Sara here is painting a stump, the last step in the “Ruelle Verte” project happening behind my apartment on rue de Rouen. “La Ruelita” is the name of the project, I guess. “The little alley.”

“Thanks to the Sainte-Marie Eco-Quartier!” (the neighbourhood recycling and ecological org. responsible for the project)

A spiral – traditional symbol of creativity:

Here’s a view of the finished project.

More done on the back alley garden, behind my place (okay, it’s rue de Rouen between rues Shepherd and Chapleau). Art stuff, and decoration this time. I got roped in to help. My neighbour, pictured up above, got into trying to fasten his tableau to a brick wall.

Me, I would have tried to drill into the mortar rather than the concrete brick, but I wasn’t into bossing people around too much!

I helped set up the little fence (and take photos of the others working, as below):

Success!

Job well done. It’s pleasant here, now, and I feel like hanging out, sometimes.

The local Eco Quartier (a little neighbourhood org. that does recycling, gardening, and ecologically-oriented projects) visited the lane behind my apartment, which was generally a down at the heels place, full of burdock and junk. They instigated a project of planting a garden back there. It’s part of an initiative called ruelle verte.

Notice these are all women working here. Men like me came around, but mostly to kibitz and comment. I don’t know why it worked out this way.

At any rate, it turned out quite pleasantly. From kind of a waste area to somewhere you might like to spend time:

Next week, we’re putting up some art, and painting this stump. Pictures of that when it happens.

Mr. Boggedy approves: