The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: Vancouver

  • Exploring the Vancouver Art Gallery

    A few days ago I did a blog entry entitled “Picasso’s Women” about the Picasso exhibit that’s currently at the Vancouver Art Gallery. As amazing as that exhibit was, there was even more to see. I must confess that I’m partial to modern art. I like art that makes you think, or makes you laugh.…

  • Exploring Vancouver: The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

    In an oft overlooked corner of Chinatown in Vancouver, Canada, on the other side of an unassuming moon gate, lies an oasis of beauty and tranquility. The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is the first garden of its type outside of China. It’s based on a traditional Ming Dynasty scholar’s garden, and it is…

  • Picasso’s Women

    I absolutely love Vancouver, Canada! I had the pleasure of visiting a dear friend there recently, and one of the things we did was go to the Vancouver Art Gallery to check out an exhibition called “Picasso: The Artist and His Muses”. This shined a whole new light on Picasso for me, because the show…

  • Exploring Vancouver: Fireworks without the Patriotism

    I absolutely love fireworks. I think of it as art, writ large. Light is the paint and the sky is the canvas. It’s the purest form of joyously explosive creativity. That’s why the 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays here in the US. So when I heard of the annual Celebration of…

  • Well Known… But Not.

    Many years ago I worked the graveyard shift, and I was in a relationship that was making me really unhappy. I felt lonely and isolated. Then I discovered the virtual world of Second Life. Second Life may have saved my first life, or at the very least my sanity. It’s not a game like World…

  • Waking Up in Vancouver

    It’s usually kind of weird waking up in a strange place, but oddly, I felt right at home in my friend’s apartment in Vancouver. He made me feel quite welcome, even making sure to hang a curtain in my alcove to give me privacy, and getting new towels for the bathroom. It was a nice…

  • Vancouver Not Exactly According to Plan

    I just got back from my first ever visit to Vancouver. What a fantastic time I had! I was meeting up with a friend (more on him in another blog entry) and I figured he’d be more comfortable with a specific game plan, so I read my guidebook from cover to cover, and set out…

  • Road Tripping

    I just got back from a trip to Vancouver. I’ll be writing quite a bit about that, I’m sure. But right now I’m writing about road trips in general. I absolutely love to travel. It’s my reason for being. Seeing things I’ve never seen and doing things I’ve never done just seems to feed my…