carved out of the forest

Stanley Park seems over-rated (on those gorgeous summer days when you think it'd be a great idea to picnic there, but so does the rest of the GVRD), but it is beautiful.
For those of you who don't live here, I wanted to show it off -- maybe it will strengthen your resolve to come out for new year's 2006/07, and we can ride the Christmas train together.

"A city that has been carved out of the forest should maintain
somewhere within its boundaries evidence of what it once was, and so long
as Stanley Park remains unspoiled that testimony to the giant trees which
occupied the site of Vancouver in former days will remain"
The News Herald - October 30, 1939

That's all for now,
love
m.