From the "DOME"

So far, I have blogged about the first leg of our trip to B.C.

There was the Winnipeg Exchange District, The Marine Building, Granville Island, and The Fringe Festival.

To-day's blog will feature pictures taken from the dome car as we travel across the Prairies and through the Rockies.

Here we have the Potash Mines in Saskatchewan, which were recently in the news because of a hostile takeover bid by BHP of Australia.

This is our first glimpse of the Rockies as we approach Edmonton.

Here, the train takes us alongside the Fraser River, and the mountains.


Looking across the Fraser River at the beginnings of the Rockies.

It started to rain, so there are some droplets on the car window which I cannot remove, without some serious work in Photoshop.



Up ahead, we can see the mist hanging over the mountains.

This is the first snow-peaked mountain to appear on our trip through this province.

Culture

While in Vancouver, I took a lot of pictures and became the consummate tourist for a couple of weeks....however, I did breathe in some culture; thanks to my sister.
Leona and I attended a Vancouver Folk Song Society event, and we went to see two plays at the Vancouver Fringe Festival.

The first play was called "7X1 Samurai" by David Gaines.
The actor mimed and created his own sound effects as he performed an entertaining scenario of Akira Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai".

You can read a review of his act that appeared in the Washington Post here.

The other play was titled "Dead Man's Cell Phone" - a comedy by Sarah Ruhl.

It tells the story of a woman who somehow feels responsible for the man's cell phone when he doesn't answer it.
The reason, of course, is because he has died in the cafe, and no one seems to have noticed, except her.

We both enjoyed these plays very much, and Leona met some friends while we waited in line at the Firehall Arts Centre on Cordova Street.
I will be posting more pictures of VanCity....soon.