civilized ku # 250-53 ~ grey day vibrancy

Grey day light #1 • click to embiggen
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Grey day light #4 • click to embiggenSunday's light in Montreal presented me with a distinctly different experience from that of Saturday's late-day golden-amber-glow light. That said, I found it to be equally interesting and seductive.

Due to the prevailing architecture of Montreal's old city - which is primarily made of grey stone - and the soft "grey" light, my eye was drawn to those "snippets" of color that, set against the grey surround, seemed to be especially vibrant.

civilized ku # 246-49 ~ Art in Montreal

Artist's paints and stuff • click to embiggen

Toast map • click to embiggen
Hair drying + cows • click to embiggen
Golf book • click to embiggenMontreal's old city district, where we always stay while in Montreal, is home to quite a few Art galleries. The offerings run a quite varied gamut of media, techniques, and tastes. Here a few that I thought would appeal to the discriminating connoisseurs in the crowd (l-r) -

1.) A map of the world made out of stale bread. I believe that the map is burned onto the bread with a small blow-torch. If you have to ask, you probably can't afford it.

2.) A bronze beauty drying her hair - the bronze beauty is actually quite beautifully distorted. And, don't ignore the cow painting in the background - 3 cows on a white field, approx. 5×8 feet. If you have to ask, you probably can't afford either of them.

3.) My personal favorite - a book of golf courses (primarily European) pictures. Opened, a spread is approx. 2.5 × 5 feet. The book is quite thick and comes not only with a slipcase but also the viewing stand pictured here. If you have to ask, you probably can't afford it - $10,800 CAN per copy.

civilized ku # 240-45 ~ Light after the rain

Late day light #1 • click to embiggen
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Late day light #7 • click to embiggenRain was quite heavy and steady all day Saturday in Montreal. It was actually nice weather for just kicking back in the hotel room and hanging out with no particular need / desire to get out and about - something that we usually do on saturday night when we're in Montreal. The wife had a new business suit objective for the early afternoon which she pursued to a satisfactory conclusion (x 2) while I just took it easy.

In any event, round about 5PM-ish we decided to head our for walk around the neighborhood no matter the weather. As it turned out, just as we were leaving the room the sun was breaking through the clouds and casting some nifty light on the other side of the port as viewed from our room window.

By the time we got out the front door, the light and the air had turned golden and the street and adjoining strip park were bathed and immersed in an seemingly unearthly amber glow. The entire scene and experience put us in a kind of amber-glow state of mind which we managed to hold onto for the rest of a wonderful evening.

man & nature # 258 ~ vroom vroom

new car on a sunny day • click to embiggenI got up at the crack of dawn-ish this AM so I could drive down to Albany (140 miles) to pick up coma-college girl (where she had stayed last night so I could pick her up) and then turn around and head back to Glens Falls (50 miles) to pick up our new car and then give coma-college girl the car we rode in on so that she could head on back to college in Philadelphia and I could head back home so I could post some pictures that I made this past weekend in Montreal .... but ... when I got home the internet connection was down and I had to spend about an hour on the phone with the cable company tech support in order to get back online and now I am so within short order I'll post some pictures from Montreal.