Perhaps it’s the busy work week that’s drawing me to bring you images today of relative quiet.

Here, near a popular Vancouver area beach, it was this bike parked by a colourful clump of wildflowers that pulled some of us off our intended walk … and ’round the corner to a treasure trove of wild blackberries. Smaller than the plump and juicy berries cultivated not far away in the Fraser Valley, they were nonetheless sweet – and all the more so for the gentle hum of bees, and the sense of having stumbled, early the other morning, upon a little known secret.