Fall is almost here. I've been back to work for a few weeks now. I noticed it's been almost a month since I've shared anything new in Montréal-la-la. I had so many ideas for clins d'œil, or even full posts to tell you about my summer, but I don't like to things too out of date so I submit to you a large quantity of photos that show some of my adventures this summer:
Late June, a field trip with my students to the Musée Marguerite-Bourgeoys. Madame Bourgeoys was an early settler of and founded the first school on the island of Montréal.
Later in June, Bo spotted this heron right around the corner from the school where I used to work in Maplewood, Minnesota.
Also in Minnesota, here is the construction crew building the new 35W bridge (to replace the one that collapsed). You see downtown Minneapolis in the background. Bo took this picture, I think it's neat.
This one's dedicated to my pal KO. She and I used to talk about running away (from the East Coast) and going somewhere in the middle of nowhere which we decided at the time was Wisconsin. We wanted to buy cheese hats I remember. Years later I moved to Minnesota, just a hop, skip and a jump from the WI-MN state line and she married a guy from Wisconsin. Funny. This summer while passing through America's dairyland I picked up this bag of cheese curds at a roadside cheese stand and nibbled on them while thinking of her.
Just a fun, trying to be artsy shot of my car reflected in a milk truck while driving through, you guessed it, Wisconsin.
Fourth of July fireworks in Jay, NY. (I took a little video too, but like the last one, it's sideways, and some guy's car alarm kept going off from the sound of the fireworks so the audio's not great either. I'll get the hang of it eventually).
I took this picture while on my first bicycle ride with the new bike I bought in July. I ate my lunch at the Parc des Rapides which overlooks the Lachine rapids. It's only about a 15-20 minute ride from our apartment on bike trails along the St. Lawrence river the whole way. I went there several times this summer. There were TONS of blue herons everywhere. The rapids don't look quite so impressive in this photo, but they really are...they're rough and roaring and foamy. Next summer I want to take one of the raft rides they offer. Wheee!
Just outside of Quebec City in early August, Bo and I visited les chutes de la Chaudière. It was gorgeous! Massive amounts of water. Some of which is used to produce electricity.
The light at the end of this tunnel takes you to class at Laval University in Quebec City where all of the buildings are connected by tunnels because of the long harsh winters. This one is very bomb shelter looking but it also made me think of "Mork and Mindy" because of it's egg shape.Farewell summer 2008. It's been nice knowin' ya!
lovely photos! I know what you mean about blogging too far in the past, my whole summer went by with hardly any posts!
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