Today's urban ride. It would have ended with a ride up parc Mont Royal's Olmsted Road to the summit for the grande finale, but we bought a couple of Coco-Rico😍 Portuguese rotisserie chickens near the end of the ride and had to carry the bag in one hand.

Weather tomorrow: less than 50% chance of rain. Feeling lucky?

Place des Montrealaises park's landscaping and lawn is now fully installed, and presently nice and green.

Shiny happy people:

Here's a CBC Arts video about the mural when it was unveiled in 2017. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPw5...

Montreal Remembers Leonard Cohen With This Massive Mural

YouTube video by CBC Arts

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Cycle Fun Montreal@cyclefunmontreal.bsky.social · 4h ago

Here's another big Leonard Cohen mural, located in the Plateau near near where his home was, at 3961 Boulevard St-Laurent (visible from Napoléon Street and St-Dominique). It's 9 stories tall, painted by Kevin Ledo. Details: cultmtl.com/2017/07/leon...

Here's another big Leonard Cohen mural, located in the Plateau near near where his home was, at 3961 Boulevard St-Laurent (visible from Napoléon Street and St-Dominique). It's 9 stories tall, painted by Kevin Ledo. Details: cultmtl.com/2017/07/leon...

Cycle Fun Montreal@cyclefunmontreal.bsky.social · last wk.

Two views of Montrealer Leonard Cohen.

Riding north through the Plateau on newly-rebuilt rue Laval street, on nice new asphalt.

Waiting for the green light on the Berri bike lane, at rue Viger.

Square Viger: named after Jacques Viger (1741 – 1805) Everything else named Viger: Mayor Jacques Viger (1787 – 1858)

1880 1923

Public-Piano Player.

Viger Square looks like this⤵️ without water. A lot nicer with water!

Cycle Fun Montreal@cyclefunmontreal.bsky.social · 9h ago

Viger Square fountain's water is back on. 18 seconds of fun⤵️ 😀

23 seconds of 💦fun in the fountains in Square Viger. 1000s of cyclists pass by here every day, very few get their daily-dose-of-fun👍 riding through the fountains. Water is only 1 inch deep, it's literally made for bikes.👍 25 feet underneath here is a major expressway, the autoroute Ville-Marie.🚗🚚🚌🚑

When I arrived at Parc Mont Royal there were a pair of young peregrine falcons frolicking over the field and around the trees. Probably 2 of the 3 Université-de-Montreal tower's 2026 young'uns.

Clock Tower beach today. More shade people today than sunshine people, bc it is hot.

Dots and circles.

Viger Square fountain's water is back on. 18 seconds of fun⤵️ 😀

Belvédère des Montrealaises.

Montreal's oculus and city hall.

Crocodile.

That guy in the back is really tall.

17 bicycle riders are going across the Pont Jacques Cartier bridge in this photo.

Closer.... closer... closer... Oh no!

Montreal's famous decaying paving stones. Once you start looking, they're everywhere. Cheaper than granite, and the paving stone company gets to sell them to us again, and again, and again...

Montreal gargoyles. (Finally I get a good photo of them.)

Place Ville Marie's reflection from Philip's Square.

Cycle Fun Montreal@cyclefunmontreal.bsky.social · 9h ago

Place Ville Marie's reflection from Viger Square.

Some very fine architectural details.

Philips Square fountain.

Place Ville Marie's reflection from Viger Square.

HEC's Édifice Hélène-Desmarais. "Hélène Desmarais, as a member of the prominent Desmarais family—tied to the Power Corporation of Canada empire—she shares in a family fortune estimated at approximately CAD $12.7 billion." Nice to see she's giving back to the community, in this and many other ways.👍