Spring Colours Around The City

More various locations for tulips today- these being front yards in the Glebe. 

First time for everything- here we have tulips photographed at night, with a strong light source off to the right. These are outside the Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne.

On another day, I passed by the Lord Elgin Hotel and photographed these.

Across the street is Confederation Park. There are a few tulips here, but the spring blossoms really caught my eye.

The aforementioned tulips, which are generally left in the ground to come back in the spring.

Close by, more tulips in a wooded traffic island just north of the park.

At the west edge of Confederation Square is the entrance to Sparks Street. Tulips in the foreground, and one of the entrances to the main post office in the background.

Sparks Street is a pedestrian mall. I continued walking to include tulips in photos.

The building in the background is the main annex to the Library of Parliament; Parliament Hill is one block north. As the work continues on the Hill, the annex is the primary locale for the Library at present. We've been inside before, and I hope to get in for Doors Open in a few days.

One more shot on Sparks Street.

And rounding things out for today, this was the last shot I took of tulips for the year- on the grounds of Library and Archives Canada looking towards the Supreme Court. This was taken on Thursday, en route to an event at the War Museum. I had missed getting here a week or so earlier, and hadn't expected them to still be blooming. We'll return to this series after the theme day.

Various Locations

 One day during the festival, I stopped by the Canadian War Museum. Planters around the front and side include tulips.

At the north side of the Museum is a full bed of tulips.

This particular day included heading over the Ottawa River into Gatineau to photograph tulips over there. Along the way, I stopped across from City Hall, with these tulips in a planter in the foreground.

Coming back from Gatineau, I photographed tulips, with the Chateau Laurier as the background.

A short walk away in the downtown core, more tulips in a raised garden outside an office building. Note the statue in the background, as you may remember it. It's part of a pair of sculptures of an indigenous hunter and a deer, unseen to the right.

On another day, I photographed these tulips at a residence near Commissioners Park.

These were outside St. Giles Presbyterian Church in the Glebe.

And my last shot for today- a bunny near a tulip in a front yard in the Glebe.

Beside The Canal

 Continuing where I left off yesterday, there's a small bed of tulips across from the main bed I showed yesterday.

I continued walking along the Canal, where there are more tulips along the way.

There is a bed that's on a raised wall here.

The path leads towards the Flora Bridge, which links the Glebe with Old Ottawa East on the far shore. A bed of tulips was in the foreground.

Beyond the bridge, and beside a pond linked to the Canal, another bed of tulips.

Olympic Shades

 Just off the property of Lansdowne Park, beside the Rideau Canal, lies a particularly photogenic bed of tulips, in a circle around a statue that was placed here for the Calgary Winter Olympics. Note beyond the trees- there's a boat on the Canal.

As the path winds around the bed entirely, I started around.

Here at the far side, through a gap in the trees, we can see the Aberdeen Pavilion.

We'll carry on here tomorrow.