A GIRL'S REFLECTIONS

Winter this year has been warm and rainy. The lack of sunlight and super short days depresses me a little.

However, once in a while we get a break in the rain.
Then Vancouver becomes magical again.

My weekend was lovely, even though I had no access to the web. It is a few days to Christmas and I plan on shopping every evening this week. This week is when I start my Christmas shopping.

This Vancouver in a day shopping video features all the places I will be visiting.

The first time I came upon the (Raindrop) art installment, I did not see a rain drop. What I saw was a giant pin. An instrument for bloodletting, since art is subjective this installment was being interrupted by my need to check my blood sugar.

The Raindrop is a public art sculpture, which sits just below the roof deck at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Designed by INGES IDEE, a group of four German artists who collaborates to create site-specific art projects.

It is a 65-foot (19m), slender sculpture in the form of an elegant, abstracted rain droplet; it is a visual and conceptual compliment to both the surrounding landscape and one of the greenest convention centers in the world.

The Vancouver Olympic Cauldron is located on Jack Poole Plaza, adjacent to the Vancouver Convention Centre.

The plaza is named after Jack Poole, who was the head of the VANOC bid committee responsible for bringing the 2010 Winter Olympic to Vancouver, Canada. He died of pancreatic cancer on October 23, 2009, hours after the Olympic Flame was lit at the beginning of the 2010 Olympics torch relay

The distinctive glassy (icy) structure is now a permanent fixture and has been lit a few times since the closing ceremony of the 2010 Olympic Winter Olympic.