Homeless in Vancouver: The eastern promise of another new day

If nature doesn’t provide clouds for a fiery sunrise, the steam billowing off the Vancouver General Hospital‘s Pattison Pavilion generally suffices.

Of some 15 photos, this was the one that best allowed me to hold the contrast between the dour alley and the explosive effect of the sun rising through the cloud of steam. It was also the only photo of the lot that caught another binner (on the bike) blundering into the alley—and no photo of a Fairview alley would be truly complete without at least one binner.

Looking back even as I’m looking forward to breakfast

It’s only five blocks west but if the sun was beginning to show over the VGH when I was at Oak Street, then the show was definitely over by the time I arrived at South Granville Street; that was because I checked every single container blue bin along the way and zigged south and zagged north a few times along the way.

Looking east from South Granville down 11th Avenue, the only fiery orange that remained to be seen was the City of Vancouver’s sign in the middle of the road warning “ROAD CLOSED AHEAD”, a block in advance of the ongoing sewer work on Hemlock Street, so ending the poetry of the morning.