We made our first visit to the Jardin Botanique this year, and to paraphrase William Gibson: spring has arrived, it’s just not even distributed. (As always, click on pictures to see ’em biggish).… [Read More]
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Springing
Author: Sylvain Descartes
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Resuming (and trees)
We’re getting settled in, which involves getting oriented in a newish-to-us neighborhood . We’re in Rosemont again, but about 2.5km/1.5miles from where we were last time. We’ve found a good old-school pizza and poutine joint, the closest bike share point, some nice parks, and the bus stop.… [Read More]
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Season 4, Episode 1
Will be airing soon!
We’ve arrived and moved into our place on the north-east edge of Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie. Stay tuned for more developments!
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Saturation
Manon headed back to California last weekend, and I’ve been gradually wrapping things up here too. Part of that process is saying à bientôt to the parcs and forests and the Jardin Botanique.… [Read More]
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Josef K. Parks a Car
Warning: long, long rant ahead…
The time has come to pack up some boxes and start nudging the orbit back towards southern California. But if you have a few large boxes you want to stash somewhere in the city, you need a means of transporting them.… [Read More]
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Comix
Many, many years ago, when Sylvain was visiting relatives in Indianapolis, one of his cousins gave him a copy of a Mad Magazine publication* that he was too young to understand.… [Read More]
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A World of Dreams and Wonder
Manon and I have a weekly ritual to bike over to the Jardin Botanique where we wander around, admire the seasonal plantings, look at wildlife, and have a coffee or lunch in the café.… [Read More]
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Mount Royal
It’s raining again today, so instead of going walking I put together a video from my walk on Labo(u)r Day.
I took a lot of video of bees and mushrooms and moss and things that I wanted to include, but even without all that, this is a bit too long at two minutes and eleven seconds.… [Read More]
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Autumn Approacheth
The weather has been chaotic this year. We’ve had repeated heat waves and a lot of rain. In fact, this has been the wettest summer on record (although when you read they only started tracking in 1942, it’s a lot less impressive than the headline suggests).… [Read More]
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A Local Landmark
In 1926, in far-off California, some dude by the name of Julius Freed opened up an orange juice stand. According to Wikipedia, in ’29, an associate named Bill Hamlin came up with a recipe that added ice, sweetener, milk, vanilla flavoring, and egg white to make the beverage tastier and less acidic.… [Read More]