This morning we attended church. The Montréal ward Brent and Brenda attend is very diverse; lots of people from all over the world. It was fun to meet some of the ward members. Youth Sunday School was a farewell party for a young woman who is moving out of the ward and Brandt was pleased with the treats. He described them as "very inviting." At the end of the meetings, we made sure to put up all the chairs in the gym because of our pickleball date tomorrow evening.
Brandt's requisite Sunday Selfie taken in church
and milk on the breakfast table before we left.
We had a lovely lunch of burrito bowls with guacamole and tasty chicken. After we ate, we each completed a Father's Day Quiz with Brent and Kent putting in their answers to the questions, and the rest of us trying to determine what their answers would be. Brandt, Isabella, and I did it for Kent while Brenda had answers from Michelle and Ian for Brent. I won by answering 17/21 questions correctly, although both kids did pretty well with Kent. We all missed that Kent's pet peeve is long meetings, his favorite thing to drink is mango juice, his favorite dessert is chocolate mousse, and his least favorite task is car maintenance. As it was Sunday, we had a quiet afternoon, finishing up the Montréal puzzle and napping.
About 3:00pm we remembered that we wanted to go to the Fine Art Museum and raced out the door. It is only a short walk from Brent and Brenda's apartment (you can see it from the balcony), so we strolled over and then explored the museum.
The Fine Arts Museum has got some really great art from the Renaissance to contemporary art. We all liked what we saw and took pictures of the pictures.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
A Sculpture Gallery in Rome at the Time of Augustus
1867
Interesting to see an Alma-Tadema not featuring women.
I think all of his other paintings I've ever seen have women as the main theme.
Edward John Poynter
Cinderella
About 1870
Gabriel Max
The Raising of Jairus' Daughter
1878
I love this!
César Baldaccini, called César
Poulet dansant le tango
Chicken Dancing the Tango
1957
This might be my most favorite piece in the museum.
If I were to rob the museum, this is probably what I would take.
Isabella with Louise Nevelson's
Sky Cathedral
1966-1973
and
Betty Goodwin's
Tarpaulin No. 6
1975
The Leonard Cohen Cresent Street Mural
as seen from the museum.
Here is some interesting information about this mural
from a Montréal tourism website.
Led by Montréal artist Gene Pendon and internationally renowned American street portrait artist El Mac, “Tower of Songs” took 2 muralists, 13 assistant artists, 240 cans of paint and thousands of hours of work to replicate a photograph taken by his daughter, Lorca Cohen. This immense 10,000 square-foot mural rising 21 storeys above the city can easily be admired from the Mount Royal Observatory as well as from the Glass Court of the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (where we saw it).
Patrick Coutu
Eruption
2016
Five overlaid grids in brass buffed using sandblasting and glass bead blasting
This is the piece from both sides, with light shining through the piece on the left,
and light shining on the piece on the right.
John Charles Pihney
1892
The Sister Arts: Music Poetry and Painting
Brandt with painting of a young man in a suit.
I failed to take a picture of the info card that goes with the picture,
so I can say nothing about it.
Brandt and Isabella with very large heads.
No artist info.
Another Sunday Selfie
I should be smiling a bit more if I want to look like this lovely statue.
From the museum, we walked up the hill to the top of Mount Royal. It was a beautiful evening to be out in nature and the "hike" to the top wasn't horrible. In addition to the upward climbing roads and paths, we did climb 571 stairs to the top of the hill, then a few more into the building that is at the top. I didn't count those, but there are probably another 17. So all told, nearly 600 steps. My knee was all sorts of upset when we got back.
The old portion of the museum, accessible through a tunnel under the road.
This mural is on the road between a section of the museum (right)
and some other buildings on the left.
While it was not complete while we were there,
Brenda sent a picture of it finished a couple of weeks later.
A residential street just up from the musuem.
Aren't all those flowers beautiful?
The view of the city was fantastic from the top, and we were not the only ones enjoying the cityscape. We could see Brent and Brenda's apartment, the Leonard Cohen mural, the track where the Grand Prix took place earlier in the day, and the waterways. It was well worth the climb.
We saw a lot of hot cars on the way back to the apartment. People were getting out of town in their go-fast automobiles, but there was so much congestion on the streets, we were moving almost as fast walking as they were driving. But they looked better than we did putzing down the road.
We all rested a bit when we got back, although all of my people were hungry, so we pulled out leftovers from the past couple of days and ate. We talked about what we should do the rest of the week and when we should do it and finished off the day by playing Cover Your Assets.
We're having a marvelous time!
A couple more pictures of day's end. The sunset over the hill we climbed this evening. The little building just below the tall tower is where we were at.
Fewer people on the street as the race finished up today
as so did the festivities.
Our nights were much quieter the rest of the stay.
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