?

This guy was wearing a Fiji Rugby Team jersey and his mate (not in the photo) claimed he is a genuine national player. It was on the Friday evening most people finished work before Christmas. I think his mate thought I am a tourist and not familiar with the Fijian team... The emblem on this jersey is a correct one, by the way.

Lost Among Artists

Quick snap with Meg's Panasonic. At the opening of the Re:fine exhibition at The Suter, I found one of the badges has handwritten "Lost". I thought it is funny.

Benched

Boxing Day sales start today. Good grief, I thought we were finished with shopping?!

Mini Bananas

No, flax flower. Here's Ben's.

Happy festive season to everybody celebrating.

Fashion Island

It will be very nice place when it completed.

Fashion Island - Opend

It just opened; I noticed on 20 Dec when I was walking in town. It's just before Christmas and people are busy shopping, so it's just about time.

The mall is really a "half open"; shops in the ground/first floor are there, but there is still some constructions going on. Meg's so out of touch she was laughing at how slow the builders were.

Friday Evenimng, Arts Market

Summer

Blue sky, teal sea, sand, and pohutukawa starting to bloom. School finished yesterday for kiddies; work finish for most grownups today.

It's seriously summer here. This was the view from the living room yesterday afternoon, while I was working inside on my last tasks for the market tonight.

And re. the earthquake last night, I thought Ben was fidgeting until he grunted, "Yikes."

Another Rain Shot

Another shot from Tuesday's rain. In this, I shot the mirror in Sue's gallery, in which was the view of outside through the front window. (Is that wordy or what!) Anyway, the gallery was dark even though all the lights were on, and outside was light even though it was raining cats and dogs. I tried to focus on the wee sign, and tried all kinds of settings on my camera, but the Simple Mode (which I never use, and chose by accident) worked the best.

A Bit of Moisture

Drought started early this year; by mid-November, parts of Nelson/Tasman regions were facing water restrictions. So it's nice to have a bit of moisture.

I was looking out Sue's gallery window yesterday afternoon because I was a wee bit worried about getting flooded. See the ripples on the lower right? The bridge is over Maitai River on Collingwood Street; right behind the parking spaces is the Maitai. But we were ok; by afternoon there were kayakers having a great time right in front of the gallery. That's downtown Nelson for you.

This one is for Emilia and her family in Finland. It's dry today, by the way.

Twilight Market

"The first market was held last Friday. Twilight Market is a Nelson Arts Marketing initiative, held every Friday night from 6 to 9PM until 15 February, at the top end of Trafalgar Street, or the bottom of Cathedral steps."

Can you tell Meg wanted to put a bit of advertising above? I've another shot here.

Irresistible