Views from the train

Here's a self-portrait of shadows through the station glass.

Mostly the traintracks run through unpretty parts of town, but there are a few points of interest, like the estuaries in the west.

And the imposing Mount Eden prison on Boston Road, with its turrets and barred windows and all.

And there's graffiti everywhere.  Graffiti is pretty much the most common crime in Auckland.  I guess when it faces the tracks, no one bothers to try to remove it.  Some of it is just scribbles, but this building in New Lynn nearly has a complete mural.

And then when I get to work, I can put the urban grit of my commute behind me and just watch the cows in the field next door.

 

Or the ducks when they come quacking under my office window.