Category: holiday

My visits to Santorini in 1976 and 1981

Much of the world’s major media have reported that the beautiful Greek island of Santorini is a prime example of overtourism n 2024.   That pronoted me to write  a memoir of my visit first in 1976 When Santorini was remote, welcoming, and cheap. For my photography site  I have added the photographs from that essay […]

It was a dark and stormy morning

It is interesting the kind of photographs that people like.   Early on Dec. 26, Boxing Day, there was a power outage mostly in the Kildala neighborhood here in Kitimat, after a stormy, windy and rainy night, People on social media were asking question, so I went to a window and used my Android phone to […]

Bluenose II and the 1984 Parade of Sail in Sydney, Nova Scotia

This is one of the my favourite photographs. The Bluenose II sailing off Sydney, Nova Scotia, on July 11, 1984, thirty-one years ago today. I like it because the Bluenose hasn’t set the ships tops’ls and that’s something that you don’t see that often at least in most photographs After a controversial $19.5 million refit, […]

Christ the King Choir

Holiday season begins with Kitimat’s rain-drenched Festival of Lights

Hundreds of people (including lots of kids) turned out in a chilly, wet, West Coast November downpour on Saturday for Kitimat’s Festival of Lights, officially marking the start of the holiday season.   A construction truck created an arch of Christmas lights over Mountainview Square. (Robin Rowland)   Puddles reflected the lights as the rain […]