SKETCHING SCHOOL TRIP @ LUNNENBURG
One of my favourite views
the pretty and colourful little houses - woodsiding houses being the characteristic of the town's architecture
Ships and the sea..
Riverport
Our cottage which oversees the Lahave River
A beautifully intact spider web with its weaver, its flattened buddy on the wall
One of the Review Sessions in the Shipyard where Bluenose 2 was built in
Afterthoughts...
After spending a little more than a week in Nova Scotia, I am really happy to be back in Montreal. I have to admit that Nova Scotia was beautiful and life was pretty peaceful there. However, I was ready to leave the place anytime after just 2 days there. No doubt that life was pretty and perfect there, I begin to appreciate Montreal and city life more than before. For a while, I was thinking of what it is that makes me love Montreal. Perhaps, it's the convenience of the city itself. Definitely not the hustle and bustle of the city, because I tend to avoid the crowd and the noise. But what a friend said does make a lot of sense, it's all the little imperfections in a city that makes up the beauty of life and makes living so interesting. I guess, that's what I always put it as "being human"? Montreal, I guess, is a pretty good example of a city because it has all the essential qualities of the city..the chaos in essence which we always complain about, yet somehow we just miraculously got used to this chaos and actually unconsciously love it. ..and miss it too when we leave this mess.
posted by shuugi @ 5:05 AM
1 Comments:
yeah...I agree with your friend in the "imperfections" theory.
I love Montreal too, though not as much as I love KL, but the reasons for both affections are similar. These two cities are very very charming. They sometimes present their uglier sides that disgust me, only to woo me again with a pretty smile. It's the people, the diversity, the buildings and the history and culture that come integrated into every step you take in these cities.
Halifax has history and culture too~just not enough diversity, I think. It's not ugly enough, so when the prettier side shows itself, one fails to admire it as much, relatively.
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