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This year I’m doing a project that quite a few people have done – Project 365 – which is to take a photo every day of the year. I don’t really have an artistic goal in mind, not aiming to get better at taking photos or anything like that, it’s just I take quite a lot of photos of random, every day things anyway so I thought I might as well make a conscious effort to take and publish one photo a day.

So, January is over and I have 31 photos for the project so far.

The photos are published on Flickr, in my set called Project 365.

Went for a wander today up to Aro Street – I can’t believe how relentless the wind is at the moment and I certainly wasn’t dressed for summer. Aro Street looks a bit like small town New Zealand in this photo – not a city suburb.

This is the first photo I’m bringing you from my Flickr account. See how you get on … you can click on it.

Spotted my first full red tree on the way to Nikau today – they really are pretty amazing.

And a couple more spotted when walking around town after Christmas – this one on Oriental Parade

And this one right in the city on Taranaki Street

Went over to Martinborough for our Christmas party yesterday – we went on the train and toured 2 wineries and an olive grove before ending up at Murdoch James for more tasting and dinner. It was a pretty cool afternoon – can’t remember laste time I went on  train locally and the trip to Featherston went by pretty quickly.

It was really windy in Martinborough but it was cool hanging around chatting with everyone. At Palliser ,

And wandering through the olive grove at Olivo.

Train got us back into town by 10pm so all in all a good afternoon and a nice break from the city.

Yep – the tall building research in Wellington continues even at the weekend – yesterday it was the Plimmer Towers. Although we’ve had the contract through for our 29th floor apartment in New York so it’s a bit late to back out now!

I didn’t think I’d be able to get into Plimmer Towers and certainly not at the weekend – however the glass doors opened when I approached them so there was no stopping me. The Mister followed with trepidation muttering that he’d never been in there before and how would we know where to go?  I just hissed that we should act as though we knew what we were doing for the benefit of the security cameras so I followed the sound of the ‘ding’ the lift made when the person who we’d tail-gated into the building called it and (thankfully the doors closed on her before we got there) punched the call button. Lift arrived, got in, noted the number of floors, got out and left the building as swiftly as we’d come.

31 floors.

This has got to be a classic New Zealand shot – Christmas trees leaning up out the front of the petrol station. It’s truly Christmas time. These in Miramar yesterday.

Looks pretty tall from the outside, obviously couldn’t get into the lifts as it’s in the office block tower, but my best count from the outside is that it’s about 17 floors. So a pipsqueak really.

Using my best blending in skills based on every who dunnit/detective show I went into the foyer of the Majestic Tower this week, curious to see how many floors it had. Seeing as we’re seriously considering New York apartment on the 29th floor I wanted to get a feel for how high that might be – but finding a 29+ storey building in Wellington is not that easy – there’s a couple that might stretch that far – Majestic and the what used to be pinky/orange Plimmer Towers.

So have done the Majestic. I got a looking straight-up photo from the foyer and summoned the lift – didn’t get in it the first time as a guy suddenly arrived so I pretended I was very busy and important with my phone to avoid getting in the lift with him, but when summoned a second time, I rushed in, noted the button for the highest floor and rushed out again before the doors could close.

28 floors.

Summer paid us a visit today so we wandered the long way home from Nikau to make the most of it. Noted a couple of new caravans along the way.

Orange coffee caravan on the waterfront – didn’t try it.

Strange fairy caravan on Ghuznee Street – seems to be some kind of hang-out-with-me place – fur-padded with a few little shirts and soft toys for sale. Rather bizzare.

Well, not this week but summer and Christmas are coming.

This post is just an excuse to post (including pic) from my phone now that I have a newly installed app to do it.