I remember as a child being amazed to learn that glass is melted sand and that our windows and mirrors behave as a liquid. With the milleniums, they will slowly melt and return to the earth. I look up on #walkwednesday to my city of tall modern buildings and realize above my head is a river of slow flowing sand. Vancouver and its talented architects have hefted a stream of glass to the sky. Pretty cool and sci-fi when you think abou it.

Vancouver is a city that honors the natural surrounds. On the ground we endevour to incorporate the bounty of our forests.

It is salmon berry season. This wild fruit spans the warm end of the color spectrum, from red to yellow depending on light, water, ripeness, and soil. They have a delcious naturally sweet flavor, sometimes a little sour, sometimes a little bitter. I immortalized these two in digital before I ate them. Okay, before my son ate them. He knows when the going is good and with camera in hand, momma is not fast enough.

I will leave you with flowers from a florist's curb-side display. Not sure of their name but they remind me of begonias. Maybe they are related.