Change

 Cell phone pictures from the same window at work. They are building a new hospital there. It amounts to a small town on a city block. It will change everything. It will change this city. 

Botanical Beach, BC

The weather co-operated. Botanical Beach is just past Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. This was my second time there. The first was 6 or 7 years ago, thereabouts. 
 

Barge

A barge. On the beach in Vancouver. It was supposed to be removed after a few days but it's been there for weeks now. It's a little bit of unplanned honesty on the waterfront of this city. Everything else is perfectly composed and regulated and permitted. This little blemish on the shores of the most livable (and most expensive) city in the world is a nice little reality check. I like it. I hope they fill it with dirt and plant it full of trees and paint a mural on the side of it and just let it sit there and rot. I'm sure the owners would gladly donate it rather than be faced with the cost of its extraction. If it was going to be cheap and easy, it would be gone already. 

Vancouver's barge. I saw it. I hope it stays. 

October 4, 1971. 50 years later

It's been a while since I've done this. It's been even longer since I've ridden that horse too. 

So I went for a walk. 

Truck

 

Over a decade in this city. It's hard to find different things to take photos of. There are three different trucks that park down this blind ended street and I've taken pictures of them all more than once. So here's some more. Because I'm still here. 

Lion's Gate Bridge

In one of the earliest real estate scams, the Guinness family (yup, that one) bought a whole bunch of land in West Vancouver, about 4700 acres of land, in the early 1900s and then took part in the process of having the bridge permitted for construction in the 1930s or so. It was completed in 1938 and they charged a toll of 25cents to cross it in a car, or horse and carriage because it was 1938, or if you wanted to walk across it it would cost you a nickel. In 1955, the Guiness family sold the bridge to the province for exactly the amount it cost them to build it (and they presumably got to keep the 17 years of collected tolls) so it cost them nothing to build in the end. And all that land they bought in West Vancouver became much more valuable now that a bridge was in place to connect it to Vancouver proper. 60-70,000 vehicles cross the bridge daily. I walked under it for the first time. And took some photographs.

 

A man and his dog.

No good reason. Which is a good enough reason.

Stay tuned....