First day of the last week...or less

I normally wake early on weekday mornings to cycle to work. Work being childcare. I tend to do 3 hours in the mornings, taking a set of 2-year-old twins out into the parks of Kitsilano, feeding them their snack, changing a diaper or two, before returning them to their father. It was a beautiful day today and would have been a lovely morning to toddle about with munchkins. However their father requested an evening shift and I obliged. So the morning was for me: I remembered how much I love having mornings to myself.

Commercial Drive is lovely in the autumn. As busy and eccentric as it was in the summer, the locals seem to be the main type of folk I see since the temperature has dropped. It's a bit of a shame I'm moving. Nah, strike that – I've had some good times in this apartment but it's time to depart. I can always return to this neighbourhood.


I saw my good friend, Missy, today. She recently moved to Vancouver from Penticton with her boyfriend. All going well, I'll be crashing with them in their lovely duplex during the Olympics. They recently adopted an SPCA kitten, formerly known as Nelson, currently nicknamed Thor (short for Sir Thor Oswald Harris VII...I too did not know cats could be knighted, but that is my Missy for you).
We dined at Applause on Oak and 67th, enjoying reasonably priced, well-stocked bento boxes for lunch and chatting about travelling in Europe. Missy did a bit in May and June of this year on her own. She was encouraging of my 'planned spontaneity' approach and bid me farewell with a winter jacket of hers as a loan to keep me warm. It will return to her hopefully as white as I've taken it.

I've got to find some tips on photographing hands if I'm going to make my project worthy of viewership. Marc of Take Out Photo says "meaning is conveyed in a person's hands. ...how to do a portrait of hands: show them in action. Capture the mechanic at work. Capture the child finger painting. Show hands turning the pages of a book. Hands holding a favorite possession. You get the picture."