Outdoors

PLACE: Alice Lake Provincial Park (CLICK FOR MAP) LOCATION: Brackendale, B.C. "A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

PLACE: Jug Island Beach Trail, Belcarra Regional Park LOCATION: Port Moody, B.C. After last week's adventure in Squamish I was looking for something a little closer to home for this week's UNPLUGGED: excursion.

PLACE: Fern Hill (Click for Map & detailed topographical info - PDF) LOCATION: Squamish, B.C. Just under one hour's drive from Vancouver and I find myself in the climbers parking lot of The Chief.

I've see this occurrence in the wild, I've seen it on the streets of our city, and I almost always shoot a photo of it when I do. It's a tree growing out of the stump of a previously fallen tree, and I love it.

The sun's out, and though the cherry blossoms are gone, it's simply beautiful around, isn't it?

PLACE: Whytecliff Park (Click for Map) LOCATION: West Vancouver Everybody needs a break from the daily grind. A way to forget the commute, the meetings, the email and GTD.

There are few things that smell as wonderful as Vancouver early on a spring morning. That's all, really. Consider this an open thread to wax poetic about spring around town.

WORDS AND PHOTOS: Vanessa Griffiths If you tend to look upwards when you hear a nose overhead it shouldn't be surprising that there is an airplane passing over at 3000 feet or below.

When we originally shared this commercial below with you a bunch of you were asking "who's that guy" and "where's that?".

Frank just shared another Urban Chicken with you so I figured it fitting to bring you this Urban Owl courtesy of the Vancouver Public Library's main branch and their Flickr pool .