21-8-29

 I'm not sure why these sorts of landscapes appeal to me so much. Part of it is probably context. This doesn't look like Vancouver. No mountains. No ocean. The curbs are gravel. Those houses are all about $1.5 million but you'd never guess that from this picture. There are a lot of disconnects in this photograph when you know where it was taken. This was taken around Slocan and 22nd Ave in Vancouver. www.rew.ca is where you'll see how much houses are worth here. I'd link a listing but they change so quickly as things sell. 

There's something about those trees too. Like they are accidents. Or sad reminders that all this was forest once. I don't think they are natural. I suspect as the land was cleared to build houses someone thought it good to plant some trees and while most of them have probably been taken out by strong winds or impatient owners or from just being old and precarious, these two stragglers persist. 

21-8-28

 Fence building with the kid. There are worse ways to spend the day. Not many better. 

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 The stereo I just put in my car has an audio in jack. This old piece of technology still works but doesn't have Bluetooth. I have the cable I need to connect this to that. Old car. Old technology. 

21-8-25

 Someone is up to something. I'm intrigued. 

21-8-24

 I found this strange artifact on the street. I'm not sure what it is, or where it came from. The plug type is familiar; contemporary even, but the lump it's attached to seems to be from a completely different time. I left it there. Someone has written their name on it. I will assume they will be back for it. 

21-8-23

 Selling this. I've owned a Pathfinder in one form or another for 8 or 9 years now. The first one was green with way too many miles on it for it to run as smoothly as it did. I broke it driving through the Mojave Desert. The front strut ripped through the wheel well on a particularly rough stretch of road. I drove it some 2200kms or more home checking the rip in the wheel well every time I added gas. 

The first one was so reliable and cheap to run I bought another one. This one. But it's kind of cursed. It was a lemon from day one with a habit of drinking oil. I say that it was a lemon but that's the only problem it has and I just got used to adding oil every time I got gas. Recently the brakes went soft so a master cylinder is in order. Not bad for four years of ownership if that's all that went wrong with it. But fixing brakes on a car that drinks oil isn't on my agenda so I'll sell it or scrap it. 

There's a new car. There might be a picture of it here one day. Maybe not. It's even older than the Pathfinder, but with less kilometers on it. 

There's nothing special about this picture. It's just where I was today. Nothing more. Nothing less. 

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21-8-21

 Colour photographs that look like black and white photographs.

21-8-20

The kid helped me remove a vine. And we dug post holes for a new fence across the back of the yard. 
 

21-8-19

 Skipped a day. I was due a skipped day. So I skipped a day.

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 7 stories below grade. Looks like there's room for 10 stories total below grade. It's a metaphor for....something.

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 This one makes me happy. 

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 I could take a thousand photographs of these light bulbs. I may have taken a thousand photographs of these light bulbs.

21-8-7

 Rain came. It was the first time it's rained in Vancouver in over 50 days. And then a record was set for the amount of rain that fell in a single day on this day in history, or as much of it as we know about. 

21-8-6

 Rain is coming.

21-8-5

 Clouds. It hasn't rained in Vancouver in 50 days or more. The clouds are a welcome sight. It's supposed to rain tonight. And a little more over the weekend. 

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21-8-3

 I took a picture of a truck. 

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