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Isobel Cunningham has published short fiction and poetry. Her book, Northern Compass is available on Amazon. She was born in Wales but Montreal is her adopted home. She speaks French, Modern Greek ( it’s a fun story) and a little Spanish…oh, English too, of course. She welcomes comments on her blog and looks forward to chatting with you over cyber-space.

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  • New tenants

    Here is a picture of the evening moon over my little apple tree. Can you see the red and white. birdhouse in the apple tree? For the first time since it was put up two little birdsare making their nest there. Just two little sparrows who are bringing dry grass and twigs and mating quite…

  • I really didn’t mean to look

    it was just a casual glance out of the kitchen window but to my bashful delight I caught a pair of cardinals mating.  The ecstatic moment took place on my newly repaired grape arbour…what an inauguration!  I could hardly believe my eyes and although it didn’t take very long( you’ll have to work on your…

  • OK I believe now

    This seen on my garden yesterday.  There were two of the, but one seemed to have got the hang of it better than the other.  Had a few smiles over the guy who just couldn’t get inside the cup of the flower.  Saw some other smaller bees yesterday too and a fly who was at…

  • City walls

                  This mural seen yesterday close to the the Biblioteque National.  I like how it depicts native women but with a rather modern treatment.  I like how a young tree is growing up in front of the girl and I like that there is an inscription in what I think…

  • At last, at last!

        Standing together on a windy morning the sky full of dark clouds two white brothers.

  • seen in a lane yesterday

      I really like this graffiti with its blending of the personal and the city, even the universal.  I tried to angle the camera so the image wouldn’t show the mess and debris below but then I thought, well, that’s part of living in the city too.  In that neighborhood there are trendy bars and…

  • I guess he heard me

    Look what I found today on av. De la Musee right downtown.  Snow tonight?.

  • I think this is quite justified

    TIRED LOVE Once the city welcomed Winter with his frost-art on the kitchen window, his soft jewel snowflakes fallen on a dark sleeve. The power in his breath set bare branches clashing in a harsh percussion. But we are fickle and now we search at street corners for the green- haired boy his cap trimmed…

  • Health budget cuts in Quebec

    i have been working for most of the month of March in a hospital here in Montreal.  I am retired after over thirty years in the system.  Occasionally I am called to do fill in periods of work when my old co-workers are sick or on unpaid leave.  I love being retired but I also…

  • Orientalist exhibition at the Montreal museum of fine arts

    OK just go, guys. I have been away and I must admit to a certain reluctance to getting into the subject. I mean, all that harem stuff is a bit off- putting. The idea of white 19 th century guys interpreting another culture for their own weird satisfaction made me hesitant certainly to volunteer to…