Through the elevator shaft

Metrotown entrances

Just a few of the entrances to the largest shopping mall in BC

Bear Creek Park

Pruning

Let's just say this is what happens after some serious tree pruning

41st & Victoria

A stand alone coffee stand at Victoria Square located on the corner of Victoria and East 41st Ave.

Royal Oak

This formerly was the provincial correction centre. The redevelopment was completed in the late 1990's. It is on the north slope of a hill. The bottom portion remains undeveloped and incorporated into the Deer Lake Park.

Surrey Arts Centre

Keeping it clean

Vancouver with the outside workers on strike for 5 weeks now one would expect the garbage bins full and spilling over at least like the photo above. This scenario, however, is not happening. Reasons being the city's salaried staff is staying on top of the clean up detail, somebody said private disposal companies have been collecting 1/3 of the garbage already, some residents are shipping theirs along with a bottle of wine to friends in surrounding municipals, and a troop of volunteers such as the one below.

YVR arts

Tattoos

Tattoos used to appealed to a limited segments of society. Over the past decade it has moved beyond that and into the more mainstream. The tattoos on this young mother of two is testimony to this shift.

At the nursery

Airport scenes

Please note this advertisement has no Japanese at all. Does this mean the number of Japanese visitors had declined significantly?

Red Rider

The big difference between a guy and and gal show up even when riding a hog on the road. See how her outfit is colour coordinated with her bike? The best a guy would do is black on black.

Flame thrower

Crossing the street today I spotted this vintage vehicle, Ford Pinto. Very surprise to see one after all these years. A bit of background for the benefits of the younger generation, this was Ford's response to the Japanese sub-compacts that gained a foothold and started to climb the sales chart.

The car did surprisingly well despite many shortcomings including a sever
lack of power. What did it in was a series of rear end accidents which resulted in deadly fire.

A cloudy day

Looking east towards Lougheed Town Centre in the distance on a cloudy day.

It's free

Is it that people will line up for anything that's free? This is a line up for a small can, 8 oz, of Coke. Or the hot weather had something to do with it?

Hello Kitty

One of Japan's biggest cultural export. I believe it is suppose to bring good fortune and wealth.

Self-portrait

Only the shadow knows?

Reading

This reminds me of my salad day when Chinese reading material was hard to come by in North America. Unlike today public libraries didn't carried any. Most Chinatowns had one Chinese bookstore and pricey.

A ritual of growing up in North America was attending Chinese school on weekends. On these weekends some of us would dropped into the bookstore during lunch break. We would stand and read as much as possible during the 30 - 45 minutes.

On display

A nursery has this miniature garden fountain/waterfall on display.

Bored

Waiting outside the front door of Mountain Co-op on West Broadway

Stretching

By the entrance to Opus in Granville Island

Sumo competition

The start of a sumo wrestling competition in the window of a Japanese restaurant.

Sumo wrestler

In the windows of a Sushi restaurant.

Japanese doll

A display in the window of a store specializing in Japanese dinning utensils.

Finishing touch

Putting the finishing touch on a project first posted here on July 29, 2007.

On a leash

At the Surrey Art Gallery front desk.