#2120 ... Last Minute WIN

Friday night rugby at the Stadium ... Hurricanes 29 vs The Crusaders 28. The Canes hang on for their first win of the season.

#2119 ... Kiwano

Any interesting look and taste ... now grown in New Zealand. The horned melon, also called African horned cucumber or melon, kiwano, jelly melon, hedged gourd, or melano, is an annual vine in the cucumber and melon family. It is considered to be the ancestor of the other cultivated melons. Often known by its nickname in the southeastern United States, blowfish fruit, it is grown for its fruit, which look like oval melons with horn-like spines. The fruit of this plant is edible, but it is used as often for decoration as for food. When ripe, it has a yellow-orange skin and a lime green, jelly-like flesh with a tart taste, and texture similar to a cucumber. The horned melon is native to Africa, and it is now grown in California, Chile, Australia and New Zealand, as well.

#2118 ... Fish & Chip Night

Port Nicholson marina ... a great summer night and fish and chips for dinner. Thanks to Amanda Stirling for the photo

#2117 ... Half a sheep

So here is your chance ... get a friend and buy the whole sheep !!

#2116 ... Happy Home Grown

Happy teenagers at the Home Grown Music festival on Saturday night. Great night, lots of people, great music ... multiple genres and mutiple stages ... Waterfront, Waitangi Park to Frank Kitts Park

#2115 ... Sunday Work

Ngaio Gorge Road is a busy place on week days so all the work digging up the middle of the road has to be done i the weekend ... preferably on a Sunday.

#2114 ... In Laws

The Homegrown Music Festival on the waterfront and a photo with the Boys in Blue ... at least it's not a mug shot post event!!

#2113... Dolphins

David is out an about with his camera .. and captured this magic moment yesterday when 100 or so dolphins came to play in the inner harbour at Oriental Bay ... awesome. Thanks David for another great Wellington moment.

#2112 ... The Effluent Society

At the Wellington Refuse Tip ... it was a busy day with queues of cars, vans, trucks all wanting to dump rubbish. This front end loader had its work cut out.

#2111 ... Chinese Street Parade

This image ... of colouful simplicity ... captures the essence of the Chinese Street Parade in Wellington on Sunday ... thanks to David Pears, for a striking picture.

#2110 ... Home Time

Meeting the midnight flight from Sydney ... 12.30am and the airport gets busy again.

#2109 ... Oblivious

Oblivious to the outside world ... and enjoying every moment

#2108 ... The Meeting Place

Midland Park on a sunny Saturday is still a popular meeting place.

#2107 ... Cracker to Go

Promotion for a local gym ... interesting.

#2106 ... Wellington Words

Check out the Absolutely Positively Wellington site .. this word image describes our wonderful capital city.

#2105 ... The White Piano

Shaun Preston entertaining the lunch time diners at Midland Park ... superb and worth repeating.

#2104 ... Amazing Fish

An amazing fish sculpture ... constructed from totara and copper by Doug Kennedy. Titled "in a Small Pond" and you can have this original for $5,000 ... view it at The Frame Shop in Traranaki Street, opposite Briscoes.

#2103 ... The Chook Wagon

The "Chook Wagon" outside Moore Wilsons Fresh in College Street ... a very European mode of transport ... and great food!

#2102 ... Standing Guard

Outside the Bangalore polo Club, Courtenay Place

#2101 ... Keeping it Clean

Keeping Courtenay Place clean and tidy ... thank you.

#2100 ... Two Trains

Two trains crossing over at Ngaio Station.

#2099 ... Afternoon Dinks

The early evening sunshine and a cool beer or a chilled wine ... nice way to end the day.

#2098 ... Little Boxes

From the air ... Haitaitai ... and the CBD beyond. Wellington's little boxes on the hillside.

#2097 ... Off to Work

Out of the garage and pushed to the helipad, ready for the day's work.

#2096 ... A Notable Visitor

The latest iteration of the Rainbow Warrior berthed at Queens Wharf in Wellington today

#2095 ... Welcome to the Day

Sunrise to another awesome day.

#2094 ... More Waiting

Waiting for the boss outside the BNZ on Willis

#2093 ... In red

Waiting for the bus on the corner by Parliament.

#2092 ... The Side Step

Navigating the pedestrian traffic on Willis.

#2091 ... Protoplasm

Cnr Hunter St, Featherston St and Lambton Quay

#2090 ... Yellow Tops

Many buildings in the city are undergoing strengthening to meet the building code for earthquakes. This is work going on in the Harbour City Centre ... safety protection on the ends of the reinforcing steel during construction.

#2089 ... It just takes a day

Fantastic hot sunny calm weather over the weekend ... and the next day it all changes ... heavy rain though not cold, windy and crap. Hmmmm ... farmers are happy!

#2088 ... Character Shopping

YES .. even those that fully embrace the Seven's weekend in Wellington ... still need to visit the supermarket ... and their presence gives some added colour to the daily chore. What an awesome weekend ... awesome weather ... awesome tournament. Bring on 2014.



and another image to show how clean the whole show was!!

#2087 ... Faces of the Sevens

The eclectic colourful and happy faces of the Sevens Rugby weekend in Wellington

#2086 ... Sevens Parade

The NZ Army Band in the Rugby Sevens parade through Wellington .. and in keeping with the event some have even dressed up!!

#2085 ... On yer Trike

Waiting for energetic people on a hot and sunny day. The Lagoon.

#2084 ... The Dock of the Bay

Sitting enjoying the sun and the sea ... Queens Wharf.

#2083 ... Wasted but Tidy

Cardboard waste kept tidy positioned between two trees, waiting for collection. Lambton Quay

#2082 ... Technical 0, Artistic 8

Diving off the stairway on Taranaki Street Wharf ... no fear and very creative in a random sort of way. Roof of Te Papa in the background.

#2081 ... Simple Yellow

The simple yet complex design of the ubiquitous dandelion flower ... covering lawns one flower at a time!!

#2080 ... Lunch Line

Lined up at the Civic Square eating lunch on a superb summer day. Obviously attending a conference at the Town Hall ... note the neck tags.

#2079 ... Coffee Break

Taking a coffee break in the street at Bordeaux Bakery, Johnston Street

#2078 ... Higher perspective

Looking north along the one way part of Lambton Quay ... Old Bank Arcade (undergoing maintenance) centre right of frame and Stewart Dawsons (pale olive) building to the left ... the old facade of Wellington mingled with the not so new and the more contemporary glass monoliths.THANKS TO TOM WEBER for the image

#2077 ... Double Take

Another of the morning flower deliveries for a corporate office. Featherston St

#2066 ... Classic

And another wedding from the long weekend .. and this time with a touch of "classic" ... a Jaguar MkII ... coulour co-ordinated with the happy couple ... and the photographer looks pleased with the outome of the photoshoot. Boatshed, Taranaki St Wharf.

#2065 ... The Place to Be

Wellington this morning ... MAGIC ... image by the man himself, Jonny Mole from Chilli. THANKS