I’m walking slowly this year. So far at least. Down the rail trail near my house. The dog wants to walk faster. Or she wants to stop altogether. She’s found something interesting along the way.
The mountains are all around. The tops dusted with snow. No travel for a while yet. So I’m digging through my photos from a year ago.
Silas had an anthropology conference in Vancouver, so I tagged along. While they attended the conference, I wandered around the city. I walked across Stanley Park. Around the sea wall. Watching the sea planes take off and land. A light whine against the busy city and the gulls’ cries.
It was lush, even in winter. The leaves had fallen but the greens were still vivid.
I found a good perch on the sea wall and watched them land, gas up on the floating station, and dock. Mountains and the ocean, together, this is the place for me.
all photographs by me, Becca Grady.