November

I haven't really used my good camera that much lately. My phone on the other hand? I use it almost daily to take photos!

 Had to wear my Obama shirt on American election day. Someday, I'll be passionate enough about the politics here to wear a candidate's face on my shirt..

 Went to Spark and Mom camp on the sunshine coast. The rocks are so pretty :)

 I'm not sure what happened here, but there is no filter on this photo. That's just how it came out. Pretty funky!

 The new bridge.

 So true, tea bag. So true.

 Yummy food-cart brunch with R's fam this morning. Highly recommended if you're down near Stadium Skytrain station!

 In the Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

 Big contrast between the serenity of the garden with the big towers.

 A pretty earl grey donut from Cartems donuterie at Hastings/Carroll.

View from the 9th floor of the Sandman.

Life Update

...And another life update! I haven't taken many photos lately, so here's some iphone updates.

This northern flicker found our bird feeder.. and seemed quite content in it!

 Went for a hike on the North Shore. Saw some gorgeous trees. Thanked someone for living in this beautiful province.

 Same hike. Wow, trees really do grow where light is..

 Fall in Vancouver, as short as it is, is incredibly wonderful.

 True statement.

 On a walk with R.. before the downpour started.

Same walk. Mushrooms! Everywhere. Oh, and gorgeous leaves, and rain, and everything else this city has to offer.

Life update!

It's been a while since I've updated, so here's some snapshots of life from my phone.

 Dinner in Pitlochry, Scotland. So yummy!

 Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland

 Milk and cookies; Gatwick, England

 Orange something, Belfast, Northern Ireland

 Joffre Lakes, BC, Canada! ;)

 Upper Joffre Lake

 Fall in the Peace

 More fall in the Peace.

 A relaxing afternoon.. can anyone guess the book?

 BC Legislature, Victoria

 Victoria

Yummy side dish to Thanksgiving dinner.

European Highlights

I'm a bit too lazy to write a journalistic-style post of our Europe trip, so instead here are some of my favourite photos.

 Looking through the cannon thingy at Edinburgh Castle.

 Flower & bee. They're everywhere :)

 Scotland - heading towards the Highlands.

 Scottish Highlands.

 Part of Queen's University, Belfast.

 More of Queen's.

 Gorgeous (and weird) heather-grass-gorse-dunes in N.Ireland.

 Same as above. These were near Newcastle.

 And more. With the Mourne Mountains in the background.

 Ditto..

Heather and barbed wire. I feel like this sort of symbolizes N. Ireland.. beautiful, a bit of conflict and yet it somehow survives together..

There are more photos, but I'll save that for another night. For now, 6am is looming.

Lynn Valley

I suppose this should go into my other blog, under the Hike heading. But.. it wasn't really a hike, so too bad. I did have a chance to play with my camera though, so here's some shots from last Sunday.

 I love that the kind of wonky exposure in this photo makes it look black and white.

 And with a better exposure.

 Huge, ancient stumps.

 Gorgeous coastal forest!!

 Lynn Creek.

 Lynn Creek.

Shoes!

Life Update

Here's a few photos from the last week:

 Food on a hike..

More food.. :)

 Whitecaps FC game (vs FC Dallas).

 Roof at BC Place.

 Outside of BC Place

 More outside of BC Place

 BC Place

 Science World (or Telus World of Science) at night.

End of the 5k Color Me Rad.