Oh, Men!!

He could be a descent sort, but I don't want any of you girls dating the guy on the left exclusively, ok? And if you're looking for sandwiches, they are now across the street on Hardy. Come to think of it, Jared was in New Zealand a little white back...

Daffodil Day

Yesterday was Daffodil Day, the biggest annual Cancer Society (of New Zealand ?) fundraiser. (Relay is a bigger event but we have that every other year.) On every block there were volunteers collecting money, selling fresh daffodils, tiny teddy bears.

Pretty big, eh!

Wood Pigeon

This bird is big and it was having lunch (Plum flowers) when I was passing through the Maitai river walkway.
Excuse me for CA's around Brunch.

Mitai River

In summer, kids just jumped in from the far side.

Signs

I particularly liked the "BARBER" sign. This cheese shop has really good stuff.

Theatre Royale Renovations Updated

Well, I had hoped to show you an update on Theatre Royale's renovations, (the front still looks the same), but I have to strategize for that. See the Google Map pic below. (If you search "Theatre Royale, Nelson, New Zealand" on Google Map, by the way, it shows a location several blocks south on Rutherford St.)

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The dark gray roof is the Theatre, then below it is an Army Office, (their web site says it's an "office"; no tanks, just trucks, with folk who walk admirably erect.) To its left is a car dealership that appears in my pic, and to its left is the Indian restaurant, which have long been fixed. I was across the street at the larger car dealership with the triangular tent.

So, either, I can go when builders are working (or having a tea break) and ask if I can take a shot of the renovations, OR, I might approach whatever business located in the huge silver building behind the theatre, eh. That's the plan.

Little Ones

I've just realised, it's that season already.

Man Cave

I was wondering what the means of this on Toyota dealer's show window. It turns out some sort of prise draw promotion. Lot's of good stuff! Go there and check out how you enter or maybe listen to the Rock FM(?). You cannot see from this angle but there is a beautiful electric gutter, huge BBQ, quad bike, GPS navigation and much more.
My PL filter wasn't handy at the time, so the reflections. It is the old fire station.

Tutu Purse

I'd love to get my 2-year-old niece this tutu purse, but I don't think she's tall enough to carry it around. Besides, her parents will say it's much too pink.

The building across the street, School of Fisheries, is only reflected on the shop window, but it's reminiscent of the double exposure pics I was into at one stage back in the film/manual advance days.

Sunset

Yet, another sunset from Nelson.
I was tempted by the light reflected on the edge of shallow water.

Nelson Hospital Building at Evening

I took this from Princess Drive lookout area with 300mm. I was there yesterday morning to hook up a hart rate monitor. I have to carry this 24 hours and take it back this morning around 9:15AM. There is a nothing wrong with me but just to record baseline. So, my doctor has something to compare if/when something was wrong. It's just for precaution due to my family history. To me, it's an interesting experience.

Danger! Danger!

Most of the books were only 25% off, but they had old art books. Yummy. But I came out unscathed.

Pay Your Fines Here

I had lunch with Ben in town Friday and he was laughing as we came out of the pub because he found the sign funny. Since we had no fines to pay, I thought, ok, he can laugh, but it's potentially serious stuff, you know.

Reusable Shopping Bag Logo

Last Wednesday I went on a supermarket tour; the idea was to learn to read labels, to know what's not on labels, and a highlight on the difference between Australian labels and ours, as a lot of our food come from Australia, among other countries. At the end of the tour, we got a goodie bag.

I've seen these before, but hadn't had one because yonks ago I bought some nice cotton ones shaped like a plastic shopping bag. From a distance the logo looked like a green-lipped mussel, which is a specialty of the region. I realized Thursday morning that it was a smiley plastic bag!

We're trying to get rid of plastic bags, yeah? So, why use a happy plastic bag as a "mascot"? It's like anti-whalers using a cute harpoon, or gun-control lobby using a smiley pistol as their symbols, I thought... Any other examples?

No matter, I'm not against recyclable bags...