A Day in the Life

A day late, sorry (my brother was over last night), but nevertheless, a day!

It's been a while since I took some pictures of my walks, so here you go. My day in summer.

I love this overgrown garden (it's much bigger):
These little heads have appeared in the last couple of months. I always say hello.

Walking down one of the main boulevards towards town:

A rare shot with no street people!

I like the mix of this church (now a music conservatory) and the crane:

I cropped out the masses of homeless people and drug addicts. Yay!

This is one of my "time checks" to make sure I'm not late:

That's City Hall. And it's 8:05 - yup, right on time.

These next two pictures are ones that I've been meaning to take for months. They are redeveloping an old department store downtown - I used to go there with my mom and my brother when I was a kid. My dad actually worked there as a stock boy when he was a teenager. Once, he took us up to the roof, because he remembered the way up.

This is some of the tile on the end of the parkade:

I love the mix of those colours. And they remind me so much of the store.

So does the "Aisle" designations:

And see the star? That was to help you find your car. I remember Mom manouevering our VW bus through this parkade. Those are all the construction workers' trucks parked there now.

I love this church. Last year, I notices the ajar roofing piece (upper right corner):

I wonder if they have bats in their belfry?

This is the view from my desk yesterday:

Pretty, huh? You can see a bit of the water (that's an arm of the ocean) and the scrap metal yard on the left.

And this is my messy desk:

It's organized chaos.

I went for my usual walk around 3 pm:

I saw this dude on his surfboard, paddling away. Don't fall in, dude! It's cold!

This trestle is a major walkway:

Sometimes I go over that, but usually, I go down this path:

It gets really overgrown in the summer. Around August, this is prime blackberry picking.

These are my stairs:

I do 4-6 sets up and down of these, Monday to Thursday. Killer!

And then I head back to work:

This path is usually packed with people and bikes.

On the walk home, I saw this pretty kitty:

Aw!

I'm not the only one who hikes up this long hill:

This feels very long at the end of the day!

Here I am:

Peace, man!

I love this house's yard:

I'd like to sit in that chair and watch the world go by, with flowers at my feet. I did pinch some of that lavender, though. Mmmm...love the smell.

This is a Garry Oak:

They're very gnarled. I like how this one is growing up the side of this Victorian-era house.

And here I am (really):

Breaking out these awesome ombre sandals for the first time this year!

The stuff:

Yeah, those are pretty much fabulous!

Cardigan (Kersh), cami (Esprit), skirt (Le Chateau), belt (Nygard), shoes (Qupid), ring (Club Monaco), earrings (don't remember).