The day Vancouver disappeared

This summer, we avoided the outside world for at least week before we headed to the water front to see for ourselves the extent of the smoke that had descended on Vancouver from BC’s  out of control wildfires.

But in fact we couldn’t see Vancouver. 

When we arrived at The Pier, it looked like there was nothing beyond The Pier itself. Pretty eerie stuff. 

However plenty of people were about. An event on the pier was just wrapping up and one of the thoughtful coordinators offered my girls a colourful group of balloons. Delighted the girls accepted and danced on with their new found balloons. And so happened these photos, of capturing the smoke. 

The balloons made the kids happy and whimsical. However they added an eerie and somewhat sad feel to the images, which I found rather intriguing and yet completely apt. 

It felt like we had destroyed the world and summer was gone.