Maximilian Sunflower (Helianthus maximiliani), Texas, 1993

Maximilian Sunflower (Helianthus maximiliani), Texas, 1993. Named after Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, a German prince and naturalist who travelled in North America in the 19th Century and catalogued many plants, and recorded the lives of native peoples.

 

Happy Hair

Happy, Texas 1993. Happy Hair, now closed but was on 200 E Main, which is the same building the post office is in. I spoke with the mayor of this town of a few hundred people. Very friendly older woman, probably did everything for the town. Happy is shrinking - losing 10% population a year due to water shortages. Much of downtown is boarded up.

 

CN Tower and Tulip Tree

Street with tulip tree in bloom, CN tower, Toronto, Ontario, 1997

 

Viking Polaris going downstream, 12.30 pm, July 7, 2026

 

Viking Polaris going downstream, 12.30 pm, July 7, 2026

Ray Davies, c. 1994

Ray Davies reading from his autobiography 'X-Ray' c. 1994, Toronto. He talked about driving through a desert in America with someone with a phone in their car in the 60s or 70s, and the driver, who he wouldn't name, picking up the phone, talking rudely to someone, then hanging up and telling Davies that was Elvis.

 

Young Cancer victim at RCMP Musical Ride

c.1994. She had a form of leukemia and in order to cure her, doctors had to destroy her bone marrow and replace it with donated marrow. The odds were against her, but she made a recovery, and this is her a few months after treatment at an RCMP Musical Ride.

 

Big pants at the fire

Fire somewhere in Ontario, 1990s. Some kids really did wear pants with the crotch a few inches above their ankles