One of the special things about travelling is that you sometimes find real gems in your own backyard. Urban landscapes or country roads, they both provide the opportunity to explore your own surroundings. Such was the case here.

Although I live in a pretty fabulous pocket of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, I leave it almost every day to make the trek into Vancouver’s downtown core. After work, the return trip is typical of the mind-numbing slog through rush-hour traffic many of us deal with on a regular basis. However, in my case, it’s the last two minutes as I snake over the hill, dip to the right and into Deep Cove that makes that return ’slog’ bearable. But sometimes the ‘before’ is even more amazing than the ‘after’.

Recently, early one morning, I was faced with an amazing temperature inversion that rendered the entire Cove invisible, blanketed in fog. This little video will give you a glimpse of what I would have slept through had it not been for the ‘little cat’s feet’ *.

[* With apologies to Carl Sandburg.]