Happy Beltane, Happy International Workers’ Day, Happy May Day!
On my last day of a weekend trip to Montreal, after looking for the Green Man on various churches and, uh, old buildings (okay, I am no student of architecture), I came across these faces near where I was staying. These variations on the Green Man are at Windsor Station, on rue de La Gauchetière/ avenue des Canadiens. Given that the street was filled two days earlier with an anticipatory crowd for the hockey game at the Bell Centre forum, it seems appropriate that these faces are smiling together at eye level, rather than in solitary isolation high above.
A couple of them look like they might have been in brawl.
What kind of leaves are these? I begin to doubt whether these are green men or faces depicting something else….
These delicate faces pose the question: are there Green Women?
DEBRA MARTENS 