Robert Street Art

Thank you everyone for your commiserations on our drought situation, we have a little bit of water left that we are being very careful with that hopefully should last us until our delivery next Monday.

Moving right along...this is another mural by NZ street artist Rodrigo Rozas that I found in Whangarei recently, not sure of the name but it's on the corner of Robert and John Street. I posted a few months ago about one of his in Hikurangi.

Made from spray paint it was made in collaboration with fellow artist Mighty Duke. Rodrigo is a visual artist from Chile, who graduated in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in applied arts from Northtec. His art has a focus in street art, airbrushing and portraiture. He has completed many commission murals for schools, gyms and local business around Whangarei and the Northland area.

A few people have asked about the man's facial expression. In Maori culture the poking out of the tongue was used in warfare to intimidate the other side, kind of like what you would see in a rugby game where the All Blacks do the haka.

Linking up with Mural Monday and Our World Tuesday.

Auckland Metropolis Museum

In amongt the modern new highrise buildings in Auckland City is this smaller vintage building that is currently for sale (I'd buy it if I had the money). My research found that: "It was designed by English-born architect Charles Towle and erected in the early 1930s as the Church of Christ, Scientist, the building's Graeco-Roman facade has towering columns that frame its impressive entranceway, with three ornate timber doors decorated with leadlight inserts providing access to the expansive foyer. Arched ceilings dominate the former congregational high stud space beyond the foyer and numerous picturesque windows provide a light, airy feel and an ambience many office buildings lack. The building housed congregational and Sunday school services for 70 years until it was sold and converted into office space in 2003. A significant refurbishment was also carried out with care taken to ensure that the building's distinctive character remained intact. Special architectural ...

Family

Photo taken Spring 2024 in Auckland We have been invited to a family reunion in June 2026 which will be held in Auckland so I'm looking forward to catching up with relatives that I haven't seen in over 10 years. This week we have: Had a good chat with a friend who has also adopted a rescue dog - must arrange a play date. I've bought some non alcoholic liqueurs to mix up for mocktails which have been very nice as I don't really drink. We had a massive wind storm 2 days ago, we were ok but a good friend who lives 20 minutes away had a bolt of lightning strike her house, the result was a blown up power box inside and part of her kitchen got burned, she had to call out the fire brigade to put it out. And I have a question for you; when you add your blog post to a blog meme or a blog link up, do you expect the owner of that blog to at least come back and comment on the other blogs that have linked up to it including yours even if it's only occasionally? I actually th...

Hail

Spring is throwing out some strange weather right now. We don't get snow where we live but it is visible on some of the mountains around us over Winter. Last week around 4.30am we had a very loud thunderstorm with hail. It wasn't until an hour or so later my daughter said this is what she saw out on our deck. Clumps of hail all over the deck and on her hand. Apparently various other suburbs around town got it too. Linking up with Through my lens , Tuesday Treasures , My corner of the world , Wordless Wednesday .

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