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| This white bird uses its beak to help it get from the hanging vertical
wire to the ground and vice versa.
| I know it's not a predatory flower, yet it seems like a claw ready to
grasp something.
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| Queen Elizabeth Park
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| Vancouver and mountains as seen from somewhere in Queen Elizabeth
Park.
| Another view, from a slightly different place in the park.
| A close-up of one of the taller mountains.
| This handy man took a picture of me.
(How? I carefully balanced my nice new camera on top of his camera.)
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| Me, posing in front of my statue family.
| Ibid, though with a much shorter exposure time so as to not wash out the
sky and mountains. If I had photoshop skills and time, I'd combine the
background from this picture with the foreground from the last picture.
(The foreground from this picture is too dark.)
It's kind of neat to flip back and forth between them.
| A large fountain.
| The rose garden.
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| The rose garden as seen from the opposite side.
| A random shot taken while walking along one of the roads near the park's
perimeter, simply to show the park's natural greenery.
| Ducks.
There are many more in the distance.
| Ditto, but more ducks have their heads out of the water.
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| A movie of the ducks.
| The duck pond again, as seen from the opposite end.
| One what-the-map-calls-a quarry in the park.
| A variety of greenery, but I really took the picture because I like the
bridge high in the trees. It's in the upper-left.
I think this is another quarry.
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A close-up of the bridge in the trees. Excellent for its novelty.
The geodesic dome in the background is the floral conservatory.
| A look down into a quarry. Its lawn is maintained like a putting green.
There's a cluster of bamboo beyond it.
| A bridge and monument, both of which have an oriental feel.
| A cute stone bridge surrounded by colorful bushes.
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| The same quarry and bridge, as seen from above and in the opposite
direction.
| I took this picture to record a typical example of the landscape of Queen Elizabeth Park's outer half, which is mostly open space.
| Although it took a little searching, I found the park's disc golf course
in an outer corner. It's pretty nondescript. If I didn't point out the
disc goal at the far right of this picture, and the second one in the
distance just to the left of the central tree, you probably wouldn't
have noticed it was a course.
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| Dinner at Chen's Shanghai Restaurant
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| Chen's Shanghai Restaurant, our dinner destination.
| A woman made dumplings behind a glass window in the back of the restaurant.
| Filling the dumplings.
| Light, noodle-y wontons, exactly the kind I like.
I liked these
better than the ones I
had earlier at No. 9 restaurant.
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| Great pan-fried dumplings with thick doughy skin (sheng jian bao). When
I bit one, the juice squirted out of my mouth!
| Quite good mushroom-vegetable buns, made with wonderfully light, spongy
dough. (The dough was certainly lighter than most places' versions of
Chinese steamed buns.)
| The insides of a mushroom-vegetable bun.
| The top-notch xiao long bao (Shanghai soup-filled dumplings) had tons of
soup in a very delicate wrapper. We found them easiest to pick up by
their tops.
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| Fodder for Queen Elizabeth Park Quarry Garden Panorama
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