Saw this amazing flower garden on the roof of the house’s porch on the walk home (in the rain) this evening.

We’re having one of our porch posts replaced in the next week or so, depending on the rain, and I’m now kind of thinking about having all four porch pillars rebuilt so as to support something like this.

(If this is your house… nicely done!)

Somewhat boring picture (hey! hey! it’s okay for me to say some pictures in the site are boring, and in fact I know which ones are the boring ones!) of Back Cove. Ah, well.

The weather was fantastic. The walk home around Baxter Boulevard was great. And you probably don’t want to see a picture I took of the house and its new bright yellow paint I took sitting in the back yard eating an apple afterwards, do you?

(That new paint looks great when the sun’s low!)

An older picture of the painted bus we saw walking back from dinner.

We’ve been to Montreal enough we stay at a regular place, the excellent Auberge de La Fontaine, and we have what I’d guess you’d call a routine (yeah, routine, boring) after the six hour drive to the city from Portland:

We change, freshen up, whatever you want to call it; the Auberge is in The Plateau neighborhood, and it’s across Rue Rachel from Parc La Fontaine, so we stretch our legs, clear our heads and start to relax with a walk though the park or through the neighborhood; and we get something to eat.

This picture was taken on the walk back through The Plateau’s grid (streets) after eating at Pizzedelic on Avenue du Mont-Royal.