Summer is not here

It's raining.

June is such a fickle month in Vancouver, the summer is starting but it's generally still fairly cool and rainy. I find it amusing that Vancouverites say that summer starts on summer solstice, on 21st, whereas in Finland we call it midsummer. Telling a Finn that summer starts on juhannus would get strange reactions, I'm sure.

I'm at work, watching crows feed their chicks on the roof of the building opposite. They are fluffy and stupid and eternally hungry and selfish.

Last weekend I was lucky enough to get to go to Paul Grilley's workshop again. Last time I saw him was about two and a half years ago and that time he changed my yoga practice completely - soon afterwards I decided to become a yoga teacher. This time was not quite as earth shattering, but it was still very very good - his knowledge on the subject of fascia and the modern meridian theory really is unparalleled in the west. He's holding a ten day anatomy workshop in California next year, and I'm seriously thinking of going there... I can probably dedicate one week a year to my further yoga teacher training - this year I'm going to study with another teacher of mine, Bernie Clarke, at his nine day retreat in Whistler - that's happening in a week's time.

I also bought a new camera today. To replace my old Ixus, I went for Canon SD800 IS, and currently I'm waiting for the battery to charge... pretty new pictures to follow in Flickr soon, I promise.