Sunday at the market

11 Sunday Mar 2012

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Marché Bonsecours in Old Montreal, this past fall.
It was very pleasant weather for mid-November. The leaves were still turning (as you can see) and there hadn’t been too much snow, if any, by the time I went on this pre-Christmas visit to my birth-city.
The stately marché is currently home to merchants who sell such things as high-end souvenirs, artisanal goods, designer clothes and jewelry. There are also a public spaces for exhibits and concerts, plus a medieval-themed restaurant on the ground floor.

Smokin!

10 Saturday Mar 2012

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Seen at Heritage Park in September 2008.

Evolving skyline

09 Friday Mar 2012

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Here’s another view of the first- and second-tallest skyscrapers in Calgary, taken back in the spring.

Life in the big city

09 Friday Mar 2012

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Boul. de Maisonneuve, Montreal, taken a few months ago.

Awestruck

08 Thursday Mar 2012

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A young kid enjoys a view of the Transamerica Pyramid from the top of the Coit Tower in San Francisco, almost two years ago.

No longer with us

07 Wednesday Mar 2012

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This is street art put up on some boarded-up windows in Curtis Block, which stood on Macleod Tr. across from the Stampede grounds in Calgary. It’s something you will never see again: The building was demolished in July 2008.

Double vision

06 Tuesday Mar 2012

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Another oldie … this one from May 2010 while on my way to Vancouver by car.
Here, I was fooling around with my pocket camera while stopped on the highway at Golden, B.C. I was waiting my turn along a stretch of alternating one-way traffic because of road construction.

Calgary at night

05 Monday Mar 2012

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The observation deck of the Calgary Tower affords a lovely view of town in good weather, as much at night as during the day. Here, we’re looking north, up Centre St.
On the right is the Bow building, still under construction but now the tallest office tower in Canada outside of Toronto.
On the left is the West Tower of the Suncor Energy Centre (formerly the Petro-Canada Centre) which holds No. 2 status for skyscraper height in Calgary.