Category: Montreal
Waterfall in the Japanese Garden
Bonsai
The Montreal Botanical Garden has several collections of Bonsai, which I can’t help calling Tiny Tortured Trees.
Montreal Tower from the Chinese Garden
Tea House Garden – Montreal Botanical Garden
Fiery Fountain
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There are several displays of the fire at this fountain near the convention center in Montreal every evening. La Joute generally has a ring of spectators for each display.
Convention Center
Minor Emergencies
So about 11 am I notice that my critter-sitter, also known as R, had just left a message for my cell phone. Unfortunately, the routine that I use to check messages while in the US did not allow me to pick it up in Canada. This wouldn’t have worried me so much but my critter-sitter wasn’t supposed to try to reach me except for an emergency. After several failed attempts at using the cell phones belonging to me and Jack I started begging cell phones from friends here at the convention. (We left one very elderly dog at home and horses are ALWAYS an emergency waiting to happen.) I finally got hold of my friend D who boards my mare and asked her if she knew why my critter sitter had called me. (The friend D who boards my mare has what is essentially our medical power-of-attorney for our critters so I knew she would know what was going on.) D assured everyone was fine including Rion who was playing in her back yard and that R was there. It turned out that Indi (a very sweet, older grulla gelding) had decided to play with the hydrant in D’s barn the previous night. He had never, ever done this before. In fact, no horse had done this for over a decade, which is why there wasn’t a safety fastener on it. It was quite a stretch for Indy to reach the hydrant and flood the barn. When D got to the barn in the morning, all the horses but my mare were up to their fetlocks in water. R was calling to find out where we keep our Shop-Vac, so she could take it over to help the clean-up process. I don’t know if she ever found it, but D reports on Facebook that her barn has been cleaned up.
It’s always something.
Lotus at Botanical Garden
Full Moon Over Montreal
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I found out how to use the night setting on my camera. I am so proud. The building with the bubble on top between the two skyscrapers on the right is the Delta, the hotel with the night time activities.