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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Saturday, December 18, 2021

There is a nobility to these trees, standing solitary on this golf course; their presence is as though guarding this land. Where is the nobility of man? It is not often visible these days. Only a few hundred feet away the last above ground section of the St. Pierre River is being buried.

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

The garden's progress

July 2021

You can transform a backyard into an oasis of flowers, a place of life and beauty. If you plant flowers then insects and birds will visit your garden; you can transform your backyard from barren and empty to full of life. Put out a bird bath and birds will come, the bird bath is their invitation and with them they bring life and love. The birds will thank you with their presence. They are like children, expect nothing in return and make the garden a place they want to visit. This is the gardener's expression of love. This seems a wonderful thing to do, at least that's what I think. Here are some photographs of the garden's progress, it is my Canadian cottage garden, and the year in which the photograph was taken is below the photograph.

July 2021

June 2013

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Flowering Trees in May 2021

Perhaps it has something to do with a fairly mild winter, but this is one of the best years for flowering trees.

Saturday, July 11, 2020

Walking to Meadowbrook Golf Course

I've deleted a rant and substituted the following more reasoned and watered down commentary: most of the trees on this stretch of Cote St. Luc Road have been cut down, this is the road that ends at Meadowbrook Golf Course. The town of Cote St. Luc is about as soulless a suburb as you can find so no wonder they've destroyed this last bit of country-like area; developers won't rest until they've built condos on every square inch of land. There were alternatives to cutting down trees in this area, the best would have been to just leave things as they were. I am not convinced by the signs warning people of falling trees, or if the branch of a tree did fall then does that warrant cutting down most of the trees in this area? Well, folks, we'll see if they plant a single tree for every tree they've cut down which is what they said was their plan.

Now compare the road as it was with my photographs of what it looks like now:

Here is Google Street View over a twelve year period, 2007 to 2019: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4564534,-73.6684001,3a,75y,208.22h,94.22t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sY1druHKghkiV9eiUA42kKQ!2e0!5s20070901T000000!7i3328!8i1664

Here is the road today:

Sunday, November 4, 2018

An Inventory of Trees

Out most mornings for a walk, I noticed these trees about five years ago. Then I began photographing them, they were too interesting not to photograph. They are located on the corner of Brock North and Fielding Avenue. Here is a selection of my photographic inventory of trees.