Discover This project is part of the Blink and you miss it. project.

There are Mountains, there is a Sequence

Head east toward the weekend on Highway 10.
You have driven this route so many times
you barely notice the turnoffs marking miles, kilometres
towards getting there. Towards sleep or rest
or walk, or build or ski. Air or mountain.

You get a note from the architects of the universe saying:
you are passing history on your left, on your right quicker
than you register, faster than the signs for exits, casse croûtes.
There are hills older than a hundred million years
the magma rose and cooled and displaced crustal rock.

Mont Oka, Mont Royal. With their hidden plumes of light, intrusions
in the plain, mouths of earth pressed up against the sky.
Mont Saint-Bruno, Mont Saint-Hilaire and space for air
and road and farm. These hills – you’ve heard their names before –
or live there – or walked them as a child – Mont Saint-Grégoire, Mont Rougemont,

found leaves or apple orchards, uprisings, forests. Mont Yamaska, Mont Shefford,
and a car speeds by, a truck. Mont Brome, beyond the belted Appalaches
Mont Mégantic. The line, the lineage of mountains aligns you to and from the ville,
before the city and after, their language plumes up in whispers saying,
attend, attendre, even as you pass.

Regardez bien, elles sont là

Prenez la 10 vers l’ouest vers la ville
Puisque ce chemin vous est si familier
vous apercevez à peine les tournants
où l’on voit combien loin est l’arrivée. La maison familiale, les lumières
des bureaux, le boulot, la semaine vous attendent là-bas.

Vous obtenez une note des architectes de l’univers indiquant que
vous traversez l’histoire sur votre droite, plus rapidement sur votre gauche, plus rapidement
que ce que vous percevez, plus rapidement que les indicateurs de sortie, les casse-croûtes.
Certaines collines font plus de cent millions d’années
le magma rose et refroidi et la mouvance sédimentaire de la croûte.

Mont Mégantic s’offre à vous, puis Brome. Avec leurs plumes de lumières cachées,
les intrusions dans la plaine, bouches de terre accolées au ciel.
Et puis Mont Shefford, Mont Yamaska, et une étendue pour l’air et le chemin et la ferme.
Ces collines – leurs noms vous sont familiers – peut-être même vous y habitez –
ou, jeunes, vous les avez parcourues – Mont Rougemont, Mont Saint-Grégoire

feuilles ramassées ou vergers de pommes, soulèvements, forêts. Mont Saint-Hilaire,
Mont Saint-Bruno.
Et un camion passe à grande vitesse, une voiture. Mont Royal
suivi du Mont Oka. La ligne, la lignée des montagnes vous enlignent vers la ville,
vous y éloignent, là, avant la ville puis après elle, toujours en attente,
leurs langages foisonnent en chuchotements

attendez, attendre, murmurent-elles, au moment-même de votre passage.

