We had friends from San Francisco in town last week, and spent some great times talking and walking and talking and drinking wine. One of our walks took us to la rue Demers in Montreal's Plateau district. It is a short lane between two larger streets where extremely modest housing was built more than a century ago. The owners have made it a greenway, with plants and cobbled paving and no cars at all.
These photos were taken a few years ago when we were briefly staying in the neighborhood, and today it's clear that the owners have decided it's time to do a little upgrading. Several of the houses had been stripped down to vapour seal and were being re-bricked, but the charm remains.
Things like this make a city live and breathe. Great to see...
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