Feb.13th. Hager's Books annual sale - 20% off everything. Yum. Owner Andrea was leaving a phone message with Cole (to make sure her loyal customer came!) as Diana and I walked into her shop. My haul: "Frog and Toad" presents, a new "Bertie" by Alexander McCall Smith, Thomas King's "The Back of the Turtle", and "Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" by a new-to-me author, Alan Bradley. That ought to do it.
Feb.14th. First, a prowl in the backyard. Lenten roses. Last year they all got zapped in a January freeze. This year they have appeared in their full glory, seen out our bedroom window.
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| descendants of the "original" from the Watney garden |
Then, to the Musqueam Cultural Centre Gallery, on the river edge of the Musqueam Reserve, to see an exhibit of artifacts from the Marpole midden - "cesna?em, the city before the city" - the native village here on the north shore of the Fraser River (straight down from Wiltshire Street) until 1500 years ago, when it seems that the village people moved down-river, to the newly-formed delta at the present Musqueam site. (The Marpole village name, cesna?em, is pronounced something like "tsus-naam" and the e's are actually upside down - but how to do that on a Mac?) Remnants of fishing gear, jewelry, basketry, cooking implements, mauls, adzes... Descriptions of canoe-making, house-building… All fascinating, and from right here! There are two other parts to this exhibit - at the Museum of Anthropology and the Museum of Vancouver, so we just need to stir our stumps to get there too.
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| the Musqueam Cultural Centre |
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| Musqueam land at the Fraser River's mouth, seen from the Centre |
And finally, a "muddy walk" along the Southlands Bridle Path beside the Fraser River.
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