Miss Bates 🇨🇦

@missbates

aka Kay, reader, schoolmarm, spinster, Montrealer, Habs fan, reluctant Orthodox Christian, inept walker. Founder: Miss Bates Reads Romance. Retiring, but not retired. I support the right to be cold.

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Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· 26d

I am grateful to past me who made date bran muffins.

Bowl of cottage cheese, bowl of hulled strawberries, and a vintage plate with a bran muffin on a flowery cloth placemat. White paper napkin and a silver teaspoon to the left of the cottage cheese.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· 29d

Montreal’s morning sky.

Mostly bright blue sky if not for a few faint striated clouds throughout.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Jul 15

Montreal’s morning sky looks as it does because of the Ontario fires. It was yellowed yesterday afternoon.

Dark to light grey sky with swirls of light grey to white cloud cover.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Jul 4

It’s been a while, but here’s Montreal’s morning sky.

Background blue sky covered by white striated clouds.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Jul 1

I can’t take a post-dinner walk with that sky. Besides, the atmosphere, with the heat and humidity, is like suffocating soup.

Ominous sky of white to dark grey clouds, light to dark moving from the image’s right hand bottom corner towards its top left hand.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Jun 28

Evening sky on my walk.

Blue sky with a V of white wispy clouds emanating from the image’s bottom to its top.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Jun 24

Another school year ended today with the usual farewells and a luncheon. I’m now two years away from retirement. I took a post-dinner constitutional and looked to the evening sky. There’s always melancholy to the school year’s end, though relief and exhaustion too.

Blue sky covered throughout the image with fluffy white clouds.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· May 23

#GoHabsGo Another victory! Another cake!!

Round cake with black icing to make it look like a puck. Atop, in the midst of a round of white icing, the bleu-blanc-rouge Montreal Canadiens symbol.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· May 20

Montreal’s morning sky.

Blue sky with faint wispy white cloud cover mainly to the image’s left and a tuft of green tree top in the image’s bottom right corner.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· May 19

Montreal’s morning sky belongs to our Habs!

Blue sky with wisps of white cloud throughout and a small tuft of green treetop in the bottom right hand side.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· May 16

Montreal’s morning sky

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· May 12

Montreal’s morning sky.

Bright blue sky with tufts of pale green treetops in the image’s bottom left and right corners.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· May 11

Montreal’s morning sky.

Bright intense blue sky with interspersed white fluffy clouds and a green tree-top tuft in the image’s top right hand side.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· May 7

Montreal’s morning sky

Bright blue sky with tiny tree top tufts to the image’s right side and on the bottom left.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· May 6

Go Habs Go! New Habs cake!!!

Cake on white plate decorate with bright red icing and the Montreal Canadiens symbol in the middle of its top!

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· May 5

Montreal’s morning sky

In the image’s background is a light to dark grey cloud covered sky. In the foreground, in the bottom left hand corners are green leafy tree branches.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· May 3

Clutching my grubby puck. Lafleur played with this puck.

White woman’s hand holding black pick with Montreal Canadiens symbol, à red CH on white background.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· May 3

Boys are leading!!! Go Habs Go!!!!!!

White, round iced cake on white plate, with blue and red rosettes around the bottom and top edges. In the middle, a great big beautiful CH, the symbol of the Montreal Canadians hockey team!!!!

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· May 3

Montreal’s morning sky

Mainly white cloud covered sky, with a bit of blue in the image’s right hand bottom corner. Lightly leafed branches overlay the image to the right till its middle.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Apr 12

Montreal’s Paschal sky.

Bright blue morning sky with faint striations of wispy white cloud.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Apr 6

Montreal’s morning sky.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Apr 6

Good morning, friends, it appears to be snowing.

Blue ceramic mug containing frothed milk coffee sprinkled with cinnamon, on a black granite stove top.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Apr 4

Montreal’s morning sky

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Feb 9

Montreal’s morning sky.

Bright blue clear sky with bare tree tops on the image’s left and right sides.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Jan 18

And sunset over Montreal. Is there a better day than one spent breaking bread with one of your best friends, talking books, trying on clothes, and fiddling with make-up? I didn’t grade those essays. #teacherslament

Image bottom is of treetops & power lines. Above a sky of striated pink clouds ascending to light to dark blue sky.

Image right corner is of bare tree branches with a pinky sky ascending to light blue.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Jan 18

I bought myself this Denby cup yesterday & I ❤️ it.

Blue ceramic mug with frothed milk coffee on granite coloured stove-top.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Jan 18

Sun rises over Montreal. Cold, will be sunny, but the days are longer.

Bare tree branches in the foreground with yellowish to blue sky ascending in the background.

Electric wiring, flat snow-covered rooftops on the image’s bottom edge, a lantern-like light fixture in the top left-hand corner. In the background, a yellowish to light to darker blue sky ascending.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Dec 25

Montreal’s morning Christmas sky! Merry Christmas to celebrants and non, to the solitary, the partnered, and the copiously-peopled; whether you’re eating turkey or tofu, may the season bring you equanimity, meaningful books and films, long walks, friends new and old, and quiet reading mornings!

Dark to light blue mottled sky with dark to light ascending from the image’s bottom to top.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Dec 24

Montreal’s afternoon sky on my walk. More snow coming tonight.

Blue and white mottled sky with bare tree branches running along the image’s bottom.

Miss Bates 🇨🇦@missbates· Dec 23

Montreal’s morning sky.