Easter decorations!

A family on Chester Avenue and Montclair Avenue make the neighbourhood more friendly and attractive by decorating their home each holiday season. Last Christmas a crowd of school children, on their way home from school, walked among the Christmas decorations; they were having a great time! Now it's Easter, a time of rebirth, renewal, and revisioning life.

Top photographs taken on 08 March 2024.

About 20 children from a local daycare had a great time today at this Easter display (on 27 March 2024). after they left I took the following photos:   

    

A spring day, 28 March in 2013 and 2024

 

Winter is too long here in Montreal. It's almost April and the snow has just melted, some plants are beginning to grow; spring has arrived but it feels like winter is still here. One month less of this would be perfect. Top photos taken in 2013, bottom photos this year on 27 March 2024:

Late March 2009

 Photos taken on Atwater Avenue under the Ville Marie Expressway. 

Bended tree on 09 March 2013

 

St. Matthew`s Anglican Church

Here are photographs of St. Matthew's Anglican Church that I attended as a child. (Located on Macdonald Avenue, just off Cote St. Luc Road in Montreal.) Everyone seems to have a complaint about something these days, especially religion,  but I have no complaints about St. Matthew's or about the Anglican Church of Canada; I was always treated with kindness and respect. Reverend Canon Stanley Andrews officiated at my father's funeral when I was a child and he gave my mother good advice about financial matters: banking rules at the time would have deprived her of whatever money our family had because bank accounts were in the husband's name. Reverend Andrew's advice was practical and helpful, it was to take whatever money we had out of the bank accounts before the bank froze the accounts.  In those days, the 1950s, Anglican churches in Montreal had dances for young people at the church. The last time I attended a service here, it was Christmas in 2007, the congregation had dwindled to about a dozen people. I didn't know at the time that it was the last service I would attend there. 

Photographs taken around 1957, outside the side door which is also pictured in a later photograph; other photos taken from the late 1990s to around 2017.

This view was lost when a condo building was constructed in the foreground;
the condobuilding is under construction here

                       

Above, around 2005

My mother, recently widowed.

My mother and I. 

Above, around 1957-1958

                                                   

                                                   

17 March 2017

22 July 2015

The Montreal Gazette, 14 May 2011