Contributor: Bronwyn Chester

Bronwyn Chester is a Montreal-based writer and interpretor of the urban forest. She writes a weekly column in the Sunday Gazette, entitled Island of Trees, and is the founder of Les promenades dans la Forêt Montréal, an organization that creates guided tree walks. From 2008-9, she was also the author of the spacingmontreal.ca column Tree Tuesday/Le mardi des arbres.

i’ve come here early

I’ve come here early to collect my thoughts before the group arrives. I’m sitting on a concrete slab, the sort the city puts in places when they don’t want cars to go through a bit of street or parkland.