With Salt Spring’s November weather living up to it’s reputation, scene’s like this are becoming short lived.
Archives for November 2011
Garry Oaks Winery
There have been grape vines on Salt Spring Island for hundreds of years, but in the last ten to twenty years wineries have come into their own. And this is the perfect time of year to have a look.
The Face of Remembrance Day
A beautiful and telling face from the 2011 Remembrance Day ceremony on Salt Spring Island.
On a related and personal note, we recently lost our favourite veteran, Jim Green. Part of his story is in Friday’s Lives Lived column of the Globe and Mail.
Chevrolet 1420 series pickup
I saw this truck a couple of weeks ago and have been meaning to make a portrait. A foggy afternoon seemed perfect to capture the muted colours, the texture and the mood of this old workhorse put out to pasture.
It’s a Chevy 1420 series pickup, probably built in the early 1950’s. But I’ll leave that to the experts. Anyone?
Autumn afternoon on Salt Spring Island
It’s a tough job, but someone has to explore in that red kayak…