Neat Photos

A link posted today on Everyday_Inspirations:

Little Darlings

She’s really big on birds and her Papillons are quite cute, but her flowers are spectacular, as is “The Beauty of Winter in Ontario, Canada” in the Creative Challenge album.

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Ever Wonder Where…

…Montréal got its name?

“The largest city in the Canadian province of Québec and the largest inland port in the world, Montréal takes its name from a distinctive landscape feature at the center of the city. Mont-Royal (“royal mountain” in French) rises to an elevation of 233 meters (about 764 feet) at Colline de la Croix peak. The mountain is sometimes identified in guidebooks as an extinct volcano, but the types of igneous rock found at Mont-Royal suggest the mountain is more likely to be the remnants of magma chambers that once fed surface volcanoes than a surface volcano itself.…”