Pictures
Jason Kuznicki on Jul 28th 2004
Bleh.
Posting pictures is a lot of work, particularly with the primitive photo software I’m using. What’s more, Dave Jansing has already posted a great photo essay on the GALA Choruses Montreal festival over at Temperantia.
But a promise is a promise, so here are some pictures of Scott, me, and the two of us at our anniversary.
First, Scott. This one was taken at Montreal’s enormous botanical garden. The car in the background is a VW Beetle covered entirely in violets. You know, flower power and all.
The flowery bug was actually one of the sillier exhibits at the gardens; on a more serious note, they also have the largest bonsai collection outside of Asia, which was fantastic:
And here I am at the waterfront in downtown Montreal:
I never take good pictures, which brings me to…
…the two of us at our anniversary dinner. On the left, you can see Dave and his friend Larry, who is closer to the camera. I figure it’s the least I can do for someone who has spared me the trouble of posting my other Montreal pictures.
Scott is holding a glass of the same mead that we first drank at our wedding one year earlier. The plan is to open one or two bottles every year for our anniversary–but never to touch it otherwise. I wrote about this mead in “The Life of the Party,” where I noted that last year it still hadn’t aged quite enough. Now it’s over a year and a half old, making it much, much better.
This time around it had surprising but very pleasant notes of vanilla and bitter chocolate; the earlier harshness had entirely disappeared. In theory, this beverage could just keep on getting better for as long as a decade, making it yet another reason to look forward to the years ahead.
Oh, and if we look a little tipsy, it’s probably because we were.
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