Unbearable Darkness.

I saw the sun yesterday!

In Vancouver, that’s a big deal…

The winter months have been upon us and for Vancouver that means rain, rain… and only brief moments of… no wait, more rain.

But yesterday, there was sunshine.  Glorious sunshine! It was all I could do from taking the ‘other’ bus home, the looooong bus, the one that stops at the beach.  Ahhhhhh.  But sunshine makes me lazy, so I took the good bus, got home, popped a pinot grigio and sat on the balcony- for twenty minutes.

Brrrrr.

Now, I’m from Saskatoon, a cool breeze should be nothing.  I even went to University in Edmonton for christsakes.  I walked 8 blocks to the U of A for four years, in minus 30 degree weather…. Uphill. Both ways.

But now, for better or for worse, I am truly a Vancouverite, with a heart that yearns for a day in the sun.  So when it happened, I braved the freezing +2 degree temperature and sat on my tiny Vancouver balcony, wrapped in 3 pashminas, and savoured my chilled Red Rooster Pinot Grigio…. As if it were August.  And even then, there might be rain.

What keeps you ‘light’ when the dark winter months settle in… is it a new wine, a fun restaurant...or just the inspiration of a brief glimpse of sunlight?