– Ronna Bloom, 2016

  1. A Conversation of Views
  2. Admiral Road Garden
  3. Airdrie Road Garden
  4. Airdrie Road Residence
  5. Albany Avenue Residence
  6. Alcina Garden
  7. Alexandra Park
  8. Alwington Landscape / Garden Pavilion
  9. Aporia Records
  10. Ardwick Townhouses
  11. Asphalt Poetry
  12. – Poem
  13. Baby Point Gardens
  14. Beach Garden
  15. Beach Village BIA Master Plan
  16. Beaty Residence
  17. Bennington Hts Garden
  18. Bennington Hts Ravine Garden 1
  19. Berkeley Street Residence
  20. Billie Wilder Therapy Garden
  21. Bin-Scarth Garden
  22. Blink and you miss it.
  23. – Poem
  24. Bloor St. Apartment
  25. Blue Note
  26. Booth Avenue Residence
  27. Boustrophedon Garden
  28. Braemore Gardens Residence
  29. Brahms Townhouses
  30. Browning Avenue Residence
  31. Brunswick Avenue Residence
  32. Camp Arowhon Offices
  33. Canadian Firefighters Memorial
  34. Catch / Renew / Release
  35. Channelled Buried Moved Lost
  36. Chocolate Loft
  37. City Instrument
  38. Clarendon Garden
  39. Concord Canada House
  40. Conversation Piece
  41. Cortleigh Boulevard Garden
  42. Creemore Farm
  43. Danforth Children's Dentistry
  44. Danforth Mosaic BIA Master Plan
  45. Danforth Parkettes
  46. Dickson Park Garden
  47. Dilworth Residence
  48. Don Landing Revitalization
  49. Dublin Grounds of Remembrance
  50. Duncanwoods Townhouses
  51. Dundas Roncesvalles Peace Garden
  52. Dupont-by-the-Castle BIA
  53. East Point Bird Sanctuary
  54. Eglinton Ave. Forecourt
  55. Eglinton Park Implementation - Phase I
  56. Eglinton Park Master Plan
  57. Elizabeth Fry Society
  58. Ellsworth Residence
  59. Face to Face | Tête à Tête
  60. First Avenue Garden
  61. First Avenue Residence
  62. First Avenue Residence Kitchen
  63. Flyover Canada
  64. Foote’s Pond Wood
  65. Forest Hill Village Streetscape
  66. Gaze, Glimpse, Glance
  67. Glen Road Ravine
  68. Global Affairs Monument
  69. Goldring Landscape, University of Toronto
  70. Gormley Garden
  71. Governor's Bridge Lookout
  72. – North
  73. Greener P
  74. Greer Road Garden
  75. Greer Road Residence
  76. Guelph Bridge
  77. Gwynne Garden
  78. Head in the Clouds
  79. Helena Avenue Residence 5
  80. Helena Ave Residence 4
  81. Hillcrest Streetscape
  82. Jean Tweed Addition & Laneway House
  83. Junction Craft Brewery
  84. Keating Bridge Landscape
  85. Kelpies Competition
  86. Keswick Garden
  87. Kew Gardens Streetscape
  88. King's Landing Residence
  89. Kipling & Islington Developments
  90. Lakeport Beach Neighbourhood
  91. Le jardin du repos
  92. Lenticular Curtain
  93. Leslie Slip Lookout Park
  94. Liberty Village Parkettes
  95. Liza’s Garden
  96. Lost Stations
  97. Lynwood Garden
  98. Macroscape
  99. Makwa Waakaa'igan
  100. Markham Garden One
  101. Markham Street Residence Two
  102. Massey College Landscape Restoration
  103. Midtown Yonge Streetscape
  104. Montreal Holocaust Memorial Competition
  105. Mount Dennis Parkettes
  106. Mulock Park
  107. – Conservatory – The Glass Hall
  108. – Bridge and Riverine
  109. – Skate Pavilion and Trail
  110. – Artist Studio
  111. – Maintenance Building
  112. – Heritage House
  113. – Playscape
  114. – Gardens, Forests, and Ecology
  115. Nathan Phillips Square
  116. – Streetscape
  117. – Peace Garden
  118. – Podium Roof Garden
  119. Octane Medical Campus
  120. Orchard View Garden
  121. Osgoode Atkinson Green Competition
  122. Owl Cottage
  123. Paperstone Scissors
  124. Pendrith Residence
  125. Peripheral Sitings
  126. Pottery Road Crossing
  127. rare
  128. Ravine Forecourt
  129. Ribbon of the Lower Don
  130. Riverside BIA Master Plan
  131. Roxborough Garden One
  132. Roxborough Garden Two
  133. Schulich School of Business
  134. Sheridan College
  135. – Trafalgar Campus Master Plan
  136. Six Points Park Masterplan
  137. – Dunkip Park
  138. – 6PP Expansion
  139. Spadina Quay Wetland
  140. St. Anne's Road Garden
  141. St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts
  142. Stratford Market Square Competition
  143. Stratford Patterson Theatre Competition
  144. Superkids Dental
  145. Superlegible
  146. Sweet Farm
  147. Sweet Farm Pond House
  148. Swift Medical Offices
  149. The Dragon
  150. The Meadows Reconsidered
  151. The Red Sash
  152. The Sara Jackman Playground
  153. Thick & Thin
  154. Thistletown II Townhouses
  155. Tipping Point
  156. TMU Centre for Urban Innovation
  157. TMU Science Building
  158. Tranby Garden
  159. Tree House Residence
  160. UBC Okanagan – The Commons
  161. UHN Tunnels
  162. University of Toronto Mississauga Welcome Centre
  163. UW Mathematics Landscape
  164. Venice Biennale 2012
  165. Vermont Square Park
  166. Vernon Avenue Garden
  167. Walker Townhouse Courtyard
  168. Walk the Walk
  169. Walmer Road Residence
  170. Welland Canal Fallen Workers Memorial
  171. Wellesley Cottages Garden
  172. Wells Street Residence
  173. Wendat Square
  174. Westminster Residence
  175. Weston Village BIA Masterplan
  176. With Words as Their Actions
  177. Woodlawn Avenue Residence
  178. Woven Stories
  179. Wynford Drive Residences
  180. York Park
  181. Yorkwoods Townhouses
  182. Young Centre for the Perfoming Arts