On Côte-Ste.-Catherine, near a massive construction project in the road. Do the flowers make the parking proscriptions any easier to take?
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What makes a rue a rue? Rue de la Police, a tiny little street that runs between Guy and Pierce has no street fronts with addresses on it. Why does it merit a name? Shouldn’t it by rights be an alley? I don’t think I’ll be insulting anyone by saying that it qualifies as the ugliest street I’ve travelled so far since no one really lives on it. The Commission de toponymie, the provincial government organization responsible for managing Quebec place names has a whole paragraph on the origin of the name. It takes longer to read the description than to walk the whole length of the street. The only redeeming feature is this mural.
On Monkland, an never-ending source of curiosities, this sign came up during the street festival. Ron thinks I should go for it. Everyone needs a nude portrait of themselves.
Saw this sign on Beaconsfield Boulevard in NDG. It says that the street has been identified to participate in a pilot project to combat linden tree mites. The photo below shows the cure. Now I don’t exactly know what tying a yellow plastic shmatte around a tree trunk does to kill the little critters, but who am I to question the experts? All I know is that all of this causes me to rethink my favourite type of herbal tea, which is linden, natch. Maybe if I were to open up my tea bag, it would be full of bug wings and mandibles, not linden flowers, as advertised.
I used to have trouble with my posture, until someone watched me walk and asked me "looking for pennies?" So ever since I have stood up straight and tall and I look up, which is how I came to see these. Umbrellas in the sky on St. Denis near Emory. The annual pink balls above rue Ste. Catherine est in the Gay Village. Jardins Gamelin near Maisonneuve est.
Could someone enlighten me? What is this beam for in the middle in a row of houses? And the round structure beneath? It looks like Lucy and Ethel should be in it stomping grapes.
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