Inner Harbour January 27, 2012

A harbour area walk - Feb. 1, 2011

Periodically, John Lennon's 'Yellow Submarine' Rolls Royce is displayed in the museum lobby.

I finally got around to walking through Cridge Park to see what has been going on. Neglected for years and used as a campground, it has seen a burst of activity recently.

The stones in the centre look as if they should have plaques on them, but don't (yet?). Ferns have been planted around some of the trees and tree stumps.

Perhaps residents in the new condos in the area got tired of looking at the squalor and pushed for the park to be cleaned up.

Lured by 'that aircraft smell' I walked along the harbour. I'm not sure if this pond at the Laurel Point Inn is new or renewed.

But I always feel like I'm on vacation when walking by it.

Near sunset, a float plane taxies out and it's time for me to go home.

December 2009 - A walk on an icy morning

December 10, 2009

It always surprises me to see ice in the Inner Harbour.

The little harbour ferries, decorated for Christmas, look frozen in place.

The ice may not have been thick enough for me to walk on, but it was for some.

Downtown on Government Street, the chalk artist had been at work.

Around town - March 11, 2009

After I got off work, Glenn and I walked all over town. It's not every day you see a dog loping along in such an area. It was a construction site on Blanshard that we passed on the way to Tim Horton's for coffee to warm ourselves up. Don't let the blue sky fool you. Arctic air is still blowing down on Victoria and it was bitterly, freezing cold.

Walking through Chinatown Glenn pointed to a second floor room (not shown below) where he used to teach.

We continued through Fan Tan Alley.

At an entrance to Market Square was this gate. I liked the shadows on the yellow wall but the photo doesn't quite make it.

Down at the harbour, the little ferries are at rest.

Here is a recent addition to "spruce up" Bastion Square. A canoe stuck in giant tulips? No, apparently those are reeds and seed pods. This looks suspiciously similar to the metal posies out at the airport. That's because they were done by the same guy.

Continuing through Bastion Square, Glenn reminisced about the time he ran into Harry Heine outside the gallery that was at the bottom of the stairs, lower right . They discussed the art shows that used to happen in Eatons, now The Bay, back centre. Who knows - I may have seen Glenn's paintings there long before I knew him.

A walk to town

With good reason Glenn doesn't like the number 13, let alone Friday the 13th, so he stayed home while I walked around the harbour and in to town this afternoon. By then the sun had disappeared and the wind picked up. It was nice to see the lower causeway so vacant though. If you look at the far end of the lawn you'll see that a tree is actually in blossom. Who knows what makes a plant decide to bloom when it's still so cold outside.