1 June 2019 – Oh, forget the calendar. Canadians know that once the 24th of May holiday is past … and the weather is warm… it is summer.
Time to enjoy.
Which is exactly what I see happening, in assorted manifestations, all along my walk west on the False Creek south seawall, up into Granville Market & South Granville, and eventually back over into Mount Pleasant.
Man props up his bike, sinks into a freshly-repainted Muskoka chair on Spyglass Dock, and relaxes into the sunshine, bare ankles & all …
Crow preens atop the nearest lamp post, bare beak & all …
Very small craft await spring fix-ups (in contrast to sparkling larger neighbours) …
Goslings learn to look both ways before they cross the bike path through Charleson Park …
Yellow Something pretends to be a bright red poppy in the Charleson Park Community Garden …
Labyrinth detail pretends to be the eyes & beak of a ferocious owl (or vice-versa) on a sea wall lookout near Granville Market …
Patch on battered building in Granville Market doesn’t pretend to be anything but what it is, rust …
Child discovers the splash-pad fire hydrants in the Granville Market playground turn on and off, all by themselves …
A festival poster in the Market acknowledges (as all events now do) where we work, live and play …
Guys on the left edge of a Granville Bridge on-ramp watch pigeons eat grain, lower right; neither group pays any attention to the mural trio, upper right, admiring the mural tribute to Lawren Harris; for that matter, the mural trio pays no attention to man-on-bike emerging from that red door on their left …
A sunbather in Jonathan Rogers Park bares more than her ankles & toes (take that, Mr. Spyglass Dock Man) …
And a bakery signboard on the Kingsway …
proves that not all Vancouverites are fitness freaks.