It's been a really long time since I posted

Oh my!!  Where to begin? 

I've had a travel-rash: Hawaii, the Okanagan, Boulder &Albuquerque & Santa Fe in New Mexico followed by a quick visit to Olympia.
And now I'm close to going to NYC for my 55th college reunion & DC for George's 4th grandson to graduate from high school.

All of this running around was predicated on various life events: the need to have a break after Leslie Alexander's death at the New Year, another trip to the Okanagan for wines, & then the all-important family catch-ups and events in various places.

Photos!!  I take, I take, I take.  And afterwards I edit, edit, & delete!
I am thinking about my mother who took so many photos in her final years. Gack!!  I tossed hundreds of hers after she died, though I kept a few stellar ones.  I am winnowing. I'm dumping photos.  AND it's really interesting to look at the shift in me about what it is that I think that I need.  My perspective is changing.

I am going to do my first-in-a-long-while post about what is going on at Vancouver House, the to-be 52-story "house" in my immediate neighbourhood.  I will be able to see this from my apartment.

A year ago in Mar19, 2016, when the huge concrete pour happened to anchor this building. Since then, 17 floors, 7 below zero, & 10 above, the enormous high-rise grows.

I am thinking a lot about "condo-creation & selling" in Vancouver.
This is our new "cash crop", a new "resource" to sell off to the world, not unlike fish, minerals & lumber in days before.

So, I am not entirely sanguine with all of these changes, as many old time Vancouverites aren't.

Under the Granville Street Bridge there has been a new sewer work. The sewer lines are running to the east side of Granville Street where the 4th dig for this project is happening.

The zig zag hypotenueuse of the triangular base of the 52 story building is finally clear. That shape will gradually open out into a rectangle. The northern pointy end will flatten!

The north end of the site is looking so different.

Walking across the Granville Street Bridge & looking north the Vancouver House takes shape & is now a clear presence.

Continual surveying marks are happening, including one just like this one on a lamppost.

This below is the the excavation for another 6 story amenity building that will link up with the 52-story building for underground parking. The stabilizing tubes are on their 2nd use.

                                                           That's it for now.