18 April 2024 – A bright, gusty day and, I swear, you can practically see the sun’s rays bounce around in the breeze.

So I play that game, as I walk my Cambie Loop around the east end of False Creek. I watch the bounce of the sun, as it…

• ripples across this disused West 1st Ave. workshop…

• triangulates Science World’s geodesic dome…

• transforms a boring building (L) into a darkly magic reflection (R)…

• warms the backs of a newbie dragon boat team, intent on their coach’s mid-stream lecture…

• sparkles a V-trail of diverging wakes, ferry eastbound but another dragon boat now veering west toward Cambie Bridge…

• rolls across the spring-tidied plots of John McBridge Community Garden, beside the bridge…

• and shoots silver into the sky from the fingers atop the Neighbourhood Energy Utility, also beside the bridge (where waste heat from sewers is recycled into heat & hot water for local use).

I drop down from the bridge and nod to the Community Garden on my way by. It’s a nod of fellow-feeling: my next stop is a garden centre.