A Busy week has seen several new
projects get underway whilst working hard to complete ones now running
overtime.It has not however prevented me visiting the site daily during tea
breaks to see whets new .
So a shortened write up this week
with a few photos of interest, not that I have run out of painting images to
show , there are literally hundreds filed over the past ten years and more with
stories behind them will follow in later weeks.
If you read the thread about the
'war games in my street'( in the FORUM ) the attached photo shows several 'Unimog' lorries of
the NZ Army arriving at the end of the driveway last Tuesday.. it appears they
have been around the district for a few weeks with other residents reporting odd
activity including large explosions in the foothills during
exercises.
On Sunday I travelled with my wife
who had an unexpected work call out to Waikanae the first town south of Otaki
ten miles away.
On the way home sitting in the
passenger seat I took quite a few shots of the area and the one shown is taken
just north of Waikanae showing how quiet the main highway was -normally on a
Sunday it would be packed with weekenders returning to Wellington . Meantime a
goods train heading north with no less than 5 locomotives attached and one 'dead
' one as part of its consist is overtaken by us.
Lastly I have included a photo
showing one small part of the mural commissioned at Southwards Car Museum
-largest in the Southern Hemisphere . This was 86 feet in total by 7 feet high
and showed 7 preserved racing cars most worth over one million dollars each on a
track representing Levin's racetrack ( next town 12 miles north of us)in
the early 1970's. It includes over 60 vehicles along the racetrack and over 1200
spectators are shown , plus an aeroplane and extra things to add to the
atmosphere. It is the largest road transport mural in a New Zealand Museum
taking six months to complete.
Another mural is now in early
construction and expect to commence work on this shortly.
Well its back to the brushes and I
wish you all a very happy and safe week ahead.
kind regards,
Wallace
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