Mixed

I have some odds and ends today. I start with this view of the Rideau Canal at Plaza Bridge, taken on Remembrance Day, looking to where the locks descend down to the river.

The mural in the background is one that I showed you some months back, at the north end of the Glebe. A short time after it was completed, a concrete foundation was poured here in the foreground. Given the location, it seemed obvious that a sign for the neighbourhood would be installed here, and that was the case. At some point in the first half of November this colourful sign was placed. 

Further south in the Glebe is a small pharmacy. Among their products are compression socks, and there's an ad outside for the product with several photos, each with one word attached. The last being relax.

The cat doesn't look relaxed. The cat looks like it's thinking, "I have conquered you, lowly human! You are mine to do with as I see fit! If I want to lie on top of you for eighteen hours, I will!"

I was in Major's Hill Park one day in mid-November and looked across to the American embassy. The election had confirmed a return to sanity south of the border (though not in the mind of the incumbent) and the Stars and Stripes seemed to be flying with more purpose.

A short while later I was passing by the National Arts Centre and the statue of Oscar Peterson caught my attention. Done in 2010 and unveiled by the Queen, the statue is by the sculptor Ruth Abernethy, and finds the jazz great looking like he's taking in applause from his audience. Music by Oscar plays on speakers hidden above. The bench is big enough for photo ops. 

In my view, he's one of the greatest jazz musicians in the genre, and the best musician Canada has ever produced.

Oscar and some disreputable Canadian. In the background is the British High Commission and one of the buildings comprising The Chambers.

The York Steps descend from Major's Hill Park down into the Byward Market. They often are turned into a work of art. This year it is called Birds Of A Feather.

One morning earlier in the month I was out to photograph the dawn from the Flora Bridge, a pedestrian bridge that crosses the Rideau Canal and links the Glebe with Old Ottawa East. This home on the east side caught my eye.

I mentioned The Chambers above. These three buildings face the War Memorial downtown. The three buildings are collectively called that, with Central Chambers at left, the Bell Block in the middle, and the Scottish Ontario Chambers at right.

Last year during the theme days for CDP, which were dominated by colour themes, I showed several utility boxes downtown that have a fashion sort of motif to them. This is one that I hadn't shown before.

Here we have a view of the Peacekeeping Monument downtown on a cold December day.

And I finish off with this, taken in Little Italy. Piazza Dante is a terrace park in the neighbourhood, across from St. Anthony Catholic Church. I passed by on a snowy evening, brushed off the snow on the top of the bust of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, and took this shot.