Vancouver’s first snowfall Vancouver’s first snowfall of the 2010 – 2011 season, photograph taken from my apartment window at one in the morning. The City of Vancouver is expecting residents and businesses to shovel the snow off their sidewalks this winter. If they don’t, they may be slapped with $250 fines. Vancouver’s manager of street operations, Murray Wightman, said Thursday the city was hoping for a better public response than it got after a record [...]
Kootenay National Park .. Numa Pass One of the Canadian Rockie’s hidden gems .. This hike follows the Rockwall face in Kootenay National Park .. This view is of the Numa pass on day two of my four day hike .. The person in the lower right having a rest is my wonderful beautiful Wife Laurie. The Rockwall Trail starts at Floe Lake, at the base of the massive 700-meter-high cliffs of the Vermilion Range. [...]
Image of the sculpture ’217.5 ARC X13′ by the French artist Bernar Venet, shown as part of the Vancouver Sculpture Bienalle. The problem with art is that it always seems to come into our lives from out of nowhere, like a surprise party. One day you’re doing some very normal things – jogging the seawall, awaiting the arrival of your half-caff latte, thinking about sushi – when BAM, there it is. Something way out of [...]
This photograph was taken at out 2009 summer home near Fort Steele Heritage park. These oil barrels are near an old abandoned house
History of Fort Steele The origin of Fort Steele can be traced to the small settlement of Galbraith’s Ferry, which was born during the 1864 Kootenay gold rush. In 1888 the settlement’s name was changed to Fort Steele to honour Superintendent Samuel Steele of the North West Mounted Police, who peacefully settled tensions between white settlers and the Ktunaxa people. Major mineral discoveries in the East Kootenay brought a new boom in 1897. Fort Steele [...]
Whilst some of our friends went to Mexico for thier “Spring Break”, we in our wisdom decided on Tofino on the west coast of BC .. Sigh
