T.L. Morrisey

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Sunday, July 4, 2021

The garden on July 2, 2021

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Echinacea or coneflowers Bee balm Day lilies Snowball hydrangea on the left, hostas in the foreground and background; this bird bath has giv...
Friday, July 2, 2021

A Canadian Cottage Garden

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My plan is to write about gardening here, it is one of the activities where I find real happiness. There is a lot of happiness seeing birds ...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

"I Years had been from Home" by Emily Dickinson

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Childhood home, 4614 Oxford Avenue, Montreal I Years had been from Home And now before the Door I dared not enter, lest a Face I never saw b...
Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Bishop's University honours Noni Howard

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Irving Layton, Carolyn Zonailo, and Noni Howard, at Layton`s home on Monkland Avenue, Montreal, 1997. Photo by Stephen Morrissey      Bishop...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Some Notes on E.K. Brown

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E.K. Brown, a study in conflict,  Laura Smyth Groening,  U niversity of Toronto Press (1993) A while ago I read Laura Smyth Groenin...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

The demise of Zellers Department Store

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I used to go to stores to buy things, it was really easy and we had many different stores, for instance Zellers in the Alexis Nihon Plaza. ...
Friday, May 21, 2021

Return to the Village Shopping Plaza

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I often walk by the Village Shopping Plaza on Cote St-Luc Road, it has grown more and more derelict; next door is the now closed Robert Burn...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Farewell Vincelli's Garden Centre

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Farewell Vincelli's Garden Centre, they're gonna build a 250 unit condo complex on this land. It's Vincelli's land so they c...