What a crazy, snowy day here in Vancouver.  I snapped photos around East Van during the day. I didn’t feel like venturing too far, even though I do own an SUV.  It looks very peaceful outside (11:39 pm), white drifts of  snow all over the place.  Anyhoo, this blog post is about the photos, good night.

C.V

Commercial Drive

Commercial Drive

Commercial Drive

Commercial Drive

Commercial Drive

East 22nd Avenue/ Renfrew Street

MetroTown, Burnaby

MetroTown, Burnaby

Nanaimo/Broadway

BackYard

East 24th Avenue

East 24th Avenue

I created a new graphical header for the Christmas season (LOOK UP). I had an hour to spare this Sunday morning at 6:30 am and yeah this is what I did. I have nothing better to do at 6:30 am? Hmm, I guess not. Just looking at the new header makes me cold, haha.

Looks like Mother Nature did a nice dump of snow on Vancouver last night while we were all sleeping. It looks like at least 3-4 inches of snow, maybe more. White Christmas here we come. Here are a few snap shots I took this morning (8:20 am now) of what I see when I open my front door here in East Vancouver (Renfrew Heights). Besides all the random parked cars, it looks very relaxing and calming to see everything blanketed with a nice coat of white. All the street garbage is hidden, no foot tracks in the snow, just virgin snow, gotta love it.

9:20 am  - Just finished shovelling all the snow on the city sidewalks and my sidewalks, that was a good work out.

With all the depressing news talking about a recession, I want to ask you. Do you know anyone who has been laid off because of the recession? I don’t know anyone, and 99% of the people I know are in trades such as carpentry and plumbing.  Nothing goes up forever, everyone seemed to think that the economy would get better and better. When in history has the economy ever done that? When have houses gone up for 10 years straight? These people need to get their heads out of their *sses seriously.  Nothing goes up forever, or down forever. The media has a nasty habit of making things seems much worse than they are, and much better than they are. They need to catch your attention, so they sensationalize everything.

1. Houses prices coming down? So what, weren’t they getting just a wee bit out of the price range of most folks?
2. Economy slowing down? Are you still working, me too.

I usually like to look at the glass half full, not half empty.  I think of this as a time of opportunity, for me personally.

1. more affordable real estate, which cash flows better.
2. cheaper gas prices, saves me money.
3. cheaper priced Christmas gifts because of all the sales because of the “recession”.

Keep smiling the sky isn’t falling, just the bullsh*t from the media is. Yeah the economy is slowing down, but guess what it will be going back up again, and then back down and back up after that. This is just another cycle, keep living your life.

What do you think, leave a comment.

Photos of my Christmas tree:

Santa Claus closeup

Christmas light closeup

gold angel closeup

gold angel closeup

December 19, 2008 7:53 am early morning photo of the sun coming up in East Vancouver

Last night was damn cold and then the snow came. We had planned to go to a friends house in White Rock, and we were on the way there. We got onto Highway 97 just after North Delta and that was it, instant traffic jam and cars moved at a snails pace. I waited it out for a whole minutes when I said “F*ck this”, and did a u turn and headed back home. There was no way I was going to go to White Rock and hang our for 3 hours while it was coming down hard. With all the jackasses on the road I would of had a hell of a time getting back home later that evening. I cut my losses and went home instead. I called Bruno, apologized and that was it.

I then took a few shots from the beginning of the snowfall here in East Van, with my Canon SD 750 set at 1600 ISO (gives more light in dark conditions such as night time).  Below are the photos from last nights “snow storm”.

I can’t say too much for today, looks like an Arctic Wonderland from my office window. I would rather blog about the cold than be in it that’s for damn sure!

It looks like the East Vancouver  Trinity Street Christmas lights are in full swing now. Last time I was there I saw only a few houses lit up, now the whole street looks like an LED paradise from East to West. It’s cool that some neighbourhoods in Vancouver have some sort of traditions. It gives more meaning to a city if people have that neighbourhood feeling.

I snapped a shot of the ginger bread house, what an amazing concept. Take a look at the photo below, that house is by far the most creative. It was there last year as well, very cool.

I find the easiest way to make the kids sleep is go for a car ride, works every time. So when I’m driving around I tend to snap digital photos, hence all the photos you see on this blog. It’s fun and free, and it’s a record of that moment in time that will never be available again.

Enjoy.