Garden Shed

A garden shed at 21st and Clark.

In the 25 years I have lived in the Kensington-Cedar Cottage/Little Saigon neighbourhood, this shed has remained more-or-less unchanged -- a wooden structure wrapped in tar paper. The only thing that has changed is the addition of those black shingles near the roof.

Years ago, while hosting a German friend, I showed her this structure after she asked if Vancouver has any schrebergartens.

"This is not a schrebergarten," I was told rather seriously, in the way Germans can be serious about such things. "This is, in fact, closer to nature than that which it pretends to be at home with."