Briques du Neige: Toronto Cardinal

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Toronto Cardinal

Spent Super Bowl weekend in TO (who have pretty decent alleys of their own) and caught this winter cardinal hanging out in the trees.

1 comment:

Christian Jarry said...: Very nice. I got quite a few around. The other day, my girlfriend was home and she told me there were two cardinals playing in the balcony with two blue jays!

How I wish I could've been home to take pics.; February 17, 2011 10:56 AM

Why briques du neige?

When I first moved to Montréal, I was obsessed with the quantity of accumulated snow in the winter. I came up with a scheme to design a snow-brick making tool and hire out my services to people where I would turn all the snow in their yard to bricks and then stack it neatly. This enterprise, named briques du neige, would also be an excellent way to learn about and integrate myself into my new community. Unfortunately, before I was able to launch my plan, the Japanese invented Yuki-Taro and made me redundant. So my project morphed itself into this blog, kept the title (including the minor grammatical error which perfectly captures my functional but erroneous french) and the mission to better understand this crazy city and the Quebec culture that is such a crucial and complex part of the Canadian story.