Though I introduced the lawn in Melbourne the other day, I would like to introduce lawn in other places too.
The photo is lawn in the village of Percé. I took the photo in September 2009. Percé is a small town near the tip of the Gaspé (or Gaspésie) Peninsula in Quebec on the east coast of Canada.
Gaspé (=Gaspésie) comes from the Aboriginal word Gespeg which means “Land’s end”. It is the land where the French explorer Jacques Cartier landed on the mainland of Canada, for the first time as a European in 1534. It was about 10 hours of drive from Montreal where I used to live in those days. It was really “the end of the land”.
There is Percé Rock in the village of Percé. “Percé” means “pierced” in French.
It is a massive rock with a hole in it, as the name indicates.
I simply spent several days by taking a walk and watching the rock. It’s one of the most memorable places I’ve ever been. It’s a place where I want to visit someday, once again, though it is so far from Japan.
