Another Rain Soaked Day, But Then...

Rain all night last night and all day today. So a little visit with North Vancouver family, some grocery shopping and a Chef Barry prepared Italian dinner fill out the day. Ya, I know... a Polak cooking Italian style? Finally though, after dinner at around 7pm, it cleared enough to stroll the neighbourhood and really appreciate our surroundings.

But before I go for my stroll, a little more about the Morgan in the garage.
We managed to talk to the owner today who filled us in on the car.
It's a 1995 Morgan +8. He bought it from an estate sale this summer with only 6000 miles on it. Being a +8 of that vintage, it has a wooden frame, a 3.9 litre V8 engine putting out 185 bhp and weighing less than a ton, it can do 0 to 60 in about 6 seconds. He also started it up for us. "Nice noise", even at an idle.

Now for a stroll and our neighbourhood surroundings.

So after a couple days of rain, the stream behind our rental has graduated from a pleasant trickle to a roaring waterfall of mountainside runoff. This is no more than 30 feet from our back door as it roars down the hill. It's loud enough to required raised voices to carry on any kind of conversation standing near it.

As I continue along the trail behind the house and cross the bridge that spans the stream in the photos above, I'm now about 50 feet from the back door of the house. That's when I come across the treat pictured below.

Now I normally wouldn't take a photo of a pile of pooh, but this is no ordinary pile of pooh. It's rather large.

Large enough to remind me of the sign posted along the road down the hill. It read something like "Caution. Bear sighting in this area." So that's why our host suggested to the girls, that if they wanted to go for a walk in the area, they should stick to the roads rather than the neighbourhood trails. And I thought it was because the trails would be wet, slippery and muddy after all the rain.

As the sun was setting and shadows suddenly seemed to be moving, I decided to make my way out of the trails back to the streets where there would be far more pleasant photographic opportunities.

 Not a bad little neighbourhood we picked to stay in, I'd say. 

Cute little homes with a decent view and ok landscaping.

And with all the twisting switchback roads, a pretty nice place to drive a 1995 Morgan +8 too.

  

Lions Gate Bridge glistens through the trees in the foreground with Canada Place across the Burrard Inlet in the background.

Tomorrow, we'll be getting a close up view of the Burrard Inlet as we've booked a harbour lunch cruise. Hopefully the weather cooperates.