Out of the Jurisdiction: Montreal Murals

A Montreal neighborhood has many murals, and this week is the annual festival

during which new mural are painted.

This is a new mural being painted this week.  I think the artist is Hachem.

This mural from a previous year symbolizes the good and bad of immigrating to Quebec.

A mural honoring Hall of Fame baseball player, Jackie Robinson, the first black player in the major leagues.  He played two years in Montreal before being called up to the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Another mural for Montreal's favorite son, the poet, song writer and singer, Leonard Cohen.

A clever new temporary mural was painted on the pavement.  From all other perspectives, it is elongated, but from this one spot it has normal perspective.  It is called "Fake News," 

and has newspaper printed on the toilet paper.

Out off the Jurisdiction: More Montreal

The Underground City.

Leonard Cohen

In the Golden Square Mile.

A passionate instructor kept the schoolchildren fully engaged in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Out of the Jurisdiction: Touring Montreal

Built to be Canada's Parliament building, plans changed before it was opened.  Now it is a market.

Good architecture.

An English bank.

Architecture?  Check?  Food?  Check.

New Britain Bees

Cows in West Hartford.  Sea turtles in Naples.  Bears in Berlin.  And now Bees in New Britain.

I didn't see plaques or labels, so I don't know who sponsored the bees or who the artists are.

Solid Citizens

Some of the notables who stand around downtown Hartford.

Nathan Hale at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Thomas Hooker behind the Old State House.

Mark Twain at the Hartford Public Library.

General Israel Putnam in Bushnell Park.

Horace Wells (the discoverer of anesthesia) in Bushnell Park.

Marquis de Lafayette on Washington Street.

Christopher Columbus on Washington Street.

Yup.  All guys.  Don't blame me.  I didn't carve them.

More Faces in the Crowd

Bobbie.

Kate.

Flann.  A wood craftsman.

In Elizabeth Park.

Twins Miriam and Sarah.  Prom pictures.

Ken sold me a lifetime senior pass to National Park Service venues.

Music Man at Goodspeed Opera House

A classic show in a classic theater.