15 March 2024 – It all begins at Kingsway & East Broadway, waiting for the lights to change. I look up.

Guide wires…

glide the # 8 trolley bus around the corner below, and adorn the sky above while they’re at it.

Next day, one neighbourhood to the west, gingerbread…

protects this vintage bay window, and adorns it as well.

Across the street in Major Matthews Park, rampant ferns…

will surely over time help destroy this pergola roof, but meanwhile adorn it very prettily.

Finally, this morning, an intentional rather than accidental green roof — the one atop the Visitor Centre at the VanDusen Botanical Garden. This solar chimney…

serves the planet, adorns the ceiling that it also pierces — and helps illustrate why the Centre won the 2014 World Architecture Most Sustainable Building Award.