Month: July 2018

I feel like I’ve given short shrift to Quebec because it was toward the end of a long trip and there was such a social whirl involved in most of the stops I made in that province. So today I’m featuring some images that make me smile and remember beautiful places I saw earlier this month. On a hike with my friends Michel and Claudette, we saw this field of wild purple irises at Parc du Bic. And not two minutes away was this reflecting pool, nothing more than water trapped by rocks as the tide went out. Ephemeral and…

(En français: épiceries au québec) One of the most interesting ways to learn about a new place is to wander through a grocery store. You learn how much fresh and local is valued in the rest of the world outside the US and can explore foods unique to the place you’re in. This post, then, aims to give you a sense of what it’s like to shop for groceries in a small grocery store in a town in the Quebec countryside. First, most of the labels are in French, so get ready to test out the accuracy of google translate!…