Saturday Photo: Laneway Is the Cat's Meow

We've been living on the Plateau now for six months, and I don't know how many times I've passed rue Demers. But it wasn't until a week ago that I really saw it.

At one point, someone built a series of small workers' cottages--from the city's evaluation role, it would seem about the turn of the 20th century. But the tiny houses have been lovingly renovated, and the center of the lane has been turned into a whimsical linear park, which would seem to be maintained by residents. That's the cat fountain in the upper photo and that's the cat, I presume, in the lower one.