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montréal

 

two autumns

and i have not

changed enough

 

(saul williams)

les feuilles

qu'on foule

un train

qui roule

la vie

s'écoule

 

(apollinaire)
COMMENTS
Pkeener said at 5:03 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
seasons come and go
time is never on our side
even the ducks know
Umauma said at 5:04 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
Love the arrangement! Montreal is such a great city for 'walkers'...Love when the cross is lit at night! Le Bistro on Mountain street in the winter!!Mulled wine with camambert on crusty roll!!!
Pkeener said at 5:13 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
i could look at that statue in the first shot all day long. i love it. you live in a very cool city. vibrant. beautiful. alive with creativity. and your tabblos always show that. you capture the beat. love the wall art and the bits and pieces of your culture. great shots, A!! mixed in with the lovely autum leaves...and of course, leonard. thanks for this great tabblo. meet you at moes!!
William44 said at 5:14 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
Wonderful !!!!! You captured the city......I love it.....:)
William44 said at 5:18 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
I must be getting very old... I looked closely at the menue at Wilinskys and see that a special is now $3.50. Moe must be smiling.
Tishfish said at 5:44 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
Very lovely tabblo!!!
LatentE said at 6:01 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
Not part of Richler's books, at least that I remember, but a part of my memory and one that Marcel Proust tells us is one of the most fundamental - smells and the smell of the Saint Laurent Bakery just down the street from Schwartz's. I can smell the vanilla (Calvin Klein copied the old country girl perfume) and see the mille-feuille and eclairs and whatever those little wedding cake like things with cardboard bands holding the cake topped with whip cream and a cherry are called. I remember the cop that walked me across Blvd St-Laurent almost every school day and left my hand smelling vaguely of fish. I tried to avoid him though he was only well meaning. But those smelly hands!

In the fall the leaves became so abundant that they could easily be massed into giant piles that kids (me included of course) would take running dives into. Then in the winter, this was before snow was carted away, the snow would be pushed to the sides of the streets forming mountain borders. Towards the end of winter when the mounds were higher than corn fields at harvest time we used to play king of the hill.

In spring it was time to chop away the six inches of ice with its ingrained sand and dirt that covered the sidewalks. With the warmth the snow began to melt and the games of racing toothpick boats down the rapids of water flowing to the corner drain would begin.

With the approaching summer the down pouring rain turned the streets into magical plains of a thousand little crystal crowns. This was a match for the etched glass of frosty winter windows in the days before multi-paned thermal glass. The streets would be cleaned by water trucks that sprayed the dirt to the curbs. Us kids, on seeing the truck approaching, would run out into the street and play a double jump game, jumping over the twin sprays as the truck passed. Looking back and thinking of the driver it must have been unnerving to see kids running out into the street whenever you approached.

I remember a winter years later walking by Parc St-Louis and seeing from the distance what looked like people floating through the park. The impression was almost dream like. When I got closer I could see that they were skating on the paths that crisscrossed the park. They had been iced over for skating. I'd never seen that done before nor did I see it afterwards.

Sorry, but whoever that hockey player is he doesn't seem a match for Maurice or Henri.

Old memories. Time to make new ones.
Keeli said at 6:10 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
Great collection of photographs. Love the leaves spacing the the collages.
Paolo said at 6:15 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
Great tabblo, very well done.
OscarDaniel said at 6:18 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
Great Tabblo Annelies! good pictures and colors!
Chiloedream said at 6:59 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
Déjà plus d'une feuille sèche
Parsème les gazons jaunis.
Soir et matin la brise est fraîche,
Hélas les beaux jours sont finis!
Théophile Gautier
"Emaux et Camées"
Tu es la reine de l'automne Leftie. North Winds.....
Domieb2 said at 7:36 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
Great tabblo!
MANSER said at 7:55 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
Montréal me salue de sa main....coucou Montréal
comme ça donne envie de s'expatrier ce beau tabblo. Montréal est déjà venu vers moi, mais l'inverse jamais..
:) ca se voit que c'est un tabblo de fille ça loll, un super beau mec en affiche et une belle potiche rousse dans une vitrine. :) je suis mauvaise langue comme on dit chez nous ;))
blague à part, ce mélange subtil de fond vert et de couleurs rouge, orange, jaune donne un ton apaisant...propice au voyage, à la découverte d'une autre contrée, d'un autre style de vie.

j'aime beaucoup voyager à travers tes photos A, tu nous donnes beaucoup de plaisir par tes balades d'après-midi.

