Russian Textiles

Vancouver Public Arts

Quebec St. @ National Ave.

Science World

Dragon Zone @ False Creek 

Hinge Park @ False Creek

Olympic Village Square

Olympic Village Square

Only connect...

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. —E.M. Forster

That’s what E.M. Forster said on the first page in Howards End.

And at the Introduction by Benjamin DeMott… “the only living novelist who can be read again and again and who, after each reading, give me… the sensation of having learned something.”

E.M. Forster is not the easiest author to adapt to the screen as so much is left unsaid. The plot itself was always of secondary import to Forster, a Fabian who truly was a social commentator. 

It’s bluebells season in Vancouver now! Remind me so much about a scene in the 1992 film Howards End by Ivory and Merchant when Samuel West character Leonard Bast walking right out of London into a bluebells wood. 

I learned to love the bluebells.  

Edward Morgan Forster January 1, 1879 — June 7, 1970

Springtime in Vancouver

Every year in spring, Vancouver hosts the most stunning flower show on earth.

love maps

I love maps, of all kinds, practical maps on road trips, treasure maps, historical maps, National Geographic maps, fictional maps in books like The Hobbit, etc., and these, just gift wrapping papers from art supplies shop, recently caught my eye.

Hans Blomquist

I once had had a thought
About a thought I once had had
About whether it was natural
For nature to seem so natural,
Whether there was a Man in the Sun
Who steadied the sun with levers,
Pulleys, and gears, and if so whether
He ever managed not to be there ...
—Rowan Ricardo Philips

Van Cliburn - Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, B-flat minor

1934-7-12 — 2013-2-27