Where summers are short, we must celebrate them intensely!
Montreal knows this, and her people glory in markets and street life, exploding with fresh flavors and colors. I’ve taken you along, in an earlier post, to Atwater Market. Today, we visit Marche Jean-Talon, with a stop in Vieux Montreal.
Whatever season currently prevails where you live, immerse yourself for a few moments in summer!
Fruit makes her happy!
Figs
Pick a peck of purple peppers
Pick your own
Hydrangeas
A fuzzy flower
Are these parsnips?
Huge raspberries!
Maple syrup, of course!
Foxtail flower!
Too pretty to eat?
Many, many eggs
Garlic
Blues
Carrots showing off
Browns
Sunny faces
Garlic silhouette
Currants and ground cherries and more
Peppers
Green and white perfection
Now that’s a summer eclair!
Bright yellow inside
Flowers outside
Flowers inside
Flowers everywhere
Enjoying summer
Canadian flags
Old Montreal
On the wall
Love Those "Hands at Home" 
Oh! I see a can (in your pictures) of the same wonderful maple syrup that a friend brought me back from Quebec. It is so light and tasty and you’ll want to have French toast or pancakes every morning after tasting that yummy syrup :0)
I love those cans! Here in the US, we see maple syrup mostly in plastic jugs or small glass bottles. The cans have a cool retro vibe!
French-speaking Canada is very high on my list of must-visit destinations. You’ve whetted my appetite even more.
We live 20 minutes from the border and should spend much more time exploring than we do. Quebec really feels like a different country, unlike the English parts of Canada (which are wonderful, too, at least what I’ve seen!) When you come, do take the time to go to Ottawa–not French-speaking but an altogether wonderful city!
Will do. Our only visit so far took in Vancouver and Vancouver Island. We loved both. Thanks for the travel tips!
Master Weaver Sharon Alderman once said that in designing color in a textile, look at what colors appear together in nature. Your pictures truly inspire! What fun those markets must be!
You know, since I’ve started weaving (very recently) I find myself looking at plants and fruits and thinking “that would make a pretty twill”, etc. Going to these markets is truly a feast for all the senses.
Your photos are luscious. And those raspberry eclairs, c’est magnifique!
Aren’t they gorgeous? The patisserie is the same at both Atwater and Jean-Talon and their items are so tempting!
Well…it is obvious…you love this market ;0)
I do, indeed! What’s not to love? 😉
Wonderful photos of summer 🙂
Thanks–they had all the ingredients in one place!
Oh my, now I’m hungry. I know parsnips aren’t photogenic but boy do they taste good.
I’m not sure I’ve ever eaten parsnips–I think they should demand a new, more appealing name. We got very hungry looking at everything and came home with an indecent amount of food!
Do try roast parsnips. They are divine.
These photos are gorgeous, and that paw paw looks delicious! xx
Thanks, Jess! We bought an awful lot of food to bring home!
tres bon! roasted parsnips in the winter are comfort food.
Several people commented on the parsnips . . . I guess I’m going to need to break down and try them!
What fabulous photos – what a wonderful market! I’m just a teeny bit envious! 🙂
I bet you have such markets in your part of the world, too (at least when the season is right!) Montreal gives me a way to feel like I’m in Europe when I’m just an hour from home!
Your pictures are terrific. I wish I knew how to lay out pictures on WordPress better. I never really learned. I’m not surprised that people in Montreal know how to soak up summer. I saw that attitude in Sweden when I was there in the mid-1990s. Another place where summer is short.
Thanks for visiting! If you want some ideas about how to use your photos in different ways, you could check out this help page from WordPress:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/
I like the option for a gallery in the “tiled mosaic” style.
Now I’m REALLY hungry.
😀
We were, too! So we bought ridiculous amounts of food and now are rushing to finish it up. The breads already got stale . . . 😦
Oh so lovely. I have indulged greatly in this lovely market. I am now wondering about goose eggs and duck eggs. I have eaten turkey eggs; very rich.
I’m not sure I’ve ever had any of those eggs–it was wonderful to see them all lined up there.
This is wonderful!! I feel like I’m in the market..for I can smell the fruit and flowers ,see all the color,hear the crowd and feel the jostling ….the only thing I can’t do is plop a raspberry in my mouth!!!
The thing I didn’t mention is that all the vendors wanted us to taste! We had bits of plums and pluots and oranges, and, yes, those raspberries!
This is my kind of post, I loved gawking at your stunning photo’s. Thanks for sharing!
So glad to have appreciative readers to share with–it makes going to the market even more fun!
your photos are very well-taken.. professional looking too.. the Strawberry eclairs are to die for.. 😛 LOL.. i wish it could pop out from the screen for us to savor it.. it looks so yummy in the picture.. *slurp*
Thanks–it’s not too hard to take good photos of beautiful things!
Markets smell so good, don’t they? All the fresh natural flavours, combined with the dirt trodden by many feet, and the fresh wind mixing it all together. It sure beats plastic wrap and floor cleaner at Woolworth’s 🙂
Yes! And this market is in the Little Italy section of the city so you can add good smells from the restaurants to the mix!
Montreal looks awesome in the summer.
Montreal is humming in the summer! But they have a good time in winter, too–they have to–it lasts a LONG time!
I love markets and fresh food. Thank for sharing all these beautiful photos. I enjoyed looking through!
We ended up bringing too much home–we had to scurry to eat it all!
Seems to be wonderful market!
It is beautiful and abundant–always worth a visit!