The Bowring Park (link takes you to a pdf map and index of the park) duck pond, which has a fluctuating population of hundreds of mallard, black, pintail, and hybrid ducks, along with a few swans and half a New York city-block’s-worth of pigeons, currently also has a cormorant. They don’t usually hang out in…
Category: animals
Like a cat in the sun…
… is how I’d love to spend today. Sitting and spinning and doing some sketches for pieces. Alas, it’s to be a morning of meetings followed by a myriad of errands. With any luck there will be a fleeting burst of sunlight after the meetings and I’ll have a chance to grab a few photos…
Of turtles and sheep
You may (or may not) recall the sheep: There are six. They have attitude. They were made by Maaike Charron of Blue Dragon Clay. I found them at the local Craft Council Seconds Sale and brought them home to live with us. They are also quite curious and charismatic sheep and they have wormed their…
Flat Katherine visits the Vancouver Aquarium (lots of photos & videos)
Well, actually, she swung by the hospital to visit her little cousin first: Then we toodled on over to the Vancouver Aquarium. The person we were to have met up with wasn’t around (unfortunately she had an unexpected appointment) so we wandered through the exhibits and gawked at everything we saw. The birds in the…
Burnaby Lake with Flat Katherine
Today Flat Katherine and I went geocaching around Burnaby Lake. Along the way, Flat Katherine stopped to play with the fishies on the fence. In Burnaby, the chain link fences of parks and playgrounds are often decorated with fish, birds, people playing and the like. It’s a very neat art project and makes the playgrounds…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 