Vancouver

[squirmelia]

Skyscrapers compete with mountains.

Vancouver Art Gallery currently has an Emily Carr exhibition on, with beautiful paintings of vivid (and sometimes creepy) totem poles and swirling green forests where the undergrowth laps at the trees like waves. Emily Carr often visited and painted First Nations villages, sometimes with her sister and I quite liked this description: "Sister purchased a bird of melancholy mien, so resembling herself she had difficulty in restraining her emotions".

There was also a Paint exhibition on, so bright and neon and full of geometrical shapes and patterns, which seemed like such a contrast to the dark and brooding world Emily Carr sometimes painted, but it was still her trees that I found the dreamiest.

After visiting the gallery, we headed for Stanley Park, to see the Hollow Tree, which is mentioned in City of Glass: "Vancouver is perhaps the only city in the world where criminals might strap moose antlers to the hood of a stolen car and park it inside a 1,500-year-old hollow tree."

That was the day, I also ate a latke in Desert and then saw the play of Life After God.

Comments

[kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com]

That's a great photo!

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was taken from a SeaBus, on about the only day in Vancouver that had blue sky while I was there.

[laslandes.livejournal.com]

Wow, agreed, that's a great pic!

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Vancouver was a great place.

[turnedoffneon.livejournal.com]

how was the play? as a bunch of little stories it seems a strange book to adapt.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

It was actually the story which starts with a group of friends floating in a swimming pool, but with some changes. I don't have my copy of Life After God right now, but shall try to write some kind of description of the play at some point soon.

did you take that picture??

[bickichick.livejournal.com]

if so- B-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l! photo

just spectacular
so Vancouver.

you have quite an eye for photos.

Re: did you take that picture??

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I did indeed take the photo. Would love to go back to Vancouver sometime when there is better weather and take more photos. :)

Re: did you take that picture??

[olulabelle.livejournal.com]

I like it too and you do have a good photo eye.

You travel a lot, well you seem to, anyway. Do you travel a lot? You're always writing about lovely places.

Re: did you take that picture??

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I do tend to get a bit bored of being in Southampton and travel to random places as something to do, I admit. This may change when my young person's railcard runs out!

Re: did you take that picture??

[clare42]

If you ever fancy doing this, we can now offer a sofabed! Comes with free 6am wake-ups when the toddler arises, mind, as it isn't in a spare room so much as our lounge...

[clarehooper.livejournal.com]

Utterly unrelated, but - did you ever create an LJ feed of the darksidechaplaincy blog?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's at dschaplaincy.

[clarehooper.livejournal.com]

Ace, thanks!

[solitarywalker.livejournal.com]

i took a picture of myself in front of the hollow tree. (Which i found accidentally.)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Cool! I didn't take any photos of the hollow tree, since it was very cold and snowing the day we went there. Would like to see your photo though!