Love the quoted MTL picture. Reminds me of all the little staircase lanes here, the houses are even painted brightly - same basic idea, but MTL's is nicer and stone.

I wish we had that meaty feeling too, where you look at that and just know there's city all around you, unlike here, where you know, okay, another half block and I'm in clapboard rowhouses. I think most people can just sense when it's the end, and when it's the beginning. And I wish we had some parts that felt a beginning like that MTL pic.
Christmas Day by
R C, on Flickr
November 16 2016 by
R C, on Flickr
*****
A couple of the snow today...
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January 2 2017 by
R C, on Flickr
That memorial is to the son of a former Governor General (of NL, pre-Confed) who drowned saving two young lower-class girls from a nearby river. People back then thought it was a waste and the two girls never had very enjoyable lives after.
January 2 2017 by
R C, on Flickr
The City has implemented a shitload of heritage protection laws, but I think my personal favourite - in terms of how it has translated into the experience of being in the city - is that no home may share the same exterior colour as an attached neighbouring home.
All the colours you can see
Cover the borders of a masterpiece
Time can paint the best of me
Over the unclear eyes of memory
All hands on a grain of sand
January 2 2017 by
R C, on Flickr
January 2 2017 by
R C, on Flickr
January 2 2017 by
R C, on Flickr