A Vincent Mounier Photography Blog
Our house, in the middle of our (snowy) street
November 28, 2006
Well maybe not the house, but the street. Here's more snow madness; the little bit of a hill (15th Avenue) made all the difference and there's much more snow on the groud then downtown, even though not nearly as much as in North Van which looked just like Saint Sauveur, QC in the dead of winter...
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Snow storm - Part 2
November 28, 2006
As promised, more pictures from the VanDusen Gardens. Still to come, the streets at night, Lynn Canyon and Grouse Mountain at sunset.
Snow storm
November 27, 2006
While in the Nation (sic) of Québec people are still wondering if Gilles Vigneault was right to say "Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver", Vancouver is being given a well deserved lesson and rather stunning proof that "Mon chemin ce n'est pas un chemin, c'est la neige."
I was so wrong yesterday writing about how the few flurries we'd had would be "as bad as it gets". It has now been snowing non-stop for 36 hours. The snow, which at f...
Snow
November 26, 2006
Tonight that's it. If there remained any doubt in some spaced out minds, it has been erased. Winter is upon Vancouver and as a proof, it is releasing its first snow on the city. It's wet snow, of course, and the flurries are barely able to leave their footprint on cold windshields, but it has been falling for a few hours now, making sure that it was noticed by all. Granted, that's about as bad as the weather will ever get out here. But an emotional barrier has been broke...
Blog Roll
November 21, 2006
"Winter, solitude’s bedfellow, is the smartest of all the seasons, simply because it knows that it doesn’t have to produce any heat." [From Matthew Good's blog]
"About 100 icebergs drifting northward from Antarctica have created a new tourist trade in New Zealand. One iceberg was even visible from the coast of the island nation - the first time that has happened since June of 1931." [From the Global Warming Blog and MSNBC]
And then there's thi...
Winter Sky in Vancouver
Up at 5:00 am this morning, I decided to head out to work early and develop a few pictures while having a coffee at Waves on Richards (they boil filtered water and the NTU hasn’t climbed back up above 18/19 NTU over the week-end, which is good enough for me.)
I walked down to the bus stop in complete darkness; the streets were still wet from a night down poor and reflected the car’s headlights in this precious time of the day the Spanish call "la madrugada". And there, ...
Siderodromophobia
November 18, 2006
I left early this morning, after literally falling out of bed. The dream I had been having before the fall was about skydiving and I left home with a big bruise on my forehead, having leaped out of the plane and immediately assumed the Delta position for maximum horizontal speed in freefall. My bedside table has a very sharp corner.I then followed a rather disorganized wandering pattern as I could not decide where I wanted to take pictures. The fact that I had forgotten ...
Vancouverites' Coffee Drinking Habbits Threatened
November 17, 2006
It hadn't come to my mind immediately, but we are facing a crisis unique in the city's history: our coffee addiction is seriously jeopardized! In today's update on the GVRD drinking water situation, the online article of the Province newspaper commits twenty per cent of its length to the impact of the water restrictions on the coffee business. Clearly, a most critical issue. ;-)
The good news, for others, is that the advisory has been lifted for all areas except Vancouv...
Drought on a Rainy Day
November 17, 2006
What happens when a city issues a warning that its tap water is no longer safe for drinking? People run out and buy bottled water. And what happens when that city has a population of 2.2 millions? Two millions run out and buy water (the rest were drunk or too lazy).
According to my sources, the advisory was made public some time this morning or early this afternoon. By 10:00 pm tonight, major grocery stores like Safeway were completely out of any possible kind of bottle...
Greater Vancouver Drinking Water Quality Deteriorating
November 16, 2006
The GVRD Medical Health Officers are advising that "the turbidity of the drinking water supplied to homes through the water distribution system has reached levels unprecedented in recent years. As turbidity increases, there is a potential for increased risk of gastro-intestinal illness. Until turbidity returns to acceptable levels residents may wish to use an alternate drinking water source (for example: bottled water) or boil their drinking water." Read the of...
Freighters
November 16, 2006
They came from across the seas, slowly but surely, through storms and high winds, and swells and tides. But now all is quiet as they await, half asleep, dozing off into a comfortable numbness, their journey accomplished, for now.
Global warming and obesity: the links revealed
November 14, 2006
Here's a quote from an enlightening Australian article linking obesity and global warming, which I originally found here:"...But we all stand to gain. Rising sea levels mean those with houses in the inner suburbs would suddenly find themselves the owners of lucrative beachfront property, while the extinction of all those penguins in the south pole would mean we'd never have to sit through another documentary about them, which could only be considered a good thing.&q...