Be A Tourist In Your Own Town

Be A Tourist In Your Own Town

This past week two beautiful, sunny, warm days begged me to take them off and become a tourist in my own town. I learned from visits to two of my other favourite cities, San Francisco and New York, that taking the famous “Hop-On-Hop-Off” bus tour was...
Welcome to Gastown, Part One

Welcome to Gastown, Part One

Blue Jays weekend games start early out here on the left coast. 10 am!  This is seriously cramping my habitual Sunday morning blogging routine! I’m only part way kidding. But I cannot miss an inning of our revamped “all-in” edition of the Jays so...
Love Like Rain

Love Like Rain

One of my favourite authors, Paulo Coelho, wrote “Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples in a soaking joy.” A romantic, and truly lovely view of rain (and of course, love). I cannot think of a more beautiful, magical sentence, can you? I...
“Hope Springs Eternal” – Alexander Pope

“Hope Springs Eternal” – Alexander Pope

In An Essay On Man, Alexander Pope writes Hope springs eternal in the human breast Man never is, but always will be blessed: The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. There is always hope!  While passing through beautiful Hope,...
Four Years of Vagabonding

Four Years of Vagabonding

I was reminded this week of an anniversary. Four years ago this month I began writing to you here as the Vagabond Photographer! At the time, I never really thought about the why’s or when’s of blogging. Indeed I am quite surprised that I kept a fairly...