Saturday Photo: Stars…
Season’s Greetings, and all that. Here’s a link to my Christmas blog, in which there is much about stars…including the sun. https://soderstromyule.blogspot.com/
Mary Soderstrom
Saturday Photo: Ice Doesn’t Reflect
Maybe you knew this, but I didn't. Ice doesn't reflect the same way that waer does. This morning at the Lachine Rapids, it was chilly and windy, but the terempuerature…
Saturday Photo: Ice Doesn’t Reflect
Maybe you knew this, but I didn’t. Ice doesn’t reflect the same way that waer does. This morning at the Lachine Rapids, it was chilly and windy, but the terempuerature…
Saturday Photo: Winter Wonderland
Great snow for sledding this week. A shame it is raining now, but for a while the kids (most of whose teachers are on strike) had a lot of opportunity…
Saturday Photo: Winter Flowers
One of the sadder things about winter here is the disappearance of flowers. After the leaves have changed colour and fallen off the trees, the world is much drabber. And…
Saturday Photo: Good for 500 Years?
Where Canada keeps its memories: Took a trip to Gatineau to lend a hand during the current teachers’ strike, but I also visited the Preservation facility of the Library and…
Saturday Photo: Visit to the Reserve
A little outing Friday to the Musée des Abénakis in Odanak on the St-François river. Very interesting, and afterwards lunch at Café Masko.
Saturday Photo: Early Snow…
Snow this week, the second flurry of the year. My birthday is November 8, and last year was the first year since I arrived in Montreal decades ago that it…
Saturday Photo: Showing off at Concordia…
Great fun at the Read Quebec Book Fair. Got to show off my books and talk to some interesting follks. The event was held both Friday and Saturday in the…
Saturday Photo: A Forests of Light
The way it was in the forest on the north side of Mount Royal this week. The warm weather in September seems to have delayed the trees’ gorgeous progression into…
Saturday Photo: And a Cardinal in a Grape Vine
Well, you can’t see it, but this week a female cardinal visited our grape vine several mornings to feast on the wild grapes growing there. It was a bad year…
Saturday Photo: More Than the Squirrels Can Eat
A shower of crabapples! Went for a walk in Mount Royal Cemetery this morning to find that the squirrels and other critters have an abundance of goodies on the ground…
Saturday Photo: Thanksgiving Greetings from Montreal
Happy Thanksgiving weekend, everyone. It’s raining here–and much needed–but this is the way I like to think of fall. It’s a good moment to stop and reflect on all one…
Just in Case You Wondered What I’ve Been Reading…
I’ve been asked by a couple of websites that gives suggestions for reading to create a list or two. Here’s the one on BookList:
Saturday Photo: Asters to Finish up the Summer
This has been an unusually fine year for certain flowers around here. Early on there was clover everywhere, in every lawn, reminding everyone that plain grass is just that: pretty…
Saturday Photo: More Housing…
And then there’s this highrise model.
Saturday Photo: More Permanent Housing
This wasp nest suddenly appeared this week. Wasn’t there on Monday, I’m sure, but it was looming like a malevalent piñata on Thursday. Wasps are really amazing in the way…
Saturday Photo: Temporary Housing?
You’re right: it’s bird’s nest. Almost walked past it last week on the trail at the Parc des Rapides de Lachine last Sunday, but at the last minute it caught…
Saturday Photos: Hotline, a Very Good Novel Now Available in Audio and Ebook Formats
Head’s up: The Atwater Library and Computer Centre’s book discussion group–led by yours truly– will be talking about Dimitri Nasrallah’s Hotline at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 13. The book in…
Saturday Photo: The Battle of the Invasives
Here are three invasive plants duking it out at Montreal’s Technoparc. The tall grass is Phragmites australis, which sets up shop at the edge of waterways as does the purple…