Have wheels...

...will travel

Windblown

Gate to the beach track

 This is the back gate from where we used to stay as kids.

Through the gate, down the bush track and 

you were at the river mouth and the beach.

Great times.

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Gingerbread houses

Made by a grandson. 

At the moment he is training to be a baker.

 He made these gingerbread houses for his siblings and cousins for Christmas.

 They had a wonderful time with the top one 

as we all got together on New Years Day and demolished it, 

it was full of lollies which really excited the little ones.

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Could be...

I enjoyed this piece of advertising

Street artist at work

A Waihola paddock

Mosgiel Presbyterian

Mosgiel Presbyterian Church,

Dunedin

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Dunedin stadium

Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin

Heading westward

Felling the fence

Our neighbours are felling their hedge which some people call a living fence.

First a very nice young man came along with a chain saw and felled about 30 foot of it.

He then fed it into the mulcher, causing a lot of fine sawdust to float over our fence covering our outdoor furniture in a fine film.

We still have to get to the finish line but this is how the living fence is looking today.

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Good fences

Pancakes for tea

Hard yakka

Lawrence Methodist Church

Methodist Church, Lawrence

The Methodist church in Lawrence. 

As far as I know it is still holding regular Sunday services.

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A spot of cheer

A new purpose

Semi rural

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Entrances

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Rust and wood

 

Spotted while out and about on holiday.

I have no idea what the rusty piece is 

but it looks good and I'm sure someone will know.

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rubbish Tuesday

A leafy canopy

Holy Trinity, Lawrence

With the two earthquakes that hit the

Christchurch, New Zealand area in 2010/2011 

all public buildings throughout the country had to be re-assessed 

for future insurance purposes. 

This of course included all church buildings of all denominations.

Holy Trinity Church

Unfortunately a lot of the older churches in the country

didn't come up to standard and needed too much work for their parishes

 to bring them up to scratch.

from the road

This has resulted in a large number of small country parishes, 

and some inner city parishes as well, 

 losing the churches they have worshiped in for generations.

The bell tower

Holy Tinity Anglican church in Lawrence is one such church.

These are some snaps I took recently as we were passing through.

notice of final service

The final service in Holy Trinity took place on

January 11th, 2015 at 8:30am 

presided over by Bishop Kelvin.

He describes the 1000 year old font belonging to 

the church and gives a brief history of it here.

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A solitary worker

Behind a ditch

Don't be fooled, 

there's a deep ditch on this side of the fence,

just behind the agapanthus.

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Ducks, ducks and more ducks

In the Silverstream

by the dozen

 At Lowburn

mother duck with ducklings

 Oamaru gardens

duck, duck, goose and the odd sea gull

 Lake Waihola

doing what ducks do best

In a city carpark

decorative duck

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In flower

Aloe vera

Some old timers

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Off the wall

Wrecked...maybe