Hanging lights

Lights by the Sears entrance on the third floor

Photo with Santa

In this shopping mall the setting for the traditional photo with Santa is ready to go. My thinking is it'll open for business this weekend since parents will want to mail enclose the photos with the annual Christmas cards.

Before & after

This is the before when the workers busy getting the "Photo with Santa" setup ready.


This is the after, a day later.

Slow down

It is heartening to see Work Safe BC and the people responsible for the Canada Line project to remind drivers along Cambie to slow down during construction. However we, the motorists, know or have enough common sense to avoid the area entirely. As a matter of fact enough people had avoided the construction zone that many businesses are closing their doors after struggling for the last two years.

Lookout tower

A tower overlooking the lake against a dark cloudy sky which the morning sun struggled to break through.

Early start

This discarded paper cup with Christmas scenes shows that the giant Canadian donut chain, Tim Horton's, is one of the many companies who are pushing their customers to get into the Christmas spirit since the day after Halloween.

Remembrance Day

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918), Canadian Army