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Ten minutes after Noon today I was up at Cambie Street and King Edward Avenue. King Ed is a major east-west traffic aterial. I don't know how far it goes eastward, but in the west it ends at the far edge of the Dunbar-Southlands neighbourhood, at a cross street called Crown (oh... now I get it). On the west side of Crown is the dark, impenetrable forest of the University Endownment Lands -- I've heard terrible stories of what goes on there. Where was I?

Oh. I was in the alley on the east side of Cambie, making the turn into the north lane of King Ed. A cyclist coming out of that lane had told me to expect two big garbage bags of bottles. I found the bags: construction waste -- but it's the the thought that counts.

A street light on during the day. How bright is that?

The other thing I saw in that lane was a pair of street lights which were still hard at work, when they should have been off for the day. A rare opportunity to photograph the light elements without flaring out the image. As I was snapping pictures, a woman was backing her car out a garage. When she got out of the car to close her garage door I asked her if both lights always stayed on.

She squinted up at them, and as if addressing the street lights, explained that sometimes they did and sometimes they didn't. Then she looked right at me, standing beside my bicycle and bike trailer which was obviously loaded with bottles. She asked me if I was with city hall.

I told her I wasn't, but it was an effort. Click the images to enlarge them.