I must say, this one doesn’t look particularly hungry!
“Please don’t feed the deer”
09 Tuesday Dec 2014
Category Archives: montreal
We will never forget
08 Monday Dec 2014
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canada, commemmoration, memorial, montreal, park, Polytechnique, quebec
To the little girl in the pink jacket, the little patch of raised stone adorned with metallic shapes was just something else at the park for her to play with.
As she gingerly balanced herself, her mother extended a guiding hand and gently scolded her: “You can’t walk on that.”
The girl couldn’t have been older than five, couldn’t have known what her mom knew. It wasn’t any old structure in any old park on any other day.
The bits of metal spelled out Hélène Colgan, the letters adorning one of 14 stone markers for 14 young women, victims of a massacre at the University of Montreal’s École Polytechnique in 1989.
Saturday, Dec. 6, marked a quarter century since this horrific act of violence.
The little girl and her family were among many who passed through this long, narrow memorial park just a stone’s throw from the university.
Flowers and candles paid silent tribute to so many lives lost far too soon.
The elegance of utilities
07 Sunday Dec 2014
Posted in montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
Downtown Montreal seen from Mount Royal Lookout
03 Wednesday Dec 2014
Posted in montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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canada, lookout, montreal, night, panorama, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban, viewpoint
This is a classic Montreal viewpoint. I’d never been as an adult — and drawing on my (admittedly dusty) recollections from my youth, it’s quite possible I’d never seen Montreal from here at all until now.
Massive hulk rising
01 Monday Dec 2014
Posted in architecture, montreal, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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canada, Chinatown, CUSM, hospital, montreal, night, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban
Now *that’s* different!
It was utterly shocking to turn a corner in Montreal’s Chinatown and see the new University of Montreal hospital complex (Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal) rising high where there used to be only sky. I’ve seen it slowly built on my visits over the years but this is the first time the structure’s seemed so in-your-face.
The building is clearly going to dwarf the entire neighbourhood around it. (For the sake of perspective, I was a bit shy of 500 metres from the building when I snapped this shot.)
There’s a website for the new hospital, en français bien sûr!
Someone doesn’t want to pay their ticket …
30 Sunday Nov 2014
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City view (Part 7)
14 Saturday Jun 2014
Posted in iPhone, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
Game of shadows
28 Friday Mar 2014
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art, canada, fine arts, iPhoneography, montreal, museum, photography, quebec, Travel
One of the exhibits at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Another cheesy post
23 Sunday Mar 2014
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Talking fish
04 Tuesday Mar 2014
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canada, montreal, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, street art, Travel, urban
Recently spotted this … eclectic door on rue Rachel in Montreal, not too far from Jeanne-Mance Park.
Ricky Leong 