Bref, il y a ici des gens bien généreux et tu en fais partie A.


Paris et sa nuit étoilée te salue bien ... bisous.

-M-
Lifequest22 said at 8:01 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
Annelies--Thanks for this beautiful tabblo. I love your mix of photos. I've never been to Montreal, but I would love to visit after seeing your tabblo. The wall mural is great.
Charlespop said at 9:27 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
C'est parfait .......je ne peux pas dire de plus.
Pkeener said at 9:35 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
Denver's starlit night greets you, also..
Leftofcenter said at 11:04 p.m. on Oct 21, 2007:
Merci/thanks EVERYONE.
PAMMIE the ladies' man LEONARD COHEN in the window is for you, you know he's a Montreal native.

LATENTE no one will ever replace Rocket Richard, you don't "get over" Montreal, people are still standing in line in front of SCHWARTZ'S for the best smoked meat in town..
The Wilensky's pic is for you.

yes $3.50 for the Wilensky's special BILL, you have to come down from that mountain more often LOL

JEFF the Windsor pics are for you. It was such a grey day, a lot of them came out too dark. will do better for a future tabblo!

M le hockey c'est sacré ici on révère nos joueurs de hockey même la plupart d'entre eux sont scandinaves ou tchèques et on gagne po en pluss!!

LINDA just hop on da magic bus, follow the brownie crumbs... :)

CHILOE il y a toujours une ou deux ou trois photos pour toi tu sais bien.. bises
les herbes folles
se couvrent d'automne
je m'assieds
(santoka)
Pattymaryclare said at 12:44 a.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
oh leftie-annalies! I am just NOW starting a new painting, ALL ABOUT autumn leaves..some painted , some real ones incorporated. THIS IS SUMPTOUS! (just now got daily digest .grrrrrh!)
Chiloedream said at 3:59 a.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
Les yeux fermés, je devine les images qui sont pour moi, et la poésie en prime : LES HERBES FOLLES SE COUVRENT D'AUTOMNE JE M'ASSIEDS et je savoure mon matin frais d'Octobre. North winds.
Decoy said at 10:36 a.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
A nice presentation of the spirit of Montreal! Thanks for the tour! :)
Pussycat said at 11:38 a.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
neat tabblo..so much diversity in montreal! good idea!
Bxrgirl27 said at 11:57 a.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
Great collection of "fall in the city" images, Annalies! Makes me want to come for a visit!
TopOfTheStretch said at 3:43 p.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
beautifully done.....thanks for the pictures of Windsor station...i really do appreciate it!
Fredzee said at 4:19 p.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
the "winged Victory" of Coeur-de-Lion MacCarthy is so beatiful, with the light ...
"Je reviendrai à Montréal
Dans un grand Bœing bleu de mer
J'ai besoin de revoir l'hiver
Et ses aurores boréales"... ;)
de + en + bavard tes tabblos ! ... j'ai pô le temps de tout lire...
AliDar said at 4:57 p.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
Great stuff Annelies! I love how you arranged this... from the top of the mountain down? I particularly love the arrangement of the street photos, and ending it with the pensive red-haired manikin, ... and then the leaves again. Nice work! :)
Leftofcenter said at 6:56 p.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
thx Patty, chiloe rebises, Anna, Jessica (happy birthday!!), Laura, Jeff, Dar & Fred pour toi
robert charlebois et cie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCz486-SHyo
(pas à la défense!)
Pkeener said at 8:23 p.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
Fred! where u ben? i love our sistah's montreal.
Leftofcenter said at 8:35 p.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
Fred: c vrai que chu bavarde mais je répondais aux expatriés je l'ai fait un peu pour eux ce tabblo, so tu rates rien en ne lisant pô don't worry be happy..
Peggysuew said at 9:25 p.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
A, thank you so much for sharing Montreal - such a beautiful old city..one day i would love to see it, maybe pammie and i will take the magic bus (or train or plane) :) to see you and everything Montreal has to offer :) in the meantime, i will enjoy it through your eyes.
SterlingGray said at 10:50 p.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
Wonderful collection!!! Autumn is such a great time, cooler weather, wonderful colors, a nice walk through the park, just a more relaxed time. Great Tabblo.
Debdog said at 11:35 p.m. on Oct 22, 2007:
vert lovely :) love the last leaf shot :)
Shenresi said at 2:16 a.m. on Oct 23, 2007:
wonderful pctures Annelies. N# 3 and 4 are looking like painted. Did you do that with a paint program ?
Gefällt mir sehr gut, schöne Arbeit
Shector said at 8:26 a.m. on Oct 23, 2007:
bellissime..lamia preferita e' il murales sulla casa..buon occhio!!
Leftofcenter said at 11:40 a.m. on Oct 23, 2007:
*par "expatriés" je nommais Uma LatentE et Jeff qui ont vécu à Montréal a long time ago... and Bill is up north, doesn't spend much time in the city anymore?
Pkeener said at 2:25 p.m. on Oct 23, 2007:
is leonard's book called blue book?
Leftofcenter said at 2:34 p.m. on Oct 23, 2007:
why? because of "indigo"?? Indigo is one of those giant bookstores with sofas and Starbucks.. his latest is called BOOK OF LONGING:

