Three Things from Edmonton podcast: Episode 126: bridge lights, a stick of butter, flying home
Back from Vancouver with three things that left tracks of happiness and gratitude in the sands of time. Three Things, episode 125: 1. Bridge lights We got to Vancouver, got up to our hotel room, opened the curtains—and saw Dave Mowat standing there. Not the Dave Mowat, late of ATB Financial, but a way of seeing things like Dave Mowat sees things was out there over the Burrard Inlet to be clearly seen. The Lions Gate Bridge stood in the dark, its lights hanging like a garland of starlight. Or pearls. Memorably, Dave once likened the festooned lights on the First Narrows Bridge to pearls. He was doing a Pecha Kucha at the Horowitz Theatre at the U of A, pitching the idea of lighting the High Level Bridge in Edmonton. For the crowd, he pictured the Lions Gate at night. "There's a sense of dance of light, a dance with a bejewelled partner," he said, noting the...