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This was yesterday, in the late afternoon, at 10th Avenue, and Cambie Street. A city road crew has just wrapped up work on the East corner. I'm about five minutes, and three blocks away from running into another city road crew, making my total for the day five. The view North is pretty spectacular (yawn). Vancouver's a bit like a 24-hour casino, with nature as a complimentary floor show to bring in the rubes tourists. locals take it too much for granted. Like maybe it would be good for nature to withhold it's services once in a while, to force us to see what's right in front of our eyes; remember to treasure it, and take care of it. Perhaps people who live in postcards never concern themselves with who's paying the postage. Click the image to enlarge it.

Apropos of the headline, Cambie Street is named for Henry John Cambie (1836-1928), an Irish-born Canadian surveyor, and civil engineer, best remembered for his important role with the CPR (Canadian Pacific Railroad) in bringing the country's transcontinental railroad to completion at it's Vancouver terminus. There are no train tracks near Cambie St. that I've ever seen. Arbutus Street, which is about three kilometres West, and closely paralleled by train tracks, is named after a tree.