Spermophilus Columbianus protecting her burrow in Lac La Hache - signs on the times...

The Columbian Ground Squirrel has a reddish brown belly, Grayish mixed with black above (with buff colored spotting). The front of the face and front legs are also reddish brown, and the tail is bushy and reddish brown with dark guard hairs at the tip. This is a female perched on a rock near the entrance to her tunnel home. Her belly has swollen mummeries which will feed her young litter - on average about 3 to 5 kits. The Columbian Ground Squirrel is colonial, much like the prairie dogs in Alberta, living in communities of connected burrows. The adult squirrel eats many kinds of food, including grasses, plant stems, leaves, seeds, bulbs and tubers, insects, birds and other small vertebrates. Larger colonies can be very damaging to grain fields.

A stone nurse from the Georgia Medical Dental Building on Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver, and bowling sign on top of the Ridge Bowling Lane on Arbutus and 15th Avenue in Kitsilano - things that are being bowled over because of changing times. The Bowl sign advertises a 5 pin bowling alley that was built in the early 1950s - Five-pin bowling (invented by Tom Ryan of Toronto) came to the Lower Mainland of B.C in 1920. By 1945 it overtook ten-pin in the number of its followers.

A work of digital art - April 21, 2011.