Wide angle

Same building as yesterday, but a wider view east down Columbia Street, to the River Market at right, opposite the railway tracks.

Kid Stuff

This sort of design, while quirky, is most likely going to look garish and dated in a very short period of time.

Airborne

Ok. So. This appears to be a fire escape. The architecture surrounding these 3 tower blocks and associated shopping plaza is a little...baffling.

Indecent

Snapped this picture yesterday as today this football stadium will be used for the annual Grey Cup match. When I got home and read the news, I found out that there were reports of leaks in this $563 million structure. I'm sure the government could have found much more important places to spend that much money. The stadium staff have already struck for better wages and working conditions. How having pro sports teams became a symbol of a city's prosperity is beyond me.

Bridging

View down from the SkyTrain platform across Eighth Street.

Up there

Second Thought

Home of the region's first forestry school, set up in the early 1940s after everyone looked around and said, "Oh, gee, it seems we've cut down all of the trees!"

Dizzying Heights

Metal Stems

Compare this photo to the one from Sunday 20 November. Freaky.

These are metal poles arranged in the arboretum in Green Timbers park.

Shrooms

Interesting clump of mushrooms spotted on a forest walk in Green Timbers park.

Stems

Beautiful.

Forest Humour

According to a tourism brochure procured on the ferry, this guy is named "Smilin' Man", and visitors are challenged to find him as they walk the Killarney Loop Trail.

Heart

Mirror Mirror

Killarney Lake, at the base of Mount Gardner. Around the lake is a beautiful trail, about 4km in length.

Endor

Invaders

Trying to escape at the top of a mountain, but finding you're not exactly alone...

Eerie Feeling

This is your brain on nature.

Ending and Beginning

Where the road ends, the trail begins. Beginning the ascent to the summit of Mount Gardner (762m) on Bowen Island.

On Deck

Many a trip for someone in this area begins early morning on a ferry from Horseshoe Bay. This is the view over the front deck of the ferry to Bowen Island.

Peace

Bowen Island Cenotaph

Cloudburst

Red sky at night, sailor's delight.

Civic Duty

Just a couple of weeks until civic elections take place in every city in the province. It's always a little tougher to determine who to vote for as the provincial and federal parties don't run candidates per se, they simply endorse them. It takes a little more research.

To Market

View on the now monthly farmers' market at the River Market. The first Saturday of each month throughout the winter will be host to all sorts of vendors, from honey to garlic to jams to jewellery.

Incognito

Look who's still in his Hallowe'en costume!

Classic

Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in autumn colours.

Ox

Part of a Chinese Astrology mosaic in Chinatown, downtown Vancouver.

Who are you?

Lower Hume Park. Barred Owl.

Zipper?

According to the artist's statement:
This artwork addresses the primal power of life. Five huge granite slabs that transition from sharp to jagged to worn resemble a zipper that is being opened. Carefully selected trees with various growth speeds and root-ball size have been planted adjacent to the stones, giving the viewer the time-lapsed impression of powerful forces so apparently at work in the canyon below.