After spending two weeks in beautiful . . . exciting . . . sunny . . . oily cowy Edmonton, and three more days in oily cowy Lubbock TX, flying back into Vancouver last night and walking to work this morning once again in my favourite city was literally a breath of fresh air.

In addition to the beautiful view, the mild summer weather, and the obvious lack of bovine or petroleum particles in the air, even some of the stranger things elicited some retroactive homesickness:

At any rate, I’m back in town, at least for a good long while this time.