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Super 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 MoreLiving the Good Life
This is where some of us go after work in Vancouver. Even though I wrote the other day that summer is winding down on the west coast, we’ve rebounded from a few soggy days and are again enjoying gorgeous sunshine….
Read MoreRound and Round
… we go, looking down over a staircase that was, for me, the highlight of the building in which it’s encased. Known as the Snail Staircase, the Spiral Staircase and as the Momo staircase, I think of it simply as…
Read MoreOld Vancouver
… which is, of course, a relative term. Yes, I’m back to playing with reflections again, and hope you enjoy the juxtaposition between the old and the new. In this case, the old is championed (albeit in a reflection warped…
Read MoreDowntown Totems
Lately I’ve brought you images ranging from a totem pole near Lions Bay to the clock tower of an older building in Montreal. Today, I’m relying on modern Vancouver to bring you another take on reflective capacities. Rather than a…
Read MoreSculptured Trees
… or, a steel and glass roof designed to emulate rows of trees, whichever you prefer. This was the vision Portuguese architect Santiago Calatrava executed in designing Lisbon Oriente Train Station, known to locally as Lisboa Estacion Orient. Expositions often…
Read MoreNot-So-Rapid Transit
Ah, the romance of a horse-drawn carriage ride. In Seville. Sounds romantic, yes? Planning a not so long ago trip to New York City, I had the misguided notion of planning a carriage ride through Central Park. Speaking with an…
Read MoreTick, Tock
When you’re a Canadian living in a relatively new city such as Vancouver, there’s appreciation to be had for visiting older locales. I’ve yet to visit two of our oldest cities, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Quebec City, Quebec, but have…
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