11 July 2020 — We’re in downtown Vancouver, Yaletown neighbourhood, and, yes, we are here to stare at stairs. (Oh, such an obvious pun — but sometimes, you just let yourself pick that low-lying fruit.)
We’re on the hunt for a BIA morale-boosting project, artists invited to let loose on the edges and stairways of some of the area’s street-side terraces (architectural remnants of previous industrial life).
But stairs aren’t all that’s worthy of a gawk or two.
We tilt-head, open-mouth our way through the parkette immediately behind the Skytrain station at Davie & Mainland.
I’ve seen an installation of overhead umbrellas here before — a rainbow of colours then, solid yellow now. Yellow for hope and remembrance, the signage tells us.
More yellow umbrellas, this time café patio adornments, up a block at Hamilton and Davie streets. With bright new mural-work below.
We are not impressed. We are righteously indignant.
Fine, love the defiant messsage of continued strength & presence: “We’re here.” But is it too much to ask for an apostrophe? Apparently, yes it is, and we grumble away to each other very happily. What-is-this-younger-generation-coming-to-I-ask-you?
Until we turn the corner, and burst out laughing. And blush.
We only saw half the message.
No apostrophe called for. “Wish you were here.”
See? Sometimes the grumbling old biddies are wrong.
Much cheered, we carry on along Hamilton Street.
Shark’s teeth don’t seem to me a very welcoming symbol — come visit, snap-munch — but yes, it is bold & handsome & owns that staircase.
Moving on, and aha, here we go! very welcoming indeed.
All hearts & loving bilingual messages.
I play with its angles, like the way railings, steps, wall & ground all dance with each other.
And then there’s Chameleon Long Dog.
Still giggling, we turn away.
Only to discover that Hamilton Street offers more than cafés and murals. Its boutiques also offer décor tips. Nay… rules.
There is Correct and there is Incorrect in this world, so pay attention.
We argue ambiably about that all the way to the Skytrain station.
SueBee and Kat
/ 11 July 2020I thoroughly enjoyed your pictures and laughed with the apostrophe!
icelandpenny
/ 11 July 2020yes… you can understand why, under the circs, we were so happy to be wrong
Kellie
/ 11 July 2020Lovely walk, and I agree with the right way 😉
icelandpenny
/ 11 July 2020Me too! my friend holds firmly to the other way…
Lynette d'Arty-Cross
/ 12 July 2020I love the Long Dog and the correct and incorrect toilet paper installations sign! Such fun! 🙂
icelandpenny
/ 12 July 2020this fixation on toilet paper “styling”! as if we hadn’t bigger things to think about…
Lynette d'Arty-Cross
/ 12 July 2020That’s for sure!
Rio
/ 12 July 2020I recently discovered that I had hung the toilet paper roll the wrong way and you know what? I left it that way, just to see.
So far so good. I’ll let you know.
icelandpenny
/ 12 July 2020& hurray for you! surely we can each decide for our own self???
sloppy buddhist
/ 12 July 2020It does seem that the correct way to hang tp paper has been talked about 🤔☺️ another happy walk Penny I also enjoy seeing them ~ have a productive day smiles Hedy 🙋♀️☀️
icelandpenny
/ 12 July 2020a balcony birthday lunch (distancing observed), so, yes, a happily productive day! thnx…
bluebrightly
/ 12 July 2020What a pleasure and a delight it was to take this walk with you-all! (You’d hope that in as seemingly open-minded a place as Vancouver, no one would be telling anyone else how to hang a roll of toilet paper! Correct? Incorrect? Puh-lease!).
icelandpenny
/ 12 July 2020yes, really … we just possibly have bigger issues to think about than which way to hang the TP!
bluebrightly
/ 13 July 2020🙂
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