Beginnings and Endings

 For the last two weeks, here in our condo above False Creek in Vancouver, we've watched the large parking lot twelve stories below fill up with long-haul trucks, massive white tents, and then workers who assembled rows of tables, put up and taken down, with crews cooking, and a fleet of pickups and cabs and limousines coming and going.

We didn't know what was happening until on one of our walks, Allen stopped to ask, and we learned this was one of several staging areas for the filming of Amazon's Wilderness series. Just this summer here in Vancouver. Next year, this somewhat twisted love story can be watched on Amazon Prime. If we wanted a head start on understanding the story, we could read B. E. Jones, Wilderness, the book that inspired the series.

Meanwhile, as morning lights up Vancouver, the trucks roll out, and a line of buildings face the rising sun, a kind of modern Stonehenge.

Now why I've called today's post, 'Beginnings and Endings,' is very simply for nearly the last 8 days, I've struggled with a bad cold. But not today. For as the trucks load up and leave, I can now return to writing -- and exploring this beautiful city. Temperatures remain somewhat cooler than elsewhere, in the mid to upper 70s, and the walkway along False Creek beckons, as do those untouched files in my laptop. All is well. Enjoy the summer!