Cabot Tower

Signal Hill

It was an almost magical, perfect afternoon up on Signal Hill. Chilly, mind you, but lovely. We headed up to find a geocache and I took the camera and tripod along for the ride. The clouds were fluffy and full and the place was crawling with people. It was gorgeous, though. We have a couple…

Any port….

March can be a tricky month in which to find colour in these parts. It’s rather like November in that regard, being dull and drab and not quite one season or another. We took advantage of a rare flash of sunshine yesterday afternoon to walk around downtown and along the harbour apron. I liked the…

The sisters

There are four houses in St. John’s called the Temperance Street Houses (or Samuel Garrett Houses, depending on whom you ask) that were built by Garrett as wedding gifts for his four daughters. They were lovely structures, built of stone left over from the construction of Cabot Tower and a local hospital that had been…

We took a wander up Signal Hill this evening to celebrate a friend’s birthday because nothing says, “We love you,” more than dragging someone out into the North Atlantic wind in January at night on the top of a hill in the dark. I’ve photographer Cabot Tower and Signal Hill more times than I can…