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Much of the area East of home is largely unfamiliar to me except for occasional visits to farm equipment dealers and auction sales. Very pretty country with small mostly francophone communities just a little too far from Ottawa(or Montreal I suppose) for most commuters. On Saturday I took a tour around Bourget and a hike in Larose Forest.



In front of the church was this interesting piece of art, which judging from the concrete pedestal is permanent. There were some banners around advertising "l'art en Bourget" on until the 20th, but this was all I found(well there might have been something in the church but there was a mass on.) My barely-used-since-high-school French was able to discern that this ultralight aircraft carcass was obtained from a government surplus store I had stopped in along the way. (Computer geeks will be interested to see that right in the back of this shot are a number of Pentium Pro servers, back in the day they were monsters.)



The orange colour on the bulls-eye it's crashing into is representative of this building, another Bourget landmark.



Larose Forest is actually man-made, my great-uncle did some work on it back in the 50's.





Now the set these below are from was posted, oh two weeks ago, but I didn't mention them. My Dad sold a hundred bales of straw to an organic produce farm up near Wakefield, closer to Low actually, so we took a tour through that region, crossed at Cumberland and went up around by Edelweiss.



Amazingly, up until this year the trip would have been illegal, the truck and driver would have had to have been registered in Québec(notwithstanding a number of loopholes,) even my cousin's mere "1-ton" dualie here. File that under reasons Québec is a "have not" province.