We’re moved now. Well partially at least. We looked a place back in early December when we around. We sealed the deal within days of looking at the first apartment, so terrific it was. Heritage building, huge windows, lots of space, wood floors, and eventually a cat. But we can’t move in until January 1st, thus all our stuff is packed into someone elses apartment, and we get to move AGAIN. But the hard part was loading up our friends small pickup and getting it all over the coquihalla.

So now we are living in Vernon, and the next phase of our lives starts. I’ve undertaken a lot of projects too, maybe too many, but we’ll see what gets weeded out. As usual, here’s an installment of photos taken since last time…

“”My big worry, is that we as a nation, if we start having to be obligated to other countries … Like, in this conference they’re going to try to take our money and send it to third world countries, because of since we spend so much oil, and these other countries have suffered, then we’re going to give our money to these third world countries.”"
Chuck Norris

Long Exposure MADNESS!!!

Late the other night I went for a late walkabout to take some pictures of my soon to be former neighborhood. The sky was amazing this night, and forms the focus or at least the dramatic backdrop to most of these shots. I developed these captures with a surreal touch, to play off the beautiful purples and oranges and blues in the sky, along with the distorted perspective of this lens.

And so ends my last couple weeks of living in Vancouver full time.  Over the next two or three weeks we’ll be visiting Vernon, and Victoria (again in that order, for the second time in six weeks) then moving!  Things are exciting!  I’ve registered for classes!

Some photos from a couple strolls around Van in the last week:

more teachers, more books.

Today is my last day of work at JJ Bean, my last day making espressi and cappuccini for the masses. Go look at pictures of coffee.

Vernon

Oh, and before we went to Victoria we went to Vernon for a few days! Be sure to scroll to the next post down for pictures from the Victoria part of the trip.

Victoria

We try to hit up Victoria a few times every year, as we have several friends living there, and it’s just a fun place to spend a week or so. We’ll be heading back in a couple weeks even. You may infer from these pictures that we went for coffee alot. We did. Some terrific shops were mere blocks from pretty much anywhere we found ourselves, and I indulged in way too much espresso and whatnot. I also managed to get off a few very nice long exposures of an old buidling on the waterfront. Mind you without a tripod I was a bit limited in my composition options.