now before it starts to snow
it's time for us to pack and go
Category: Only in Montréal
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Look Sharp!
It’s a summery day in Montreal, and this morning during my coffee break I heard the tinny digital chimes of what I presumed was an ice cream truck coming down our street.… [Read More]
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The Deedle-Eedle Truck
(or, “Wakey Wakey, Mfers!”)
Sylvain and I have long heard legends of the snow removal siren–an eardrum-crushing klaxon that sends Montrealers staggering into the street to move their cars before the tow-trucks and snowplows come through.… [Read More]
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Arboriculture
I haven’t written much about Parc Maisonneuve, the giant park that neighbors the botanical gardens and is a short walk from our apartment.
Aerial view via Google Earth… for scale, those two intersections at the top left and top right are 1km apart (0.62 miles)It’s a funny old place.… [Read More]
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Le Rêve
What’s this? Emerging from the Mont Royal metro station, we countered a line for this installation.
Naturally, we had to discover our dreams!
It’s not the library that’s offering us a dreamAfter waiting in line for a short while, we got to a machine where we could place our hand upon the cutout.… [Read More]
Three years ago, I wrote about parks in Montreal. Not only are there a lot of parks here, but they vary considerably in size, resources, and other qualities.
Within a kilometer or two of where we’re living in the Rosemont arrondissement, there are several tiny parks (Parc Raymond Lévesque, an unnamed park on Rue de Tonty, and Parc de la Cité Jardin) , three or four big parks (Parc Joseph Paré, Parc Sainte-Bernadette, Parc Étienne-Desmarteau, and Parc de la Louisiane), and one massive park (Parc Maisonneuve).… [Read More]
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The Best Scone I’ve Ever Had…
Came from this place–La Brume.comptoir. It’s not the main cafe, but this little tiny counter tucked away among warehouses and factories on Rue Fullum in Rosemont.
(I’m sorry I don’t have photos of either the cafe or the scone, so I will describe as best I can.)… [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]
Yup, that’s us (apparently)
It seems that when you live in a certain place, you become the default consultants for tourism in that place. People contact you, sometimes on behalf of people you don’t even know, wanting to hear about the best restaurants or most exciting local experiences or whether the weather is weathering, etc.… [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]