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dawson city
July 2008 
from London to Vancouver
Posted on Jan 13th, 2008
by 
geognosy
geognosy
My last pictures in Dawson were taken at Jack London square. This was just down the street from where I was living, but I never took any pictures there until my last morning. These are caribou antlers on a reconstructed food cache, a little box on stilts (where food would be stored, away from your cabin, and hopefully secure against animals).
Vancouver is green and springlike. It feels strange to walk without gloves and without the camera. People who drive SUV's do not care about pedestrians. Let me go further: people who drive SUV's, a kind of urban tank, do not care about anything except the armour which they pretend keeps them safe from the world. This is a city where pedestrians in crosswalks are mowed down by impatient drivers. I'm already missing the small town where you can walk down the middle of the street, and need to watch out for tobogganing children more than traffic.
Vancouver is green and springlike. It feels strange to walk without gloves and without the camera. People who drive SUV's do not care about pedestrians. Let me go further: people who drive SUV's, a kind of urban tank, do not care about anything except the armour which they pretend keeps them safe from the world. This is a city where pedestrians in crosswalks are mowed down by impatient drivers. I'm already missing the small town where you can walk down the middle of the street, and need to watch out for tobogganing children more than traffic.
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Oh but run around with your camera there! Go over to the North Shore and Mt Seymour and Deep Cove from the harbour there it looks like those old Chinese paintings with the steep mountains and mist and along the drizzly dark beaches and rusted barges and down along East Hastings Street where the people look like the decay around them cameleons.
And still there will be the missing of that quiet carless snowy place.
What are you seeing now? I miss your posts.
I am a lazy blog poster, so it's out of order for me to complain about this, but still.
Where are you now?