June 18 25
From Vancouver, to Burnaby
Next morning the tips of the mountains were hidden by cloud, and I watched as the cloud very slowly descended down the mountainside until it had covered the mountain completely and then it felt smug. It was there but I couldn’t see it at all, it was if Vancouver was just this flat piece of land and there were no Rocky Mountains at all. And then we had a little rain, not much. After that it was time to explore so we did. But locally not far. We just walked up the street past many beautiful new white apartment blocks, they stood side by side and definitely faced the mountains, although there were mountains in many directions in this city. In the garden were the most beautiful big roses and lavender thriving in the climate.
We found the park in Burnaby and the city library which although unprepossessing from outside was full of wonderful magazines and books and huge tall windows that ran through several floors. People were sitting reading in the calm of those windows. It exuded that library peace and I thought I can work in here and think in here. There were all the magazines that I hadn’t read for years because they aren’t available in the UK.
Then outside the library was the Burnaby Park which had lovely seating and flowerbeds with miniature fountains running beside them all in tandem, coming up and flowing back town in a rhythm. Flowers with water. Out from this we found the next big street and delved into the depths of Metrotown, the biggest shopping mall anywhere. I t was on three separate floors with one floor not matching the one below. It was laid out not according to a street plan and would branch into several lanes radiating from a central point and then continue on not according to any logic. There seemed to be no way to know where you were.
The way to emerge was to follow signs to the skytrain and that would lead out of the mall. But deep inside its depths there was indeed a proper juice bar. With a wonderful collection of juices and people ready to serve you juice of any kind at your timing. They seemed to make it from scratch too. We enjoyed kale, mango and then wheatgrass juice.
Lovely.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7796332.Lynne_Pearl
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thiel-Sea-Journeys-Lynne-Pearl-ebook/dp/B0DGLV3BJX
Art by Cath Whitehead ‘Dream Garden’