Sunday, April 15, 2012

4 years here

In June George & I will have been living here for 4 years. A few days ago I crossed the Granville Street Bridge. It was a great a trip & I walked back too. Two days later we did it together, with my camera.  I knew George would like a view of our False Creek geography & the sense of flying the walk gives.

We walked up the Seymore Street exit ramp off the bridge. The Mark, a new high-rise, is going in there. I've been really fascinated by this building, & have a totally new respect for the skills of the workers and the complexity of the whole endeavor. Though I am sorry that the site had been a community garden surrounded with rosebushes-- all gone, of course. 
I love the man with the staircase cut & then close-by graffiti.
Old Bud has my vote, though I wish he [or his buddy] had put something I could actually read!!  I love the ghostly interior of the letters.  

Then came the view of the bridge from the off ramp. What a jungle of bridge structure!!

The cement factory, across from us was pretty fun to see from above. There are three barges that I couldn't figure out. Only two here. Pretty chaotic.


These are perhaps cement truck drivers. The trucks were being filled and leaving the yard.

At 7th & Hemlock we went to a coffee shop for lattes for our walk back.

I picked some cottonwood branches from a tree on the Hemlock Street ramp on our trip back. I am smelling them now as I write.  Wonderful aroma! Walking back I saw the Granville Island Brewery getting ready for a pick-up. Multiples!!


There was a sublime moment crossing the bridge going back....

These shots really show most of King's Landing, the (pretentious) name of our complex. (When did a King land here? Bah humbug!) The building on the left is a different condo.



And finally some very ordinary things: crack patterns very much like a ceramic glaze. And some numbers for that collection. So urban!

                                                            That's it for today.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

spring, newness & majik & random!

Three weeks back from Maui. The sun has started to shine. I don't think we'll have such a delayed spring as last year. I'm thankful for that! Today our little garden pavement was pressure-washed and I am beginning to think of getting some new plants for the pots with brown dirt in them.

Last week I went on a bit of a spree to find a carpet for the kitchen. I just hear all of you saying how unpractical, etc., etc. Kitchen? But you know... This was something I just wanted to do & I'm not up for Any Scolding! I did live in a house with a kitchen carpet!

When I met first George he had an awesome collection of carpets from Turkey mostly, & two from Iran. I had a very modest collection of my own, but a large historical connection to 'The Look'. This was 'The Look' of many of the Boston Homes I grew up with.

I wish I had taken photos of the carpets I brought home on a trial basis, because they were delicious, truly. But I can share images of stuff from our house. 

 




So, TA-DA, the new kitchen one.  Do I see scraps of food on it? TUT TUT! I DO!!  But those can be completely carpet-swept away, which is one of the methods for care.


                                            So moving on...time for tulips.

And 0rdinary things with majik about them.


                                                        That's plenty for today!