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]
In Mont Royal park, there are fireflies! I haven’t seen them there in past years.
On social media, folks are saying they’ve never seen it like this before.
Doesn’t do them justice…(Try clicking on the “full screen” button on the video for a more immersive experience).
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]
Rocks found in Quebec are possibly the oldest on earth, formed around 4.16 billion years ago during the first days of Earth’s geologic formation (you know, back when the planet was all volcano-y and melty and stuff).… [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]
Nature
It was cold and rainy when we were at Mount Tremblant. Well, “cold” — it ranged between 8C and 15C (46ºF to 60ºF). As mentioned in Part 1, this was actually a good thing, as it kept away the mosquitos.… [Read More]
The Resort
The eponymous mountain is one of the tallest in the Laurentians, with an elevation of 932m (3,058 ft). The Algonquin name for the mountain is Manitonga Soutana, usually translated into English as the “Mountain of Spirits.”… [Read More]
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]
Even in the frantic news cycle of late, you may have seen reports of the wildfires in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia.
Scientists blame climate change for the increase in wildfires.… [Read More]
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]
