At The Canadian Museum Of Nature

 The Canadian Museum of Nature is one of several national museums around the National Capital. I paid a visit a few days ago in late March. Approaching from the west, I photographed the mammoth family and the building, which combines Tudor and Gothic Revival influences in its architecture.

 The walls outside have animals carved into the stone.

The glass tower is much more recent, and is called the Queens Lantern. A model of the Moon hangs inside.

Stained glass is above the doors inside the main entrance.

A visit is best done by starting on the top floor and working your way down. I photographed this perspective, looking out into the Queens Lantern and the Moon. Below hangs Gaia, a model of the Earth, which rotates in this central space. We'll see more of both as the series goes along.

My first stop was in the Arctic Gallery, which examines life in the far north. The first thing the visitor sees is this set of slabs of ice, with images projected onto them.

Beyond, the path is colourful, and features wildlife.

Of Foggy Evenings And Morning Murals

 One more day of odds and ends today. One evening in early March, I was walking home through the Glebe. Fog was settling in, and it caught my photographer's eye as I went along.

March was a weird month here, weather-wise, especially the middle of the month. During that period we got freezing rain. A day or so later I was at Lansdowne Park. On the west side of the stadium, there is a ledge along the roadway, flat metal at chest height, used by people to put their drinks down if they're walking about during games. 

This caught my eye. Freezing rain created that pattern on the shelf. How it did that is beyond me.

This bumper sticker caught my eye and made me smile.

Another morning, I was walking through the Glebe, and photographed some of the murals in the neighbourhood.

Ends And Odds Around A National Capital

Starting off today, this early February view of the future main branch of the Ottawa Public Library, as seen from the west.

During one of my Winterlude visits to Confederation Park, I photographed the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument. It combines four indigenous warriors with the eagle, the wolf, the bear, the elk, and the bison into a powerful and poignant monument.

Another night, I was passing by the Canadian Museum of Nature. I photographed the statue pair of a mother and baby dinosaur out at the east end of the property, looking oddly fitting in the snow.

I was heading past the front of the Museum. The Queens Lantern is the name of the glass tower. Inside, a model of the Moon hangs.

The purple in some of the lights caught my eye.

They also cast a glow on the main entrance. I'll have another one of these for a theme day later in the year about the colour purple.

I headed beyond, passing the family of mammoths on the west side. We'll be back for a visit to this place in a couple of days.

On yet another night, passing by Ottawa City Hall, I noticed how the Heritage Building was lit up red. 

This is a monument in progress, down along the Ottawa River near Richmond Landing. This is for the LGBT community, and should be ready for dedication sometime this year.

Late one afternoon in the latter part of February, I stopped by Billings Bridge to pick up some groceries. The sun was setting in the west, and I took two shots of the western sky, a few minutes apart, first arriving and then upon departing.

For today I finish off with a night photograph of St. Matthew's Anglican Church in the Glebe, taken on a foggy evening in early March. We'll pick up here tomorrow

Odds And Ends Around A National Capital

 I have some odds and ends from the last few months for you over the next three days. I start with these shots from before Christmas, when I was returning across the Ottawa River on the Alexandra Bridge from a visit to the Museum of History. I photographed the Ottawa skyline over the frozen river.

I used the bridge itself to frame Kiweki Point.

My path took me past the Peacekeeping Monument, with Notre Dame in the background.

I hadn't posted this shot from the Christmas market at Lansdowne. At the east side of the Aberdeen Pavilion, there had been a spot with regularly carved ice sculptures.

Late in the month, passing through the Glebe neighbourhood, I photographed this building I've passed by on occasion. It is in fact a church, a Quaker congregation.

In mid-January, back at Lansdowne Park, I photographed the Aberdeen Pavilion at night.

I've been occasionally photographing the development of the future main branch of the Ottawa Public Library at Lebreton Flats. The building will also house some space for Library and Archives Canada. Most of the work now is being done inside. I took this shot from the north in January.

One day I stopped by the National Gallery of Canada briefly. This looks up through the reflecting pool from below.

Outside, Maman by Louise Bourgeois is always worth taking a photo of.

I attended a PWHL game at Lansdowne. The game is fast paced, and the crowd enjoys it.

In early February, out in Nepean, I took time to photograph a church I haven't photographed since before Covid, I believe. Julian of Norwich Anglican Church stands out well in winter.