I agree that Montreal was beautiful! Over here in the "wild west" you'd be hard pressed to find much architecture older than about 120 years. I walked down rue Notre Dame and I have to say coming up on the old stone walls of the uh... priest's quarters (? My photo of the grounds didn't include the plaque on the gates and I can't remember what it was and there's not a lot on Google clear enough to read.
) attached to the Basillica was like stepping back 300 years into the past. Surreal! I knew the church was coming up, I could see the spires, but the walls snuck up on me.
If it hadn't been raining, I could have walked for hours and looked at the buildings. As it was, I came back with tons of quilting inspiration from the beautiful stone work.
