June 2000 — In the picture above, taken twenty six years ago, this cottage in Vesuvius Bay on Salt Spring Island was covered with roses. Today, in the bottom picture taken last month, it’s a tear down, uninhabitable, a fire trap.
Category: Salt Spring Island
Flower bed
From my archives. September 2002 — A bedstead becomes a flower bed at the corner of Sunset Drive and Vesuvius Bay Road, Salt Spring Island.
It grows back
May 14th, 2026 — The Channel Ridge housing development on Salt Spring Island as it looks today overgrown with scotch broom and other weeds, and below, as it looked 22 years ago; logged bare and made ready for construction that never really began.
Stone wall
April 11th, 2026 — Stone wall on Leisure Lane, Salt Spring Island.
Algae bloom
April 10th, 2026 — A giant red algae bloom, sometimes confused as a red tide, at Vesuvius Beach on Salt Spring Island.
Snow drops
February 12th, 2026 — Snow drops on a stairway to Vesuvius Beach, Salt Spring Island.
Duck Creek
December 4th, 2025 — Duck Creek Park, Saltspring Island.
Swimming in the rain
October 10th, 2025 — The water’s too cold for her dog but not for her; Vesuvius Beach, Salt Spring Island, in the rain.
Apples
September 28th, 2025 — The Salt Spring Island Apple festival at Fulford Hall had 566 varieties of apples on display; all of them grown on the island.
Cottage
August 31st, 2025 — Abandoned cottage on Bayview Road, Saltspring Island.