Looking back (again!)
"Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You…
Island View revisited
It seems that the majority of posts to this journal for December feature photographs taken at and around Island View beach here on the Saanich Peninsula. In part this abundance…
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025 RIP For many young men growing up in Europe during the 60s and 70s Brigitte Bardot represented the epitome of sensual womanhood... long before most…
A merry little Christmas
…to friends, acquaintances and gentle readers… …from the Kickass Canada Girl and the Imperceptible Immigrant… we wish you a safe and peaceful Christmas and a Happy Hogmany! As is my…
Foreshore/backshore
"Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff" Joan Didion Last time out I posted a cluster of images of the driftwood that…
Above the strandline
We are well into December now and the year seems to be rushing away as though trying desperately to escape. Given the grim happenings of the passed twelve months that…
Sir Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard 1937 – 2025 RIP Those who are no strangers to rambling the raggle-taggle byways of this eclectic journal will doubtless have observed that I am in the habit…
Repeating myself
“There is no harm in repeating a good thing” Plato My last post to this forum was entitled ‘Making a Spectacle’- and related the tale of the efforts that I…
Making a spectacle
Back at the top of the year I found myself - for only the second time in my life - eligible for extended heath benefits... courtesy of the College by…
A year grown old
“She stands in tattered gold Tossing bits of amber and jade Jewels of a year grown old: November.” Zephyr Ware Tarver - “A Queen Makes an Exit” November is upon…