Photographs taken after reading at Cafe Sarajevo on 12 October 2011

I was part of a group poetry reading at Cafe Sarajevo, located at 6548 Blvd. St-Laurent, on 12 Oct 2011; after the reading I took these photographs of store windows across the street from the reading venue. 

 

St. Augustine Catholic Church, 11 April 2011

I remember when I attended St, Augustine Catholic Church, it was for my grandmother's funeral. I can remember the approximate date, it was 26 April 1965, the day before my fifteenth birthday. But I don't remember going to the cemetery for the burial, one forgets so many things and wonders "where was I?" "what was I doing?" “ why didn't I go?" "who was I with?" There must have been other funerals that day, my grandmother's casket was one of several and I remember the priest who officiated. This was the church of my Auntie Mabel; she died in 1960. My grandmother was Protestant and never went to church, she could marry my Catholic grandfather on the condition that she raise the children as Catholics, but on Sunday mornings she said her boys needed their sleep and most of her children were nominal Catholics and married Protestants. 

It was an Irish Catholic church.

 

Phillips Square across from The Bay, March 26, 2011

Just announced: The Hudson's Bay Company is going out of business, closing all but six stores. These photographs taken from The Bay’s downtown Montreal store across the street from Philips Square. Update: all Hudson Bay stores have now permanently closed.

30 December 2011, downtown Montreal

 

Restaurant Julien

The Bay in the distance

At The Bay

At The Bay

Phillips Square and The Bay on the left 

Alexis Nihon Plaza, 20 October 2011

This reminds me, when my mother worked at the Sir George Williams University library 
(Concordia University as of 1974), she used to stop on her way home and have something to eat
at this snack bar; strange irrelevant memories that return to one 

Lots of people still miss Zellers, a discount shopping store; they always had
quality items; that era is gone now although The Bay, that now owns Zellers,
has made part of some of their stores "Zellers"

 

Driving home from work on 28 September 2011