xmas spririt

Amazing, snowy run today through the beautiful forest...love it, but also wishing the mountains were more packed with snow so I could get up for some boarding. Seems like every Olympic year is low on snow.

Was downtown last night drinking in the Christmas spirit that only a busy city can impart; so many people about! Walking from the Seabus to the West End, I found myself seeing the Vancouver of my youth superimposed on the Vancouver of 2013...the traffic free streets, the old library on Robson, the pre-renovated art gallery, Granville street when it still had Orientique and the small leather-smell laden John Fluevog, the site of the old Underground thrift shop...I could see it all. It all looks so different now and decidedly futuristic. Very cool. Anyway, all the retail Christmas porn on display has finally catapulted me into the Christmas spirit...bring on the treats and wine.