The beautifully restored house above is the Ross Bay Villa. It is directly across the street from the Ross Bay Cemetery and is one of the f...

While most of the graves in Ross Bay Cemetery are of historical figures from the 19th and early 20th centuries, here is the stone that marks...

John Dean was a pioneer businessman active in many areas of life in 19th and early 20th century Victoria. He had a house in Esquimalt but in...

I was touched to see the perfect mementos devotees have used to decorate the grave of one of Victoria's best known and best loved artist...

Regular visitors here will know that I often like to browse among the graves in our oldest colonial cemetery on Ross Bay because so many of ...

On the eastern side of Clover Point is a large semicircular bay called Ross Bay. It's named after one of the early factors of the Hudson...

Here is a kind of mushroom that I look for every year because they are so colorful and have such a long and controversial history. Consequen...

Whilst riding around the Fairfield neighborhood the other day I decided to visit Moss Rock Park, a small rocky hilltop, also known as Fairfi...

I've posted about the Abkhazi Garden and its romantic past before but I revisited it the other day for a wonderful surprise. Not only ...

Sixty-six meters below the observatory on Gonzales Hill (yesterday's post) is the small beach of Gonzales Bay. It's also known as Fo...

St. Ann's Academy was the first school in Victoria. It opened its doors When the BC gold rush was just beginning in 1858. The red roofe...

OK, here's a confession. I don't like cloudy, cold damp weather. I know that good photographers say that bad weather is a blessing b...