Miles of smiles.

Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax mural.

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Rockland overpass's Shrek wind-speed indicator.

A look at Quebec bike builder Memento Cycle, which hand-builds their bike frames here in Montreal. Quebec has 22 bike companies, six of which build frames for their bikes here. www.ledevoir.com/economie/969...?

"La superficie du parc national du Mont-Orford doublera dès mercredi" (The area of Mont-Orford National Park will double on Wednesday) ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/224...

Regular gas now at C$2.03 in Montreal. 😳

Every photographer has their best photo or video ever, and this is my best video ever. Snow Geese in early spring, coming in for a landing. A lot of snow geese.

Instead of going outside today you could just fill the bathtub with ice and water and sit in it for 30 minutes. The effect would be the same.

Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine bike path previously stopped at this corner (Villeneuve). Bike riders got pushed into the car lane.😱 Bike lane is now built & open. It can be a big job, to close a gap between bike paths that existed for a couple of decades (of danger!) Valerie Plante got it done.👍

Le Québec, une destination cycliste incontournable: Quebec, a must-see cycling destination: www.velomag.com/destinations...

Imagine if Pont Mercier bike sidewalk could finally be completed (20 years after closing) across the fleuve St-Laurent/St-Lawrence river and the bridge was open again to bikes and this incredible riverside loop ride became a possibility. 😍👍🥂 @jfrheault.bsky.social

Where does the bike & pedestrian stop in the middle of the Pont Mercier Bridge? WHY does it stop there is a question for Québec's Minister of Transport.👈 An election is coming up, would appreciate if @jfrheault.bsky.social asked "when will the Pont Mercier sidewalk (closed since 2007) be finished? 🤔

Rock is natural quartz.

Quebec shares its highest peak with Newfoundland & Labrador in the Torngat mountains. The mountain has two names. Quebec: Mont D'Iberville Newfoundland & Labrador: Mount Caubvick Newfoundland refuses to name its highest mountain after a terrorist who burnt 36 settlements in Newfoundland in 1696.

"Tullochgorum" Say it, out loud. (Hint: don't say the silent letters) #Ormstown

How do you install a telephone pole if there is only bedrock, no ground to dig a hole? #ThingsYouSeeOnABikeRide Riding south of Ormstown/Brysonville on Montée Rocher through "The Rock" part of the region shows how they do it.

"Well the road used to be here. I definitely remember it being here."

Solo silo near Howick used to have a barn around it. #ThingsYouSeeOnABikeRide

Remember yarn bombing? Better than today's kind of bombing.

June sunset on Park Avenue.

Quebec map used by Vélo-Québec (left) uses the illegal "Quebec steals land from Newfoundland & Labrador map." Map on right shows what land Quebec is claiming it can steal from Labrador. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoun...

I myself have been seeing cars just drive straight through red lights. Like the red light doesn't exist. Did they not see it, bc texting? Or is it the wild west on our streets, drivers stopped giving any Fs at all?

How change (for the better) happened: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Le Québec, une destination cycliste incontournable: Quebec, a must-see cycling destination: www.velomag.com/destinations...

Someone misheard me say age-appropriate as beige-appropriate and now they're making mint off of it.

Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine bike path previously stopped at this corner (Villeneuve). Bike riders got pushed into the car lane.😱 Bike lane is now built & open. It can be a big job, to close a gap between bike paths that existed for a couple of decades (of danger!) Valerie Plante got it done.👍

In 1947 Canada were buying a lot of radios. 836,400 radios to be precise. Modern mass communication had begun.

The film shows Varda sitting and reflecting on the things she loves... and heart-shaped potatoes.

I'm not from Montreal (being from "the regions") but my partner is, and sometimes they show me places they or their family lived in the past. Their grandfather lived on St-Urbain. "Where on St-Urbain?" I asked. "It's not there anymore," they said. "What's there now?" "Nothing's there now. It's air."

Here's one of our favourite old mansions along Cote-Sainte-Catherine. Today's McMansions barely register on the classy-scale compared to gems like this. Cote-Sainte-Catherine road was a real genuine mansion row, but the sixties tore many of them down to build residential towers aka densification🤮.

Côte-Sainte-Catherine well known for having really great hair.

Publicity campaign targets pedestrians.

1909

What the cyclone (hurricane) in Fiji looks like today. Someone I know sent me this. Big wind and big big rain. Not good biking weather at all.

It's spring and that means.... It's time to make the change!

In 1948 young people dancing was of great concern to 62 year-old MNA Alphide Sabourin (father of 15 children). "The boys and the girls dance very closely together and that is not all. The lowest class of people congregate at these places." "Who are they?" "Bachelors and people like that," he said.

1947 driving safety stats: Driving's got a lot safer since 1947.

Spring? You want spring? You really want spring? You really really really want spring? Tuesday weather forecast: "Sorry, you can't have spring." 🦹‍♂️

March 1948: Newfoundland to vote on a referendum: -Retention of the present form of government by commission (ie to stay as a colony under Great Britain) -Return of "responsible self government" -Confederation with Canada "Canada option" lost, so they voted again!🇨🇦 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Ne...

Jazz-giant & Montreal native Oscar Peterson started his piano-playing career in the Johnny Holmes band, playing at Victoria Hall, the Alberta Lounge, & His Majesty's Theatre. When he started playing Oscar Peterson told people he played swing: "swing is sophisticated, grown-up jazz. I play swing."

Just bought tickets to see the winners of the Sat Fest 2026 film festival. What's special is these are "inside a giant dome" films that we will see inside the SAT's giant dome. sat.qc.ca/en/events/sa...

Your living 'at the edge of chaos' skillset news for today. phys.org/news/2026-04...

Stone window-ledges and an interesting mix of cut and uncut stone plus cut-stone details. Very nice! #LookUp

"Bikes don't need gasoline" news for today. Count the number of batteries tho. Hard to believe that bikes worked perfectly for over 100 years without needing batteries. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This explains a lot.

La Petite et le Vieux

Delightful decorative details are definitely decaying.

Look up! #arches