Beautiful, living blades sprout heroically from the soil each spring, providing vernal joy for urban residents, as all appreciate the pleasure of lush, gorgeous green grass lawns.
But hold tight, Montreal's supposedly environment-loving municipal administration Projet Montreal is proposing to replace our beloved grass, citing high mowing costs.
The proposal is outrageously obscene, of course, but particularly because Montreal falls far short of supplying the minimum hectare-per-resident municipal standard of public green space.
So Projet Montreal has no legitimate excuse for being unable to maintain Montreal's relatively small supply of grass.
Anybody who has ventured into a city of Montreal park within the last couple of years has noticed that grass has been tragically neglected, as straggling weeds sprout up where the blades once gloriously rose.
Allowing - or even encouraging such neglect - harms everybody, but particularly the poor, or any condo or apartment dweller who does not have access to their own private lawn.
Projet Montreal announced this week that city councillor Eric Alan Caldwell has been given the unenviable and futile task of finding a replacement for grass.
What on earth could possibly be better than grass? Mud? Weeds? Concrete?
And yes that's the same Projet Montreal party which for years has claimed to care deeply about green spaces and the environment.
Montrealers still suffer the consequences of the last grass mowing-saving initiative from the 1950s, as asphalt covers linear lawns designed to line sidewalks in many parts of town.
Be vigilant in your opposition to this attack on grass, or brace for a similar nightmare.
The Projet Montreal needs to enthusiastically tackle its duty to protect and nourish grassy green spaces, no dereliction of that duty should be tolerated.