The Larder Spruce or Squirrelling Away

The first found, neatly placed mushroom is a puzzle, the second, slightly higher up is a clue.  The answer is squirrels, their thoughtful and perfectly poised provisions seem seem to be both a food guide to wild mushrooms and a map of their territory, an insight to how  squirrels think.  How do they navigate back to find their fungi? When do they plan to to cash in their caches?  Are their mushroom thieves about?

Afternoon's Reversal of Morning's Clouds

Lake Louise, Alberta, the snow capped peaks, the kind of scenery  that gives grandstands, start off the day a little coy, cloud-hidden, perhaps ascending forever. Late afternoon the cloud chapeau drops to show off the mountains' considerable decolletage.

A Fish-ancy - Best Manhole Cover in Vancouver

I keep an optimistic  eye out for stylish manhole covers, though well designed ones are rare finds outside of Japan.  But then I saw three of these wonderfully fishy-man ones on the corner of Jervis and  West  Georgia Street, Vancouver. Perhaps there are more, somewhere else. I hope so, I am in complete agreement with the evolutionary aptness of the fish-ancestor and the seethy sea and river feeling of abundance. Bravo.

East meets West - Orienteering at Stanley Park

Why a rock looks photogenic is anybody's business, though I suspect it is the tenacity of the tuft of tree on top that clinches it for this orphan by the sea wall at Stanley Park. Then there is the curious business of why it seems Eastern, and really why has this antiquated reference endured Post-Copernicus, and why do I  use this lazy language short-cut, the whole conundrum only exacerbated by being on the West Coast of Canada and east of the East.

Pre-Pixelated in a Whalish Way

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Douglas Coupland's pre-pixelated Orca takes the worry out of focus, or I should say the focus out of worry? Vancouver's sea-wall walk with its aerial boat shed, or is it a grey gantry for a tall stevedore, is similarly loaded with the ambiguous.   Some may say it is a leap of faith but I'm saying pull the other Lego.

Granville Bridge's Curlicues and Berries

Arriving to rain in Vancouver, not unheard of here I'm told, the lovely bookends of Granville Bridge are best seen from the ferry wharf. The charm of these small and sturdy ferries, plying the river, is in best seen as they pull into the jetty.  Granville Island's Food Market is a robust collection of mongeries, though  I doubt the locals would enjoy getting a basket and themselves through the crowd of tourist. Though perhaps it was the rain. Best in show? Berries.