Notre Dame du Mile-End, and her cat. Note the map on her dress, it geolocates itself.

At this point in the winter, everyone's figured out their favourite hat/coat/mitt combinations.

La piste du Corridor de Mobilité Durable Henri-Bourassa et la piste Tolhurst-Meilleur sous analyse. #Ahuntsic #Montréal #velomtl #polmtl journaldesvoisins.com/les-pistes-c...

Beau déneigement des 14 voies autos de Crémazie/Métropolitain. Pour les trottoirs, ça pourrait être mieux.

You can curl with anything, you don't need big granite rocks with handles. "Kids compete for gold in human curling at Smuggs Winter Games" www.wcax.com/2026/02/18/k...

Public security officials taking the plunge. 🥶🥶🥶🥶 "Sécurité publique de Pessamit : l’équipe en tête du Défi de l’ours polaire" lenord-cotier.com/2026/02/19/s...

Library has a new book. Could be useful to read. 🤨

Montreal mural glorifies our three-cones-of-government political system.

Only 224 days until October.

Summer will be here in 122 days.

Spring will be here in 29 days.

Bike is sad.

With recent heatwaves lasting longer periods of time and summer being much too short I've developed a way to drink 4 litres of energy drink before needing a refill, 3.3 litres of that is carried on the bike. Have learned that hot-day dehydration can actually be serious and can also be avoided.

"Descriptive experience sampling" in the news. On a bike ride it's "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun" "having fun"

It's true, they did, and continue to do so. Can nothing stop big oil destroying our only planet? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Over the past few days I've had cheese before going to sleep and last night's dream was a doozy. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the...

City to finally remove old tramway tracks 60 years after they replaced tramcars with buses.🤨 60 years ago the cheap solution was to just put asphalt down on top of them. I've seen tracks pop up here and there, Bleury south of St-Catherine iirc. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g...

Before the bike ride it takes very little time to pump👉arms, pump👉legs, pump👉neck & face; then the little bottle comes along for the ride to reapply in a couple of hours.

124.6 km/h!

Someone jut told me that they just learned that Montreal is an island. It's true, we are an island. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_...

Interesting review on used electric cars. The e-car market's been around for about ten+ years and now the used market is big enough to give us a variety of choices to buy a used electric car. #Decarbonization arstechnica.com/cars/2026/02...

6 pm and somebody who doesn't understand the concept of time unless it's the concept of his dinner time, of which he has precise knowledge of the time of day when it occurs, is letting us know what time it is and that it is kind of a priority/emergency please come now!!!!!

Goblin Macbeth coming to the Centaur theatre. We're seeing Robert Lepage's Macbeth at end of February, so we watched Stratford Festival's MacBeth (Kanopy) in preparation for Lepage's french (in olde french at times) version so we'd understand a bit what the heck is going on. It's a Macbeth winter!

"Une piste cyclable sera aménagée dans Sherbrooke cet été, même sans consultation publique" ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/223...

Why the money-losing Train du Charlevoix rail-line will never be converted to a magnificent incredible fantastically-scenic bike path? 👉One paper factory that is not at all connected anywhere near the rail line will maybe in the distant future use it to carry freight. 🤔 Worth reading in translation.

My buddy got a new bike with big tires!

Today's loaf.

Parc de la Mauricie parkway road-bike-ride-in-paradise is worth the slightly long drive to get there. An excellent day-trip bike ride tho: leave Montreal at 7 am, arrive 9:30, on the bikes at 10 am. 4-8 hours of continuous bliss joy & happiness. And hills. 4 hours: supermen & women. 6-8 hours: us.

Parc de la Mauricie road-bike paradise ride.😍 Park's parkway road is completely new, wide clean shoulders the entire distance, the most perfect road anywhere. Ride gate to gate and back to the first gate. Actually we ride: Rivière à la Peche/Km 5 >62 >58 (rest stop at Esker). Return is Km 58 >1 >5.

When the 1-litre size of sunscreen arrives in your local Jean Coutu, but it!

Covered bridge has many angles. This was an early wooden bridge design that used an arch for its structure. This was before they figured out the lattice-style construction that was easy to build.

Town encouraged residents to make lawn displays for the 150th anniversary of the town. This one evokes the challenges of early farming.

I've been exploring different concepts of time units. Did you know that GPS's are "weeks and seconds"?

I ride without a gps.

Core-rope computer memory. Hand wired!

Super Navigators is Super Interesting.

A philosophy I agree with. The human brain is a navigation brain, an exploration brain. #GPSNever

Who's that cleaning her bike chain, in white pants? It's Susan Sontag!

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Original "The Italian Job" movie discussed traffic congestion.

Notre Dame du Mile-End, and her cat. Note the map on her dress, it geolocates itself.

La Saccoche church. #RogerDAstous

Montreal's crocodile.

imo the best of all the Montreal murals.

The bike lane on Edouard-Montpetit at Vincent-d'Indy in front of Metro station has been an illegal construction-worker parking lot for previous few years, will return to safety for cyclists when work finally completed on 1 July 2026. Don't know how streetview got photos with no cars parked there.

Weather forecast is good, delightful even, except for smog?!??

There's arches and then there's arches!

easy and delicious onion tart recipe. Also breezy and cheesy. Package of puff pastry has enough pastry to also make apple tarts at the same time.

Multi-year underground repair/construction project is multiyear disaster for one of the busiest bike lanes in Montreal on rue Berri. Work & detour continues until November 2027..

Copy-Paste ruined architecture.