The above trio are a Victoria-based blues band called "Slim & The Deuces". They contacted me last week and asked if I would li...

The Janion Hotel pictured here was one of old town Victoria's most derelict buildings until recent renovations. Below is what it looked ...

Regular visitors here will know that I like to see murals on our buildings rather than ads or blank walls and here's another that I have...

For many years the derelict Janion Hotel stood boarded up and empty at the eastern end of the Johnson Street Bridge. It looked haunted enoug...

Just around the corner from Chinatown is this landmark heritage building, Swans Hotel, at the bottom of Pandora Street. Originally erected a...

Beneath a riot of plum blossoms is a stand familiar to most Victorians. Mr. Tube Steak is on his corner of Store Street with his selection o...

Fern posted a photo of a favorite bakery of hers yesterday. Here's a favorite stop of mine whenever I go downtown, the store called Valu...

After I posted a photo of Capital Iron a few days ago, blog visitor Pedro commented that I should check it out after dark when they turn on ...

I'm sure every city has a store like Capital Iron. It's the store you go to when you can't find what you want in any of your ord...

Here's a new mural - this one located on Store Street at the end of the parking lot opposite Capitol Iron. I can't give any backgrou...

We've had some bright, sunshiny days lately though they have generally been accompanied by a cold wind. Here's another of my favouri...

Here's another one from the Apex Steel Building. Victoria is known for it's mild climate and beautiful gardens but I like knowing i...

At the end of Store Street, on the edge the Rock Bay site sits the former Apex Steel building. It's currently owned by BC Hydro but the...

One of Victoria's largest murals is on the side of the Mark's Work Wearhouse store facing the Capital Iron parking lot on Store S...

She's thinking, "Gee, I rilly like his hair but maybe I should tell him sun block works better if you spread it around...."...

Victoria is not all parks and groves and delightful little bays with seawall walkways. It has its industrial side as well although tourism a...