Commissioners Park at Dow's Lake is the largest site for the Tulip Festival, and some days after my post from yesterday I came through to see the tulips, most of which hadn't opened up yet. But there was colour to be found. I started at the south end of the park, where the Rideau Canal widens into the lake, and where several houses are probably the backdrop for thousands of photos this time of year, every year.
Ottawa Daily Photo
Wanderings Of A Canadian Loon Through The National Capital And Beyond
Monday, May 16, 2022
At The Lake
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Green Tulips
A good number of you have been awaiting the tulips, and so today we begin another extended series. The Canadian Tulip Festival is underway here in Ottawa and Gatineau, looking more like itself after the last two years in which the tulips were on display as you'd expect, but no associated programming,
I was in Major's Hill Park one day in the first days of May and took this photograph of Colonel John By, the British military engineer who oversaw the building of the Rideau Canal and is considered the founder of the city. Around the statue and beyond it, tulips were popping up out of the soil, but not yet showing their colours.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Spring Garden
Friday, May 13, 2022
Spring Colours
One day around the middle of April I was approaching the grounds of the Peacekeeping Monument and noticed small flowers popping up on the lawn. I took time to photograph them.
This view from the other side of the lawn looks under a portion of the monument and includes Parliament Hill and Major's Hill Park in the background.