"back in
Montreal
as for the
past
children
roshi
songs
Greece
Los Angeles
what
was that
all about?"
Leftofcenter said at 2:53 p.m. on Oct 23, 2007:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9ZMoM1VbU8

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love...
Lifequest22 said at 6:28 p.m. on Oct 23, 2007:
Amiga's- http://www.leonardcohen.com/video.html
Leftofcenter said at 7:04 p.m. on Oct 23, 2007:
thx amiga this one goes to my favorites
"we're drinking and we're dancing
and the band is really happening
and the Johnny Walker wisdom running high..." (closing time)
(was he on the magic bus too??)
Lifequest22 said at 7:26 p.m. on Oct 23, 2007:
Glad you liked. :) Dynamite song. I'm listening to it now.
Eduardo.affonso said at 3:08 p.m. on Oct 24, 2007:
Just great, ANNELIES. Your photos make me want to visit Montréal again. Btw, you never cease to amaze me...
Albert_09 said at 5:48 a.m. on Oct 25, 2007:
Great Photos
William44 said at 9:12 a.m. on Oct 25, 2007:
Anneles, I still get to Montreal at least every 4 to 6 weeks. How can an ex-Montrealer not get their "fix"!!!!
Gretel said at 6:31 p.m. on Oct 25, 2007:
o i luv dis 1 big sistah letofie! i wud lik to vizit u in montreal on da magic bus sum day!
Leftofcenter said at 12:02 a.m. on Oct 26, 2007:
sum day...
Leftofcenter said at 10:16 a.m. on Oct 26, 2007:
thx Eduardo, hop on the bus. Montreal has changed since the 70s except for the poutine.. (fries topped with cheese curds and hot gravy)
ViqiFrench said at 10:14 p.m. on Oct 26, 2007:
Looks like you had a delightful day, out and about with camera! Great shots. ;-)
Agdal said at 6:42 a.m. on Oct 28, 2007:
J'aime beaucoup les tapis de feuilles multicolores et le visage d'un homme que j'écoute beaucoup : Léonard Cohen!!!Du coup,cela me fait fredonner:
"The sea so deep and blind
The sun the wild regret
The club the wheel the mind
O love aren't you tired yet?"..............
bRAVO,Annelies,tu nous régales!!!joelle
Gerardfotografeert said at 5:34 p.m. on Oct 30, 2007:
Prachttabblo Annelies met mooie verschillende onderwerpen.
To1n3tt3 said at 11:44 a.m. on Nov 1, 2007:
wow nice shot of montreal!
Ukirsari-nicholas said at 7:14 a.m. on Nov 26, 2007:
so romantic annelies!!!! thanks for sharing. bagus sekali :)
NavyMom said at 6:54 p.m. on Jan 15, 2008:
yes! what memories some of these photos bring back.
SeánanForbes said at 11:03 p.m. on Feb 20, 2008:
I had heard that Montréal was beautiful . . .
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