Wednesday, April 30, 2014




















Garbage Day (2014)
by Bernie Lyon

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

















Beaver Lake trail, Stanley Park. 2014

Saturday, April 19, 2014




















Italian court orders former Prime Minister  Silvio Berlusconi to spend at least four hours a week, for one year, helping older people in a care home in Lombardy (New York Times, April 16/14)
— Illustration by Bernie Lyon

Monday, April 14, 2014




















44th off Fraser
Bernie Lyon 2014

Thursday, April 10, 2014



















Photo by Brian Kent.

A quarter century ago I wrote this Vancouver Sun feature about an 18-year-old Canucks rookie:

TREVOR LINDEN's 1965 red Mustang is five years older than he is and a classic for all the right reasons.
None of these flashy reptilian Teutonic-Italio imports with more curves than a swimsuit calendar for Johnny Canuck. The Vancouver rookie likes 'em simple, swift and honest.
Back in The Hat (as Linden calls his hometown of Medicine Hat) he keeps a stock Datsun 240Z for off-season spins and has helped his dad restore a 1956 T-Bird - the classic of classic cars.
Classic. The noun-adjective of the '80s. While boomer-oids pine for all things classic (rock & roll, Coke and Gilligan's Island), sports fans, too, yearn for the classic aesthetic - the purity of a Johnny Unitas, the elegance of a Jean Beliveau, the integrity of a Stan Musial...
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014


















From the collection — circa 1930s?

Saturday, April 5, 2014



















37th Avenue East, Laneway House
Bernie Lyon — 2014

Wednesday, April 2, 2014


















Blue Angel Convenience — West Pender (2014)