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Now the rain is back our environmentally-minded City Hall might be catching up on some laundry but more likely this display has to do with Canada's Olympic team at Sochi. If so, shouldn't one of them be a rainbow flag? Click the image to see a larger static image.

Vancouver's 1936 Art Deco-style City Hall is on the right, peeking out from behind the landscaping which is nearly as monumental as the 12-storey tower it's meant to frame. In the upper left corner is the Moon  which pretty much sticks around all day now. Below is a scrappy closeup of the wonderful neon clock -- there's one on each of the four sides! Click the images to enlarge.

My route to a bottle depot took me by the 1930s-era, Art Moderne, Vancouver City Hall, at Cambie Street, and 12th Avenue. The old Hall looks especially good beside duller, contemporary architecture, not the least because it's been recently power washed from top to bottom. It was a kind of public works project when it was built at the height of the Great Depression, but that's a tale for another post. Today, as I rode past the main entrance (illegally, on the sidewalk!), I saw two guys trying to wrestle a chunk of skyline into their hatchback.