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Hope
Hope is a small town through which many British Columbians have driven, travelling to or from what we call the Lower Mainland to other parts of the province. Minivans, SUVs and carloads of families count on Hope as a pit…
Read MoreSuper Moon Over Palma
With the moon and our planet being generally 328,900 kilometers or 283,000 miles apart, we tend to get excited when it feels so close we might touch it. While apogee is the term used for that period in a given…
Read MoreWild Thing
Don’t let the beauty here fool you; this one was alert to the slightest sound in the early morning light. Am posting this black and white beauty with a nod of appreciation to Melbourne-based Leanne Cole. Leanne hones her art…
Read MoreAll is Calm
Perched above the lighthouse in West Vancouver’s Lighthouse Park, we have nature’s original infinity pool, with scatterings of sailboats and some motor boats enjoying great boating weather.
Read MoreSquamish Nation
Driving the Sea to Ski Highway between Vancouver and Whistler, there’s splendid scenery every where around you. Here, just west of Lions Bay, you can pull off to the side of the road to take in the views of mountains,…
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Hidden Treasures
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…
Read MorePink Champagne
… or, even better, the drawing to a close of another summer evening. Here at Kits Beach, while the violinist beneath her preferred tree draws her bow to tell the tale of Danny Boy, and the volleyball teams spike balls…
Read MoreRoom With A View
BC is full of great hiking and biking trails, and here we have a peek through the window of what I’ll describe to you as a rustic, compact structure out in the woods.
Read MoreSpinning Copper and Gold
While it may appear that a generous spider is spinning copper and gold from some form of enchanted web, this image actually reflects a happy collaboration between a sunny evening, a spider web, a maple tree and some interesting angles.
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