Down by the waterfront the other day, to the west of the Steam Museum and the east of the Murney Point Martello. The Kingston Yacht Club and its more than a century old club house sits among some of the nicer older homes in town, some of which are rebuilt 1840s warehouses.

Santa Claus parade in a downpour after dark. The four-year old had enough sense to ask to get out of the rain before the old red soaked stuffed rinsecloth drove by. It is better to listen to Nirvana and Jethro Tull in a car parked in a Canadian Tire parking lot than to stand in the rain. I know …

I get a kick as you may have gathered about learning about a whole bunch of aspects of the life and the history of the City. This week I go to to walk around this room late on an autumn afternoon with the yellow sunlight coming in low from the west. These are the original two steam pumps from the …

Hunting for some authority for my claims on colonial constitutions, I came across these two photos of 1860s Kingston on the web site for the national Library and Archives of Canada. I am fairly sure I know where each of these are, the one on the right being King Street West a couple of blocks west …

The low angle of the November sun at 9:00 am lit up St. George's Anglican, newly through the restoration of its front entrance. I've written about St. George's before here, here, and here.  •  Click for a bigger view.

Chef Q. Tran and Co., K' Street, K'town  •  The best thing for a frozen day. Not fancy. Menu on the wall and you drink out of styrofoam. Chef Tran was trained by Mr. Vann I think. Mr. Tran makes a Western Style that is not so explosively hot...though I suspect Chef Vann's up at Cambodiana is more …

One of the oddest thing about the downtown Remembrance Day services is that they were plural. One is held at City Park with an artillery piece, one at a navy memorial on Ontario Street and the big one on Water Street by the martello at Murney Point. I caught the navy officers in the first photo …

I often wonder at some of the incidental buildings of Kingston, the repurposed. This one just up Queens street from St. Paul's Anglican always catches my eye. The porch's roofline is very Quebec and I wonder if it was some sort of roadhouse when it was first built. It is listed in the Ontario …

I was actually thinking about these the other day and where kids now pick up their copies of Spidyman. They are gone from cornerstores and drug stores. This one is in the Indigo bookstore on Princess Street.