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This is about 7:30 a.m., pointing west, down a back alley I usually go through twice a day -- look how tidy it is!

All back alleys in Vancouver are this clean (unless they're not). This alley is in the process of being washed by the rain and having some of its dumpsters emptied -- you can just make out the caution lights on the back of a garbage truck on the west side of Alder Street at the far end of the lane where it doglegs north rather than continuing straight on to intersect with Granville Street.

On the left is a brightly-lit building's gated parking enclosure containing garbage and cardboard dumpsters as well as a set of blue city recycling bins, which are full, darn it! On the right you can see the brown dumpster tucked into its un-gated alcove. Right beside it (see below), is another alcove for the recycling bins. Both buildings have the same building manager.

Each of the accessible dumpsters, from the brown one down to the end of the alley -- seven in all -- is wide open -- again, look how tidy it is! Welcome to Fairview.