I have been on the move or the last ten days or so. We did some driving around on the South Island and enjoyed the difference of landscapes. I tried with a short one, but my capacity to get online in some of the places we stayed at only showed me my woeful lack of tech savvy.
But that isn't what this post is about. Before I left or this "side trip" I hadn't had time to finish posting the first part of my visit in Wellington and surround. Then I was worried about being too linear and literal in what I was seeing, like the order of what I was seeing was important.
It's not.
My head is swimming with images grand and the small. The vehicles, the plants, the rivers and the trees. Then, of course, there are doors and windows. Everything is wonderful.
I wanted an order to put them in, so I thought of themes.
Like the cars and trucks I have seen here. Food trucks, ancient American pickups. Trailers and camper vans.
The diversity of plants, at first glance, seems somewhat limited. But there are big differences even there. The rivers I am seeing are so full of minerals and runoff that they are the most extraordinary blues.
Architecture still astounds me, draws me in through it's doorways, makes me peek through it's windows.
Continuously enchanted. I am sure I can be tiresome about it.
So, on to the themes!
These are all commemorative in one way or another.
To the cooperation of Australia and New Zealand.
Wonderful carving? sand blasting.
Looser interpretations of "memorial".
A Memorial to the oldest house in Petone (the original site of the Capital of NZ in the 18oo's.
I'm not sure if this qualifies as a memorial, other than to the use of so many Paua shells in one place.
And yes, it is a large open air place, by the sea and in quite a grand scale. I was a little taken aback at the amount of time and energy this would have taken, plus all the beach combing to find all the shells.
Some scale in the matter.
Testament to the destruction in Christchurch
The 148 people who died in the earthquake were honored with this installation near the Cardboard Cathedral.
A bit of information.
The Cardboard Cathedral. Made with sonotube of all kinds of sizes, shipping containers and stained glass here and there.
This building, what's left of it, is a monument in itself. Somehow, the basement has filled with water, then someone has artfully placed decoy ducks here and there. I was not able to "capture" some of the ducks.
Well, that's enough for tonight. More stuff coming up. Always more stuff.
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