In celebration of Mother's Day...

We spent the day in Old Montreal yesterday, taking in some of the old historic sites like this.

Notre-Dame Basilica (French: Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal) is a basilica in the historic district of Old Montreal, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The church's Gothic Revival architecture is among the most dramatic in the world; its interior is grand and colourful, its ceiling is coloured deep blue and decorated with golden stars, and the rest of the sanctuary is a polychrome of blues, azures, reds, purples, silver, and gold. It is filled with hundreds of intricate wooden carvings and several religious statues. Unusual for a church, the stained glass windows along the walls of the sanctuary do not depict biblical scenes, but rather scenes from the religious history of Montreal. It also has a Casavant Frères pipe organ, dated 1891, which comprises four keyboards, 92 stops using electropneumatic action and an adjustable combination system, 7000 individual pipes and a pedal board.

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Place d'Armes, adjacent to le Basilique Notre-Dame in Old Montréal.

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A fashion shoot on a warm spring day in Old Montreal.

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Street shooting in Old Montreal, May 2015.

LOVE is an iconic Pop Art image by American artist Robert Indiana. It consists of the letters LO over the letters VE; the O is canted sideways so that its oblong negative space creates a line leading to the V. The original image, with green and blue spaces backing red lettering, served as a print image for a Museum of Modern Art Christmas card in 1964. In much this same form the design soon graced a popular US postage stamp. Its original rendering in sculpture was made in 1970 and is displayed in Indiana at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Indiana's LOVE design has since been reproduced in a variety of formats for rendering in displays around the world.

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This guy. The one-wheeled contraption he was riding was a cross between a unicycle and Segway - without the seat or the handle. An electric motor was propelling him repeatedly around Place d'Armes in Old Montreal.

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