Two of the many Christmas trees I’ve spotted this season, both of these from my recent trip to Montreal.
The one above is barely 10 centimetres tall … the one below is more like 10 metres!
Perspective is everything
27 Saturday Dec 2014
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Light up the night
18 Thursday Dec 2014
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Snippet of Quebec history
17 Wednesday Dec 2014
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Hey, four-eyes!
16 Tuesday Dec 2014
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All over Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal, from the more-than-life-size wall art on Boul. Saint-Laurent, above, to the little stickers seen on buildings on and around Ave. du Mont-Royal, below, are four-eyed figures with short messages for passersby.
Colours of the season
12 Friday Dec 2014
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Shut up and eat!
10 Wednesday Dec 2014
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Who am I to argue? 🙂
“Please don’t feed the deer”
09 Tuesday Dec 2014
We will never forget
08 Monday Dec 2014
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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
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Downtown Montreal seen from Mount Royal Lookout
03 Wednesday Dec 2014
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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.
Ricky Leong 