all saints day, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. It’s been a grey and drizzly post-Halloween in Vancouver.
photos by me
The Parade of Lost Souls
ghoulish barker, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Ah, the Parade of Lost Souls, an annual Vancouver tradition. As is my attempting to take photos of it with a camera never really meant for low-light situations. photoset
Mogwai at the Commodore
Mogwai at the Commodore, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Saw Mogwai last night, a band I’ve liked a lot since I first heard them on a Matador compilation in the mid-1990s. They put on a pretty good show, but as with their albums, it’s mindblowingly cool at first, and then you just kind of…
A Public Servics ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
A PUBLIC SERVICS ANNOUNCEMENT!!!, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. These appeared in my neighbourhood Monday morning, stuck to pretty much every available surface. Looks like the REPENT SINNER guy has competition. (Close-up of the poster here.)
The Sand Brochus (+ one Sand Mahoney)
sand people, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. I spent most of the past week with the family at Chesterman Beach, on Vancouver Island’s beautiful west coast. Oddly, while the last time I was there was the middle of last winter, the weather didn’t seem to have changed — there were just a few more…