A walk in NDG (one)

Here we are, walking on a winter day in Notre Dame de Grace. Quebec may be the most secular place in North America, but there are still many examples of religious symbolism. The presence of the numinous in everyday life helps us connect with the divine. I have tried to show evidence of this, of manifestations of spirit in everyday life, among everyday people, in these "walks in NDG." Society can try to repress spirit, make those who adhere in spirit look ignorant and old-fashioned, but spirit surfaces in its important psychic role in our lives, spirit has an archetypal role in life that cannot be repressed for long before it emerges in some new and relevant form. This street is a few blocks from where I live. It is January 2011.

The Motel Raphael today...

Someone had big plans to build on the site of the old Motel Raphael, just off Highway 2 & 20, the St. Jacques exit. Anywhere else this may have been a good plan, location, traffic, proximity to other buisnesses, it all seemed idea, but it seems to have fizzled out here in Montreal. The Motel Raphael was a fixture in this area of the city, a low cost motel... Photo taken in January 2011.

Decarie Square (two)

Decarie Square is home to various stores, a Winners, Sear's Warehouse, a motor vehicle bureau, a big Corrections Canada parole office, a two dollar cinema, various rug and carpet stores, and so on, assuming these stores haven't closed by now. It is just off the Decarie Expressway, and is worth a visit. Most people think of this as a failed shopping mall, failed probably because of its location and the changing demographics of the area. 

Decarie Square (one)

Transcendence (2)

This scultpure, "Transcendence," by Jack Harman is located on the campus of 

the University of British Columbia, outside of what used to be the faculty club.

Transcendence (1)

Located on the Loyola campus of Concordia University, outside of the Hingston Hall residence, is Walter Fuhrer's sculpture, "Transcendence."

Winter at Cote des Neiges