If you want color during these gray winter days the best place to find it is in the mall. This one is on Douglas Street downtown and is a ni...

Here's what our place looks like this Christmas Eve. Fern and I take this opportunity to thank you for your many visits here throughout ...

Yes, 21 - that's how many shopping days remain until Christmas. I suspect your local retailers are keeping you well informed of this. He...

One of the more famous tourist attractions in the Greater Victoria area is the Butchart Garden , a large complex of several gardens that hav...

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Here's Victoria's Inner Harbour Causeway with the Legislature's special Christmas lights. The rain spots on the lens in the uppe...

Regular visitor Dean Lewis sent me this splendid video. Thanks Dean. Enjoy!

Above, busy with a cell phone and an i-Pod, passersby fail to notice Mr. and Mrs. Santa strolling by on Victoria's Government Street. Be...

I'm getting to be old enough so that I often hear myself saying, "When I was a boy...." because so many things have changed si...

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Well, here it is Christmas Eve again. Season's Greetings to all my visitors, friends and family.

Recorded Christmas carols relentlessly fill one's ear during this season so it was nice to hear some live voices providing the music. Th...

I hope on this day you are all with your loved ones and are at peace with yourself and the world. I have tried to get out and greet most of ...