Welcome to the Wet Coast

For all of our green gardens and lush wilderness, we sometimes feel a bit grumpy on the Pacific Coast when it's supposed to be summer and it's raining...AGAIN. This is a hasty photo I took while racing through Waddington Alley, but the rain puddling on the wooden paving blocks was just too lovely not to stop and admire. Here is another post on the same subject from Benjamin Madison, and much to my chagrin, his photo, posted in August of 2008, also shows Waddington Alley looking very damp. -Fern

Autumn Winds

Waddington Alley's wood block paving glistens on a wild and windy afternoon. While I was taking this photo I heard a crash behind me as a gust of wind blew my bike over.

Theme Day for August: Metal

The City Daily Photo Blog theme for August 1 is "metal." Now what might look like a fairly depressing picture, taken yesterday, is actually a little bit of history. This is the sidewalk in Waddington Alley, one of Victoria's oldest streets. Look closely at the "pavement" and you will see it is actually made of wood blocks, a fairly common road building material in 1908. Today's photo theme, "metal," here is the curb, which has a heavy iron edge to it. Waddington Alley used to get a lot of carriage traffic and carriages had iron-clad wheels. To protect the curb from these wheels, the curb was sheathed in iron also.

Many other City Daily Photo Bloggers have posted on this theme today. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants