I've been seeing these pink flowering Magnolia trees all around town, they only bloom for about a week and even that depends on weather. This one is in the backyard of a house that backs onto the old part of the Lachine canal, in Lachine proper. You can see part of the canal retainer wall in the foreground.
Magnolia tree spring Lachine, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, May 2026
Looking west along the old canal, there is a bike and pedestrian bridge in the foreground, and another footbridge in the background. On the right you see part of st Joseph blvd, and all around are green trees and green grass. I used a lot of bismuth vanadate yellow (PY184) to make all the chartreuse colours today.
Old Canal Lachine bridge, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, May 2026
A bike path winds its way along the piece of land between the old canal and the marina. There was a city-plan to 'blow up' this whole sector for five years in order to pave it over with marble interlocking bricks and fountains, but people complained and thankfully so. Its fine the way it is.
Ess shape bike path, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, May 2026
An old industrial plot has sat empty for many years now, but today I saw that an enormous construction pit was dug deep into the earth. For about two or three stories down its a yellow-ochre earthy shale, then it turns to greyish bedrock. Trees would have put their roots down here, now it will end up being a parking garage. It was interesting to see what the land looked like underneath, you see a section of it towards the right of the pit. The back and left had tall retaining walls.
Lachine pit, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, May 2026
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