Fall colours are everywhere in the West End and I’m seeing them like a tourist, since we came back from our five-week jaunt through Europe. And I’m finding it beautiful.Leaves on the sidewalk outside King George Secondary School
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Friends know we love Hibiscus syriacus. They sent us photos of their plant. The hibiscus syriacus bush has been flowering since August 3 this summer. It has hundreds of buds waiting to bloom. Like the pictures? Not being Godzilla fans, we didn’t recognize the music that Canada had chosen for its 2008 display in the Celebration of Light last night in English Bay, Vancouver. But we sure enjoyed the show. Getting ready to watch the fireworks – the Celebration of Light – in Vancouver’s English Bay tonight at 10 p.m. Canada will compete. This has been a crows’ summer. Day after day, from around 4:30 a.m. on, many hours before most folks are ready to wake up, the crows are at it, high in the catalpa trees, their claxon caws announcing their carrion ways. If you Google Earth the heart of Vancouver’s West End, you come to Denman Street. The businesses in this colourful, intimate neighbourhood change so rapidly that I have often thought of photojournaling these changes. Denman at Nelson looking south. For many years, I searched for a spiritual home. I was raised Church of England with a little bit of Presbyterian, growing up in Great Britain, but the dogma seemed just that, too dogmatic. Too restrictive in style and thought. So I kept looking. Long story short, I didn’t find what I wanted. So I [...] A couple of days ago, we had a chance to get a really good look at a swallowtail butterfly that was sipping nectar from the red geraniums in our window boxes. Botanically known as a Pterocarya fraxinifolia, the Caucasian wingnut that occupies the corner of Comox at Chilco in Vancouver’s West End is a superb specimen. |
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