Christmas Decorations

I hope that lots of you are hav­ing an ex­cel­lent Christ­mas; I am. Here’s an il­lus­trat­ed card fea­tur­ing Van­cou­ver Christ­mas vi­su­al­s.

We took our vis­it­ing Prairie rel­a­tives for a wa­ter­front Christmas-eve walk, and it struck me that putting Christ­mas lights on barbed-wire looks dystopi­an by day, but is prob­a­bly pret­ty at night.

Just around the cor­ner was a lit­tle nau­ti­cal struc­ture, and a dinghy in Christ­mas col­ors.

Then Christ­mas came, and here’s a bit of orgy-of-materialism hang­over.

Christ­mas day had the on­ly sun of the week so be­tween presents and turkey we took a stroll in a lo­cal hill­top park. A cou­ple of guys had set up with pails of soapy wa­ter and that sticks-and-twine rig so you can blow huge bub­bles, twist­ing and sparkling in the sum­mer sun, let­ting all the kid passers-by take a turn. That’s what I call Christ­mas spir­it.

Near­by they were prac­tic­ing Tai Chi.

and what with the side­ways sol­stice sun through the patchy cloud­s, the city was one great big fes­tive dec­o­ra­tion.

Best of the sea­son to you and yours!