7 May 2021 – Well, here’s a near-generic urban redevelopment photo for you: detail-specific, in this case False Creek South, east end, but a common tide of events.
Out (R) with remnants of the Industrial Old, and in (L) with the Condo New.
I happen particularly to love that clapped-out, rusty old warehouse, or whatever it once was. I anthropomorphize it like crazy — yahh! you hang in there! love yer attitude!! — and I feel no shame.
I mean… just look. Despite weeds & chain-link fence, it really is somehow still hanging in, not yet knocked down (though a big wind might do the trick).
Yet I can’t be completely grumpy.
Because right next to it sit row upon row of neatly planted gardening boxes, all lined up behind that same chain-link fence and with a sign on the fence to make you pause, read, and puff out a happy little sigh.
Sole Food Street Farms — founded 2009, still active, here they are.
And here we all are, a poster on the utility pole next to the fence reminds me, here we all are, all us human beings …
messy, imperfect, and sometimes quite glorious. It’s just who we are.
So I walk on down to the Creek …
and enjoy myself.
WALKING WOMAN 