Just a couple of pedal strokes away from my apartment, I chanced upon this:
I don't know whether the two crossed posts were intended to prop up the wires or the light fixture. Perhaps they were intended as a monument to something. Whatever their purpose, they looked ominious against a sky ready to drop its wrath.
For a moment, I recalled a cross I reached (but didn't bear) on bicycle:
Yes, that is the Croix de Fer on top of Mount Royal in Montreal. It's visible from just about anywhere in the city. (At least, it seemed to be when I last rode there, about a dozen years ago.) The 1974 World Championships were held in Montreal; a Belgian racer said the climb up Mount Royal was one of the most difficult climbs he encountered in his career.
Said Belgian won the race. Three guesses as to who he was...
(Yes, Eddy Mercx.)
Now, I wonder what the "cross" in my neighborhood was made from. I don't think it's fer.
I don't know whether the two crossed posts were intended to prop up the wires or the light fixture. Perhaps they were intended as a monument to something. Whatever their purpose, they looked ominious against a sky ready to drop its wrath.
For a moment, I recalled a cross I reached (but didn't bear) on bicycle:
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| Photo by Mute* |
Yes, that is the Croix de Fer on top of Mount Royal in Montreal. It's visible from just about anywhere in the city. (At least, it seemed to be when I last rode there, about a dozen years ago.) The 1974 World Championships were held in Montreal; a Belgian racer said the climb up Mount Royal was one of the most difficult climbs he encountered in his career.
Said Belgian won the race. Three guesses as to who he was...
(Yes, Eddy Mercx.)
Now, I wonder what the "cross" in my neighborhood was made from. I don't think it's fer.
