Top o'the south images

I went out and about today, revisiting old haunts: the hospital I worked in as a school-leaver, where I found all was wrack and ruin but got a lovely  'original down-pipe' photo. For what it's worth (nothing to anyone else probably, but to me, a lot), here it is.

I wandered through the city also, looking for a bookshop with Sun Tsu's classic 'The Art of War' and on the way spotted this marvellous bicycle.

Then we drove out along Atawhai Drive to the Teal Valley to find the riverside cottage I lived in at age 19. Beside the road grew a flowering shrub from which this unopened flower hung. Got dat?

A very relaxing day was had by us all. We met Estelle and Alex at a French cafe, where I ate a wonderful French crepe-y kind of thing that was covered with goat cheese and figs, while Alex explained what I had done wrong with my Ubuntu-loaded computer. All is well now. Then we paid a visit to the Waimarama Community garden at the top of Brook Street and drifted around amongst the mustard and the mingionette for a half hour before being almost overcome by Nelson's doziness and drove back here for an afternoon snooze and a chance to publish these photos. The sun, it still shines here in Nelson.