From there to here, from here to there, Funny things are everywhere
It is the morning of our last day in Quebec City. We are in the car, on our way out of town. Tristan asks, not for the first time, if we are going back to Canada today. “We are in Canada,” I reassure him. He has not asked this question when we have visited Toronto … Continue reading “Sketches of Quebec City (Post-Script)”
The boys are asleep in the back seat, Beloved is taking in some culture at the National Musee des Beaux-Arts and I am driving randomly through Quebec City, as relaxed as I’ve been since sitting in Nancy’s comfortable kitchen two long days ago. I start out driving rather aimlessly, and end up in a rather … Continue reading “Sketches of Quebec City (Part Five)”
Beloved bought a disposable camera for Tristan to use on our vacation in Quebec City. Despite the fact that Tristan didn’t quite understand why this camera doesn’t immediately show the shot you just captured like our digital one does, I think the whole series of shots makes a wonderful collage of the old city from … Continue reading “Sketches of Quebec City (Tristan’s Perspective)”
We are sitting on the warm pavement of the parade grounds at the Citadel, the site of the original military fortification at Quebec and still an active military garrison. We are hot and sweaty under a heavy grey sky, having marched uphill into the Citadel from the old city in double-time to make it in … Continue reading “Sketches of Quebec City (Part Three)”
In 1759, the British and French forces fought the a definitive battle on the Plains of Abraham. Early on a humid morning in 2006, I was just grateful for a place to let the boys wander safely and explore the world at their own pace for a while. Wide open spaces, sweeping vistas down the … Continue reading “Sketches of Quebec City (Part Two)”
I’m never going to get around to writing the epic post that sums up our sojourn in la Belle Province, so I’ve decided to cover it in a series of vignettes instead. I’ll try to post them over the course of the next couple of days. We made, I decided in the end, a tactical … Continue reading “Sketches of Quebec City (Part One)”
Today marks two years since I started this blog. Two years = 730 days, and in those 730 days, I’ve put up 762 posts. This is what a year of blog posts looks like when you kill a small forest of trees in fear of losing your precious words to the interwebs, stored somewhere far … Continue reading “730 days, 762 posts, too many words to count”