Rosa 'Emily Carr' 30 June 2025 - Illustration by Graham Walker

The luckiest moment of my life, besides having been born was to spot, from the back, that woman with straight blond hair in a mini skirt and with legs to rival my mother’s. It was sometime in mid December 1967 in Mexico City. A month and a few days later we were married in Coyoacán, Mexico City. We had two children and in 1975 she strongly persuaded me that Mexico was not a place for our young daughters to grow up in. We were to move in our VW Beetle to Vancouver, British Columbia. By 1977 I was an established magazine photographer and between the both of us we manged to buy and move to a house with a large corner garden in 1986. I now live in little house in Kitsilano. I share it with two brother and sister cats. Rosemary died on December 9, 2020. I am financially stable thanks to Rosemary’s handling of our funds.

Through the years I worked with editors, art directors and graphic designers. One in particular is Graham Walker. Together we did quite a few brochures. We frequent avant-garde concerts and those of baroque music.

A few days ago he sent me his lovely design to celebrate Canada Day tomorrow. I decided to do collaboration by scanning my Morden Manitoba 2007 introduction of Rosa ‘Emily Carr’.

This blog is in memory of that woman who was my wife, Rosemary  and a celebration that with the turmoil in our world now, I live in the right place because of her.