Vancouver Art Gallery

We went to the Vancouver Art Gallery today to see the surrealist exhibition...pretty impressive collection of materials including the Dali "Lobster Telephone". Some surrealists collected our First Nations art and felt it had some of the same qualities they were trying to capture and some of the items from collections of these surrealist artists were included. You can certainly see the link when they are exhibited side by side.

Vancouver Art Gallery

Now, what was really great about going to the Art Gallery is we parked on Bute and Barclay in our residents only parking for free and walked to the Art Gallery. It took about 10 minutes. It's just great to have this free parking and it's always a pleasant walk downtown as you have all the downtown stuff and then all these wonderful parts of streets they've made pedestrian only which are usually tree-lined, one had a neat fountain, and have some heritage houses along with the apartments and condos.

There are so many people living in the heart of the city that have these quiet oases as neighbourhoods. And then there are all the wonderful parks and facilities, beaches, etc.

Vancouver has a plan to be the greenest city in the world by 2020. One goal is everyone living in the city will be no more than a 5 minute walk to a green space and loads of other neat things. Way to go, Vancouver!

Talk Green Vancouver | City of Vancouver


Very cool water fountain.


Pedestrians only in the heart of the city.


One of the lovely heritages houses that have been preserved.


I loved the "unattended children" sign on this foodcart.


This seems like a fun job...being paid to make mudpies.