Those of you who know me well know that I’m a lifelong allergy sufferer.
I’m not talking about your seasonal hayfever or getting sneezy around cats. I’ve been gifted—whether through nature or nurture is unclear—with full-on potentially fatal reactions to food additives, OTC pain relievers, particulates, and more.… [Read More]
We admit it: we’ve been buying some convenience food here and there to keep on hand when we’re not up to cooking (and that came in handy when we had la grippe last week).… [Read More]
The Village’s main drag (as it were) rue Ste-Catherine Est, in this morning’s rain. We’re seeing more terrasses and more rainbows as the street preps for Montréal Pride in August.
Sylvain noticed the other day that the planter boxes were arranged so their flowers were in rainbow-color order from red to purple, with pink at the end.… [Read More]
Yesterday when I finally ventured out of our building for the first time since we got la grippe, this wooden box was on the sidewalk right outside the lobby door:
That little flower symbol on the left is the logo of the City of Montréal, so I was intrigued.… [Read More]
Our apartment balcony faces a ruelle, a little street that’s pedestrian-only. It’s bordered by grass and trees, and mostly pleasant, except on the weekends when it becomes a pissoir for soused and screaming partyers (or, as the French so aptly say, les fêtards).… [Read More]
Our building has a magical front door. It is secured by spells and enchantments, and poses a riddle to any who would enter: they must punch a mystical sequence of numbers into a graven metal keypad.… [Read More]
While in the post office mailing some documents back home (cross-border mail is incredibly slow, btw) we saw these Canada Post special commemorative coins for 2022. They have coins for birthdays, weddings, congrats, polar bears, and other stuff.… [Read More]
So, despite all of our caution and rigorous masking in public, we got temporarily floored by some nasty bug. Fever, headache, GI stuff … the lot (sorry if that’s TMI). Repeated COVID tests came up negative, so who knows?… [Read More]
The pictures I’ve posted here thus far have primarily emphasized the older aspects of Montréal: cathedralesque stone churches, ornate house façades, and historic parks. Montréal feels like a much older place than Los Angeles1.… [Read More]
Should I be in third or fifth arabesque when I fall through the ice? This sign at Parc Angrignon makes it hard to tell.
