First big snowfall of the season for Victoria

The meteorologists were right about the effect of El Nina on Victoria's weather for the coming winter. The first hard snowfall at sea level started coming down on the morning of November 22, 2010. The Canadian government weather office Web site is calling this "flurries", but it looks like a solid, socked-in snowdown to me.

Uploaded "Call of the Wild Strings Take 1 Excerpt" to the Internet Archive

I've uploaded a 52-second excerpt from the first take of "Call of the Wild Strings" to the Internet Archive.

STOP ... Premier Gordon Campbell resigns ... STOP

Yes, it's true and all over the media in BC and beyond, but Premier Gordon Campbell resigned today as leader of the BC Liberal Party and has called for a leadership convention at the earliest opportunity. Here's a link to a Google News Canada search that will bring up news stories about this event.

"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" TV movie shoot in Estevan Village, evening of November 1, 2010

There was a TV movie shoot taking place on the evening of November 1, 2010 in Estevan Village, a neighborhood shopping district in the municipality of Oak Bay. The shoot was entirely confined to the barbershop. It looked to be a professional effort as there were several big trucks parked on Musgrave Avenue. There were some lights set up so the barbershop appeared as it would in daylight. Walking on the other side of the street I was practically blinded due to the angle of one set of lights.

According to a newspaper article on November 9, the shoot was for a TV movie starring Richard ("The Waltons") Thomas and titled "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" for airing on the Hallmark Channel in 2011.