At the corner of Davie & Denman, on my way to several errands, I found a scene that is oh-so Vancouver.
It’s got English Bay, the North Shore Mountains, bike racks, benches, freighters, palm trees, a Mobi station, dog walker, and a photographer snapping the famous “A-maze-ing Laughter” sculptures by Yue Minjun (which also form a maze).
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On my way from here to there, and heard this guy playing the summer public piano at Spyglass Dock. It’s one of Vancouver’s unique places.
Read more »Always a busy place that steadily becomes more visually interesting — False Creek near Granville Island in Vancouver.
Near the rose garden in Vancouver’s Stanley Park are some very carefully showy flower beds. They are clearly a labour of love.
This fish-themed mural is overlaid by guerrilla-style graffiti, and spiced with a little urban detritus.
I’m here waiting for the train on the Adanac bike route in Vancouver, and my Mobi bike share time is creeping towards the 30-minute limit for this ride.
Mild anxiety ensues. But as the graffiti says on one of the signal housings — “relax”.
Vancouver’s Point Grey Road on a Sunday afternoon in April. Where 6,000 – 10,000 motor vehicles once dominated most days, children now ride safely on a busy and spectacular Greenway. And the experience for everyone is terrific. Car-mageddon indeed.
Read more »Out for a walk after dinner, hoping for a monster sunset. But found this instead.
Much bigger and sort of more diverse, the 420 event continues to be part party, part protest, part display of teen-type defiance and part make-a-buck market.
But what is most striking is the growing size and professionalism of the biggest component — the trade show. Check out my pix.
