A Rainbow of Colour

The colours of Pride Month are prolific in Victoria -- both conscious acknowledgements of Pride, and unconscious revelry in the joy of colour. 

I received feedback that people liked my May post on colourful art, so this is a reprise, looking at the amazing homage to colour that I see everywhere in this city. 

In front of the Empress Hotel, earlier this month

Steps to the Lutheran church on Fort Street

First Metropolitan United Church. This photo was taken in 2021.

A house in James Bay with an urban farm, owned by Chris and Susannah Adams

And now, to a few commercial buildings with wonderful splashes of colour. 

Bastion Square shop

Smoking Lily storefront

Friends of Dorothy Restaurant and Lounge, Johnson Street. I didn't know the reason for the name "Friends of Dorothy" until I did the research for this post. The term dates back to World War I, and was code for "are you gay?" There is a great short CHEK news video about Friends of Dorothy, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGUjiRON-As

Window reflection from a restaurant on Oswego Street

Johnson Street shop

The Paper Box Building on Johnson Street

Colourful exterior at a bike shop on Pandora

In this post I'm focussong more on public, rather than private, examples of colour, but I can't ignore the vibrant rainbows of colours in James Bay. Here is a small sampling.

St. Lawrence Street home

Superior Street house

A recently repainted house near me, on Rithet Street

An apartment building on Cook Street, in the neighbouring community of Fairfield. This building was also repainted within the last year or so. While this one sticks to one bright colour -- it is a bright colour indeed!

I've devoted a few posts in the last few years to murals. I'll include a only couple of examples here.

Downtown mural by Nicole Majcher

Mural on the side of the Trees Cannabis building, Fort Street. "In the Trees".

Africa Fest, at the end of May, was setting up when I walked through Centennial Square.

Detail from one of the Orca Whale sculptures located around Victoria. This one is in the Inner Harbour

Full depiction of an orca sculpture. This one is at a hotel along Wharf Street.

Detail from another Orca, this one on Quadra Street

Decorated "pop-up" piano on Willows Beach in Oak Bay. This photo was from last September; the piano was in place for three months last summer, by Oak Bay Recreation. The words on the piano are Oak Bay's motto, meaning "Good fortune under the oaks" in Latin

Another decorated "pop-up" piano, also from Willows Beach, Oak Bay, last September.

Colourful mini park, called a "parklet". This one was created by replacing several parking stalls along Fort Street with this infrastructure. It separates the cycling lanes, on the left, from the vehicles lanes on the right.

And, for my last image in this post -- a unique Canada Post van painted with bold colours. 

Seen on Dallas Road in March - a cheerful splash of colour on a grey day.  Although this was the first time I have seen a truck with the design, apparently they started rolling out in March 2021 to recognize the front line workers in Canada Post who kept the mail going during the early months of the pandemic.