Somehow the anniversary of the sinking of Titanic has come around again. What a tragic event but it does not hold any enduring interest for me. Despite that admission,  we have a couple of representations of Titanic, acquired in the late 1970s. I like them a lot. The first is a painting by a Southwest Nova artist… Read More

In the Travel Section of the Saturday Globe and Mail I was intrigued by a piece on visiting the Sable Island National Park Reserve. The isolated Island does hold a special attraction  for lots of people. Made me go looking for the slides I took during a two hour visit back in December 1975. An acquaintance in the Department of Environment  had been doing work on… Read More

It was sad to read the stories about Bridgetown's final moments as an actual town (here is background by John DeMont). I have some history with Bridgetown and this got me looking at old photographs and recalling memories of the town. My parents grew up in Bridgetown (sort of childhood sweethearts). Their parents had moved there… Read More

Last month in Mexico I often noticed  advertisements for Bimbo bread. Then I looked at news from home and learned that cute, little Bimbo owned Ben's Bread and was closing their big bakery on Pepperell Street in Halifax. The closure is not a huge surprise; little manufacturing happens on the peninsula anymore. The fragrance of baking… Read More

For the past month we've been in Mexico and missed the horror that was March weather in Halifax and the rest of Nova Scotia.  We were aware of the serial, extraordinary, snow events and sensed the pain. Give yourselves a hug. I thought of those  giant mounds of snow  and ice when we visited the charming, colonial city of Guanajuato.… Read More

A while back I posted about killicks, the elegant wood and stone anchors used by fishermen. Many people seemed to appreciate the ingenious design, including a blacksmith who said he was going to make an iron version. All of this encouraged me to look for the few bits of fishing gear we have around the… Read More

When I was looking through my photos to find examples of five sided dormers for the Scottish Dormers post I noticed there was also a good selection of other appealing dormer forms. Here is a selection that should elevate your gaze above the snow banks. This line of little gabled dormers is on Dresden Row, photographed in… Read More

I've been noticing in the medias that the King's Wharf development on the Dartmouth waterfront is having an open house soon for a new building. This would not normally register but the new building is called The Killick and killicks are one of my favourite things! So this is an opportunity to show my few photographs… Read More