A Girl's Reflections

It is going to be a long winter. I am not sure when the transition happened, did we even have summer? Where did the long days of summer go?

The sun sets early these days it gets dark before 5pm. Plus it seems the cold weather crept up on me.

I have been looking at summer pictures hoping by some miracle I will be transported back to August.

I saw my very first inuksuk when we first moved to Vancouver in 2002. I understand the word means “to act in the capacity of a human”

Historically they are stone figures built by the Inuit people. An inuksuk was used as the emblem of Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and the one pictured below was built in Whistler BC for the winter Olympics.

I have often asked my parents – “which one of us is your favorite child” and they will often say we are all a favorite. However, now that we are older I think I can tell who is which parent’s favorite.

Or so I thought.

Last month while visiting Paris, I found myself falling in love with the city. It crept up on me, I am not really sure how it happened but I fell in love. I left sick about it, I love Vancouver and I still do but I also love Paris. I felt like I was cheating on my beloved Vancouver.

What? Did I compare a parent’s love for their child with my silly girlish love for two cities?

I took a walk over Cambie Bridge, it connects downtown Vancouver peninsula to False Creek. I walked the western side of the bridge and the views as usual were breath taking.

Vancouver mon amour, Je t’aime

Today’s scenes are from the Stanley Park section of the seawall, which is 8.8km long.

Construction of the seawall began in Stanley Park in 1917 with much of its incremental progress was overseen by Park Board master stone mason James Cunningham from the late 1920s until his retirement some 35 years later.

The truth is that many full and part-time staffers, along with relief workers in the ‘dirty thirties’ and ‘defaulters’ serving punishment time, put back-breaking hours into a project originally conceived to hold back erosion.

On September 21, 1980 the entire seawall loop around Stanley Park was declared officially completed with the final paving between Third Beach and Second Beach. Since 1980 the seawall has been extended outside of Stanley Park.

I spend lots of time at this section of the seawall, my siblings and I walked it on our third official day in Vancouver. It was love at first step…