There are signs everywhere.  They guide and inform us but can tend to blur into the background at times.  Go out and look for interesting unique signs or signs that you find humorous or just plain confusing.  All in an artful way of course!

University campuses are normally swarming with students going from class to class, researchers heading off to labs and libraries, and support staff keeping the whole academic community going. Not these days! The main campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC) has been exceedingly quiet due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This photographic Outing is an opportunity to walk the Main Mall, a pedestrian boulevard, with very few people. The main campus is over 100 years old at Point Grey and beautiful trees with fall colours line the boulevards. In several locations there are examples of public art, historical plaques and architectural designs. One of the newest is the “Reconciliation Totem Pole” marking the complex history of pre-residential schools, the impact of the residential school system on First Nations and the post-residential reconciliation of cultures.

The Main Mall is the heart of the UBC campus, stretching from Thunderbird Crescent, northward past the Libraries, to Flag Pole Plaza and the Rose Garden.

As a side option, the BEATY BIODIVERSITY MUSEUM is currently open for visitors on a limited basis. This is a teaching and research museum, with several million specimens. The museum does have interpretive displays of various taxonomic categories, both creatures living today and the vast diversity of life forms of the past. Upon entering the Atrium, you go beneath the bones of a 25 metres long great blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus).

One of the current exhibits at the BEATY is “ReCollections”, a photography display of creative works by past and present staff, students, researchers and volunteers of the Museum and of the Biodiversity Research Centre.