20-12-29

 And then her house was scraped away from the planet. Gone. No more. 

I guess that's what they call a metaphor.

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20-12-27

 I remember shoveling her walk when she was 92 or so. Never knew her name. One day she was dead and I shoveled her walk not knowing she had died. The asbestos drywall has been removed. The house will be removed soon enough, too. 

20-12-26

 "Photographs create the beautiful and – over generations of picture-taking – use it up". Thus, "the image-surfeited are likely to find sunsets corny; they now look, alas, too much like photographs". - Susan Sontag

20-12-25

 Does this count as time lapse photography? 

20-12-24

 Not a white Christmas. But white-ish? Got cold enough anyway.

20-12-23

 Self portrait.

20-12-22

 The best Christmas presents are home-made. And not tennis bracelets.

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20-12-20

 Some million years ago I taught my kid how to jump in puddles in this spot. Reflections... Literally and figuratively....

Same spot. 2008.

20-12-19

 nearly 50 years later and some wires are sorted by cable ties. This photo doesn't do the effort justice. But it's all I've got for today. 

20-12-18

 A grounding element. Otherwise it might have appeared as a simple greyscale image. Vancouver feels like a greyscale image these days. And so a metaphor. Or something like that. 

20-12-17

This was the only photograph I took today.
 

20-12-16

 I'm not collecting typewriters. But maybe I should.

20-12-15

 Hunting and foraging.

20-12-14

 I didn't take a photograph today. Pandemic. Politics. Weather. It's all so heavy. It's sometimes hard to find inspiration. I sometimes forget to take a photograph but find something on my phone. I found this on my phone for today. It's not a photograph that I took, but it's a screen capture I took. Does that count? No, probably not, and I won't do it again. But I thought it important to share this at a time when so much seem so bleak. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the future of politics in the United States, or at least I hope she is. What an incredible, intelligent person. 

A pandemic vaccine has arrived. Trump has been voted out of office. The days are getting shorter still, and will for another week, but there's still light some days. This morning it was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shining that light. She gives me hope, and, wow, do I respect her. 

20-12-13

 Stories. You sometimes find then in the places you least expect. And I'm grateful for that. 

20-12-12

 A short drive from Vancouver, it felt good to get out of town. Jone's Lake. It's manmade, and powers a BC Hyrdo generator. I would have thought that by this time of year there would be less water in the reservoir and more of the stumps would be visible, though I guess we've had some good rain. When the water is low, there are way more stumps showing. 

Like many of us, covid has me feeling a bit stir crazy. Google tells me where I've been all year, and it's not been far from home. The first of the vaccines are arriving in Canada today, or yesterday, or tomorrow, and the light at the end of this miserable tunnel is getting brighter. Not a moment too soon. 

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20-12-10

 He's found the amplifier. It's usually on. And it gives off some heat. It can't be comfortable but the vantage point is good and it's warm up there. I'll need to get a cover for it now to keep the cat fur out of it. 

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 Oldsmobile. 

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20-12-1

 5 sandwich boards. 2 businesses. 

20-11-30

 1996. I took a picture of this sign the first time I lived in Vancouver. Not sure why. It's old? It's old. It was old then. It's older now. And I took another picture of it. I'm sure it's been on here before, this blog; many photos are making third and fourth (tenth?) appearances. 

20-11-29

 Found in a dumpster. It's a cheaper 4130 Cromoly, but forged dropouts and an mostly 105 7spd downtube shiftered group with a Campagnolo thread on rear hub and a Shimano freewheel on it. I had to find a front wheel for it. The bars are too narrow, and the stem a bit short, and finding a replacement might be a bit of a challenge since it's all obsolete. 

But it rides like a dream. 

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 *see yesterday's post about running out of photographs in this city. 

20-11-18

 I know I've taken this photograph before. I may take it again? Probably. Sometimes in Vancouver it feels like I'm running out of things to take photographs of. Sometimes after doing this Daily Image for roughly 13 years it feels like I'm running out of photographs. 

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20-11-16

 I'm a terrible guitar player. And yet I still play guitar.

20-11-15

 Million dollar home in Vancouver. Maybe. 

20-11-14

 Renovation by fire. Well, maybe not in this case. The restaurant next door was apparently set on fire by a disgruntled ex-employee though the disgruntlement of the ex-employee was apparently justified. The restaurant owner was a bit of a dick. Just happens that this is the fifth or sixth fire on and around this block in the last 10 years and each time a fancy new condo goes up on the site. 

20-11-13