Photo du Jour : Westmount Row

This is a beautiful photograph! Thank you for posting it – brightens my day.

Comment by Lorna Schmidt
January 4, 2009 @ 9:41 am

It is lovely, with “the city below the hill” in the background.

“Row” is a funny word, as it also means a quarrel, with a different pronunciation. Perhaps not so much used in spoken language, but a popular journalistic term as it is so short. “Westmount row about dog-run access”, etc.

Comment by Maria Gatti
January 4, 2009 @ 1:04 pm

I love this photo. That’s my city, built up a mountainside.

Comment by Factotum
January 4, 2009 @ 8:37 pm

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Comment by Factotum
January 4, 2009 @ 8:39 pm

“That’s my city, built up a mountainside.” Yeah, I think of of Westmount in particular as a riposte to a comment by the author Joel Garreau about San Francisco (where I lived for a few years): “If it snowed in the Bay Area, San Francisco wouldn’t exist. Can you imagine trying to get up those hills with ice on them?”

Well, we seem to manage….(Of course, SF imposed a rigid grid over its hills, no matter how steep the consequences.)

Comment by Kaï in Côte-des-Neiges
January 5, 2009 @ 11:17 pm

I guess that San Franciscan has never been to Switzerland or Austria. True, in snowy places roads in hilly places tend to wind around, following the lay of the land.

Lots of little slopes in Old Québec, as well.

Comment by Maria Gatti
January 7, 2009 @ 7:26 am