Walking to Meadowbrook Golf Course in mid-August

 

Walking to Meadowbrook Golf Course in September 2012

I took these photographs twelve years ago and there have been changes to this short walk to the golf course; trees adjacent to the road have been cut down (I don't see any newly planted trees as they claimed they were going to do). More people are playing golf here than ever. There are more dog walkers and a dog run for people with dogs. Some people on bicycles, but not many. And the rest of us are walkers, walking because we like it and for health reasons. Compare these photographs from 2012 to previous August 2023 walk to Meadowbrook Golf Course.

The Canadian Cottage Garden, end of July 2023

 

It is just as I wanted it to be. To sit in the garden, surrounded by flowers, and on a hot summer day to have insects, wild bees, and butterflies going from flower to flower, busy with their work of pollination and collecting pollen and nectar. 

The hidden trail

 The joy of being in nature.

A Canadian Cottage Garden, late July 2023

 

"Leisure" by William Henry Davies

Families at leisure on Fletcher's Field, now known as Parc
Jeanne-Mance, in the early 1900s

 

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

A visit to the Spanish and Portuguese cemetery

The Corporation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews is the oldest Jewish institution in Montreal, in Quebec and in Canada. It traces its history back to the first Jewish settlers who began to arrive in 1760. The few families met for prayer in private homes until the Congregation was formally established in 1768. In 1993 there were an ongoing series of celebrations to mark the 225th anniversary. The Congregation is as old as Quebec itself.

From  The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue website