Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Close-up

A contribution to Cee’s Black & White photo challenge theme of close-up

Weekly Photo Challenge: Numbers

The Hikitia

Taken and posted in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge prompt of numbers

Thursday Doors- June 2, 2016

On the Waterfront (VI)

A contribution to Norm’s Thursday Doors photo challenge

Black & White Sunday: Timeless

The Thistle Inn

Destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1866, the diminutive Thistle Inn has stood in modest splendour on the same spot for the last 175 years. From its wide front windows it has watched a cavalcade of Wellington’s history pass by and rubbed shoulders with politicians, felons and the famous characters of New Zealand history. Today, protected by a Category One Preservation Order, it is still popular with local office workers for a lunchtime break and in the evening it still resonates with the sounds of talk, laughter and the clink of glasses.

The story has it that local chief Te Rauparaha would pull up his waka (canoe) on the shore outside the pub (prior to the 1855 eathquake the bar stood right on the foreshore) wander in and order a whiskey and no one had the courage to charge him.  Sadly there is no evidence to verify this.

Taken and posted for Paula’s Black and White challenge with the theme of timeless

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Flowers

A contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge with the theme of flowers