Unassuming Masquabeak Park

Sunday. Clouds, clouds and more clouds. It was a busy sky this morning overhead. I think the battle between the sun and the clouds is going last all day. I think the clouds will come out on top this time and bring rain late tonight or early tomorrow morning. Hey, the weather network can make predictions, so can I.

This week a ginormous tree-trimming truck parked below my apartment window for the neighbours I see out that window. I feared another 'big one' was coming down, but I was relieved to see they only had a couple of their trees and shrubs trimmed. IMHO, there are way too many 'urbanites' today that are 'just-chop-it-down' thinkers. But that didn't happen this time so there's that.....

We were early for the coffee shop this morning so we took a little drive around and found a rather understated park in one of Coquitlam's rabit warren of industrial parks just below the bridge. Masquabeak Park. Tucked in behind warehouses. A place people mostly go to launch their fishing and/or motor boats. To my delight, there wasn't a soul there this morning when we stopped and hopped out to take a few shots of the view.

Pictures.

The tree trimmers are here.

Up in the bucket.

Just a little off the top.

My new hens and chicks plant.

Strings of Turtles.

Burro's Tails.

A view from the Masquabeak boat launch.

Looking up the Fraser River.

Fraser shoreline.

River reeds.

Curious crow.

Yellow.

Machine vs nature.

Tree and sky.

Overhead wires.

A view from New Westminster's Parkade

Another stellar morning. I wish we could bottle mornings like this to open it in the future.

He decided that it was time I take a look at the monolithic highrises that are going up right on the water. I truly pity the folks who have to live in their shadows. Sadly we can't deny the fact that this area is quickly running out of places to live. We're borrowing a page from the 'How-Hong-Kong-Fits-So-Many People-In-So-Little-Space' handbook. We're growing UP instead of OUT. We're backed up against mountains on three sides and the Pacific on the fourth. We have nowhere else to go but up. I won't get into my anxiety about living in a major earthquake zone with all these menacing towers and their glass walls. Yes, there's the valley but can we please, please, please keep some land for farming. People like to eat. 

Anyway, these are just two in an ever growing steel and glass jungle. Took some pictures from the (locally?) famous New Westminster parkade over Front street (where many television and film productions are shot) and this is what I shot...