Le P’tite Train du Nord
At the beginning of the month, we went off for a weekend to Mont Tremblant, a mountain resort about 85 miles/135km north-west of Montreal in the Laurentian mountains (a.k.a.… [Read More]
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Dandelions (Taraxacum officinale) are one of those plants that people generally either hate or scarcely notice at all. While they produce cheerful yellow flowers and “puffballs” of floating seeds that fascinate young and old, for some reason they’re stereotypically the scourge of The Great North American Lawn.… [Read More]
There is a mystery on the streets of our neighborhood. It involves stop signs.
I thought I’d discussed stop signs in a posting in some prior year, but couldn’t find it, so first, let’s talk a little about them (if you don’t want to nerd out on this topic, skip down to the pictures below).… [Read More]
Some things in the botanical garden change dramatically from week to week. Other things do not.
Here are some pictures. Compare to last week!
Remember the tulip field?This next one, we looked at from a different angle last week, but it’s the same magnolia tree.… [Read More]
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Springing
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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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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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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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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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]
Sadly, this post is late. The experiences in question happened during the Olympics, and would have been so much more appropriate to post then. But such is life.
I’d gone many times to Île Sainte Hélène, but I’d never been to the other island that includes portions of Parc Jean-Drapeau: Île Notre-Dame.… [Read More]