I know Vancouver isn’t perfect, and there are things that annoy me, but I love it regardless. Of all the places I’ve lived, Vancouver is the only one that really feels like home to me.
photos by me
Amy and the Pinata
Amy and the Pinata, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Dave and Amy are back in Vancouver for the long weekend. Among other things, it’s the general vicinity of Amy’s thirtieth birthday, so a Pinata was purchased and suitably dealt with. This seems to becoming a bit of a local tradition. I had a pinata…
An Evening with Cat Power
She stopped in the middle of songs to complain about the sound or take cigarette breaks, she forgot the words to some of her own songs, and one time just walked off stage (she came back). All part of the Cat Power experience, and when you can sing like that, with such an achingly beautiful voice, I guess people will put up with a lot of eccentricities.
Oh, The Places I’ve Been
Okay, I’ve been back less than two weeks and I’m almost done uploading pictures from my visit to New Zealand. It really was an amazing trip.This is the route I took, starting in Dunedin, and ending in Auckland 16 days later.
pictures, pictures, pictures!
It was quite a bit of work whittling down the hundreds I took to a still-volumous subset! And I have several panorama to post as well, should I manage to get some stitching software up and running.Links to photoset, slideshow.