Wreck chord l'eau

I don't know about you, but I love the cold. This time of year is one of my favourites, and not just because of skiing. I love frost almost as much as I love fog, and I love walking to work in the cold, with me gloves, hat and walkman on.

I took the camera with me this morning and took some pictures. Please remember that this is the camera which now has neither an optical viewfinder nor a visible LCD screen. If the framing is a bit off in some of the pictures, well, I was just lucky to even be facing the right way.

This is some spiky frost on the top of the Volvo:


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Close-up:



If you don't find those little crystals incredible, well . . . you bloody should!

This is the top of our letterbox, which is normally a flat, smooth metal sheet. It is not hairy, as it appears here:


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This is the empty section at the end of the street. Nothing like a frosty sunrise to make even the normally dull look cool:


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Looking through the Claudelands fence towards the city, the sun reflecting off some building or other:


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More Claudelands:


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I'm pretty happy with this one (O'Neill Street), wish I'd managed to get the tree at the right completely in frame though:


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How's this for a (blind) macro shot?


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. . . . aaaaand a close-up:



Last one (honest) - here's the Waikato, steaming away:


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C-O-M-M-E-N-T
Find out what it means to me . . .

More like Awesome Hutt am i rite?

Thanks to Eion for sending me a photo of a smashing stencil, somewhere near where he lives:



What more can be said really, apart from here's where it is:


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the walls have eyes

No, I'm not on some kind of street art crusade, I've just been meaning to do this for a while, so here's some more.

The "sandpit" wall at Wintec (right on the corner of Ward and Tristram Streets) always seems to have some "proper" graffiti on it. I don't know if it's officially sanctioned, but I assume it must be. It changes from time to time - this is what's on here at the moment:


(that's F Block in the background, not allowed to knock that one down)

From right to left:


Fists?


"Pest" I think, then maybe "Dr. Eto"?


No idea about the two on the sides, but the middle one seems to be "Spel" hurrr.


"Tuff Love"'s been on the far left for years, "meh" for not much less time.

The next one's up on weird old Nisbet Street, right at the western end of F Block:


This little (about 20cm long) guy used to be everywhere, sometimes with rainbow stripes. The spectacles and unicorn horn are later additions.

The last one's opposite Mr. Zebracorn:


Some days feel a bit like this for everyone.

Send your own in please!