Come Walk With Me...

I have been away so long and am duly ashamed of myself!  But in the meantime we moved house - our fourth move in five years.  It was exhausting but we luuuurve our new apartment and are not planning on going anywhere for a very long time. (Has anyone ever read the diaries of Georgina Nichols books?  They are the diaries of a saucy fifteen-year-old English girl and I always steal them from my teenage sister when I go home for Christmas.  Anyway, she says 'lurve' for love and I've some how picked it up.)  I also finished my second semester of my two year grad program - yay!  I know have four luxurious months off from writing papers, marking papers and reading overwhelming quantities of literature (fascinating as it is, sometimes having to plow through 4 - 5 hundreds of pages a week takes the pleasure out of reading.  I'm so looking forward to a summer of getting settled here, working on my dolls and general taking it easy.  I plan to read nothing but PD James and spy novels until school starts up, and I neither want to hear, read nor utter the words aesthetic, paradigm, discourse for a very long time. 

Anybody feel like going for a walk? Come check out my fab new neighbourhood, Point St. Charles (in the Wikipdia entry it says it was Canada's first industrial slum.  Yummy! But that was a long time ago.)  It's a little rough around the edges but it's got scads o' character...

Ahh...my laundry.  Isn't it beautiful?  Okay, the real reason I took this picture is because it's actually warm enough to hang out my laundry!  It's SPRING!!!  Even up here in the nordic tundra that is Montreal.  Under that laundry line there is still snow, because we got so much snow this winter, there was a ten-foot drift in the  backyard (backyard, people , I have a backyard!  Well we share with the downstairs tenant but still - I'm psyched.) Ahem.  Moving on...

Our alleyway!  Yes, I'm even excited about the alleyway.  We used to live on a major downtown street, but now we're on a little residential street and the backyard opens into alley through which we can bring our bikes and we can lock them in a shed on the backyard and don't have to drag them up a flight of stairs like we used to and wheeeeee!  It's thrilling (probably only for me, I realize.)  Did I mention I did all my errands on my bike today?  Oh, joy.

Here is some of all-time favourite graffiti on the nearby train bridge that I walk under every day - aren't they sweet? 

A beautiful church up the road. On the weekend we can hear its bells...so lovely.  I had some fun with photoshop with these pictures:

I'll be back soon with the rest of the walk, and some pictures of the new dolls I've been working on.  I tried to post a video below to make up for my dreadful absence, but it's not working and I can't delete it for some reason.  Sorry to be a tease! 

 

   

Comments

[Beth]

Yay! Moving is exciting! Definitely a pain in the ass but still exciting none the less! We are also moving in a week...no, 9 days to be exact! But who's counting?! hahah I would love to hang my laundry to dry, BUT, again, it's the Jersey thing. The air is so polluted here I don't think I could! Seriously, on the clearest night you can see maybe a handful of stars.
Anyway, congratulations on your new place, I can't wait to see more pics and some new works! :)

[Aimee]

Welcome back. We have missed you. Glad you got moved ok and wish you the best of luck. Can't wait to see more of your work.

Aimee

[Anna]

Your post made me smile ~ you're such an optimist, I love that! I remember dreading warm weather as a child because it meant having to hang ALL the laundry out to dry - even the towels and sheets - in the winter there wasn't enough room inside the house, so we used the dryer - mmm... soft warm towels from the dryer instead of stiff cold towels from the line - hahaha... but as an adult, I too now enjoy the smell of laundry after it's been hung outside to dry :)

[tiffaney]

Ah, I cant wait to go to grad school. I know Ill hate music even more than I do now (kinda like reading all those books so quickly takes the fun out of it for you) but thats ok because in the end Ill have a nice shiny degree. W00t!

[Susan]

Welcome back! Moving is so stressful. Having somewhere to hang your laundry is super. Great photos, by the way.

[Du Buh Du Designs]

Well is sounds like you have a good excuse for not being around! As for moving to a former "slum" character beats out cookie cutter houses and buildings anyday. It's probably one of those places where in ten years former "iffy" neighborhoods" will be littered with small boutiques:)
Look forward to seeing more pics!
~Christine ;)