I just found out that I may be going back to my favourite hotel in Montreal next week. It has a window seat (with built-in tray for martini glasses… or a sandwich) that looks out to the clear blue sky as if I am a princess prisoner in a fort - one who will never be rescued. Which is just fine with me.
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19. Park by the Cornfields
That is so very Canadian! I was meeting my friend under very crisp cool and gray Ottawa clouds at the Cumberland Harvest Market, and she texted me: Park by the cornfields. The assumption being, I know what a cornfield looks like. Being Canadian, I was up to the task.
It reminds me of travelling in Africa, where all the cars would park under the one tree in the parking lot, hoping for shade. Parking as a cultural event.
The market was exactly a replica of several episodes of Midsommer Murders. Except there were no horses. There were hounds. I don’t know if a dead body was found today, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
18. Night Sky Whisps
I don’t remember ever seeing white (as opposed to blue?) clouds floating over the night sky quite like this.
17. Tornado. Times Three. Times two
Three Tornadoes touched down in Ottawa. Plus another three across the river on the Quebec side. It threw us for a loop! I have never seen an all orange sky - eerie.
Later. Jan 5, 2019. I have since learned what to do for the next Tornado warning. For one, leave apartment that has only glass walls (apparently, this is obvious, but it never occurred to me!); get gas (for a Deep Impact styled exodus from the city); find cash/gold/items to barter during Armageddon; buy water. Oh! And for God’s sake, charge your electronics (I didn’t, phone died when electricity went out. Obvious? Well it wasn’t to me). And I have bought a crank radio. What the heck you say? Yes, this is not a crank. Radios can crank.
16. Spiclypeus shipporum
If you are looking for a life size dinosaur, head over to our world class Museum of Nature. This photo of the sky is from the magnificent sunlit (moonlit) renovated atrium.
