The ravine is deep, and green most of the year, with a stream flowing through it. It winds through the residential areas of Burnaby, British Columbia. While lush and green are fooling you. Like so many of these small “natural” walkways through the city underneath is its real purpose. There is both a sewage and a high-pressure gas line. The walkway has scattered warnings about its true dangerous nature. On a quiet day, you can stand still and hear the gas flowing, and the sludge. It’s rather disheartening.
Parking lot Overlooking Deep Cover, Burnaby, British Columbia.
The cove, just inland from Vancouver proper, serves as a terminal to industry and the oil industry in particular. Ship traffic is set to double due to new pipelines.
A Walk Through the Cranberry Farms and Marshland.
These images are from a short project I have been working on during a break in the rain. These paths seem endless, with walkways across the cranberry fields, through the marshlands and then by the river. Some are wide open walkways, some roads and then, suddenly you can be bending over to make your way through an archway of winter-bent tree branches. Eagles, floatplanes and clouds pass by endlessly. There is a rumble of explosions from quarries in the mountains echoing back and forth across the valley. Remnants of last season’s berry crop, bright red, break through where there was snow and ice a few days before.
