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 September 2008, 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.