the fall, while it's good

so i've almost gotten used to not having a blog. not having things is easy. but the general feeling ever since (mid?)september has been a refreshed amazement re: how much i actually like fall.
it helped that the weather was good, as opposed to the almost non-existent beginning of this summer.
it helped that i had things on my mind.
as of things that i did, one of the most notable was letting the cat out onto the porch. (no pics! it was hassle enough to get her back in.)

so, tina and i get along pretty well sometimes.

sunday morning

otherwise, i've been getting out more and ...'exploring', sort of. thankfully, i have a couple of people these days to explore or re-explore with. so it's...i hate saying it's fun. interesting.

i didn't take pictures of most places. notably of 'THE eclipse', but i'm sure y'all saw it very well represented on facebook, so i'm not feeling guilty. also of park angringnon, which was a nice surprise. ok, here's an approximate cormorant from there.

what i can only guess it's a cormorant, posing in the rain. 

so then last weekend i couldn't hold it in anymore and went to town with the picture-taking.
this is from the last day of the jardins gamelin marketplace (so many events of this type that were all over the city all summer, while i was busy being depressed! omg)

exactly as october is supposed to be

i guess i like what they did even more when i think of how bad (=full of suspicious characters) this area used to be back when i arrived in montreal. 

plus i have a soft spot for this place since may of 2012, when every carré rouge manif started from here every night

and then i have some mont-royal pics. which i stopped being so enthusiastic about when i got back home and noticed on the social networks:) that absolutely everybody in montreal and their cat had been on mont-royal that day. which is logical, because the weather was spectacular. fall colors, fall light, blah.
luckily, most of my pics were of the cemetery, which i've seen now for the first time.

jewish section

and, in what we dubbed 'the poor immigrant section': russian orthodox cross

these scots, man!

one of the first romanian ones

anonymous

i want to believe that's a unicorn

overview of 'poor immigrant section'

surprise!:)

mausoleum

some of these graves are very personalized

finally, the Beaver Lake. i think it's the first time i see it with water in it!!

and i think i've taken enough belvedere pictures for a lifetime, so none of those.
more stuff:
- i found chestnuts! non-edible, of course, but still. here, as opposed to romania, you never get chestnut-bombed while walking in the street.
- no crocuses! i fail to comprehend this. i found a bunch of daisies though.
and parenthetically: music feels good again. writing feels doable again, sometimes.