Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Aftermath

The day after yesterday's post I was out to go to Little Italy and took some shots as I went along. Here we see a small channel of the Ottawa River below in the ravine. You may remember I featured it at the end of last month, photographed from a bridge on the other side. The river is swift enough in this channel that it remains open until it rejoins the main body of the river.


Nearby is the national Canadian Firefighters Memorial.


My path led me on. These two street views include a large stone building on the high ground. That's the Dominican University College, which has a focus in degrees on theology and philosophy.


Snow piled up alongside the streets here is waiting to be taken away by crews that usually start circulating after the roads have been cleared by the plows.


We got quite a bit out of this storm.


I wanted a shot of the texture of a snow pile. This suited me.


Continuing on, the Plant Bath is a community centre where Little Italy and Chinatown meet. A statue is out front commemorating the Vietnam boat people.


And this is a church in Little Italy, St. Hyacinth, a Roman Catholic parish that ministers to the Polish community.

42 comments:

  1. You have a long time to wait for spring ... there is so much snow!
    The two statues are beautiful, and so is the small church!

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  2. Beautiful snowy scenes, William !

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  3. There is still a lot of snow overthere!

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  4. Okay, you win, you've had more snow again this winter. :-)

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  5. I like the winter street scenes.

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  6. The confluence of Little Italy, Chinatown and a monument to Vietnamese boat people. That's a very agreeable representation of what makes Canada the country we are all so happy to call our home. Thank you for reminding us of this, William.

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  7. ...at this point snow is hopefully in our rearview mirror.

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  8. I love the blue skies and shadows in your snowy photos:)

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  9. I enjoy scenes of Ottawa streets, even covered in snow.

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  10. That sure is a lot of snow! The church is a welcome relief!

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  11. @Ella: our winter is long.

    @Karl: thank you.

    @Marianne: less now.

    @Jan: we get a good amount.

    @Francisco: thank you.

    @Anvilcloud: so do I.

    @David: I agree.

    @Tom: we can still get some.

    @Rosie: blue skies in winter mean cold days.

    @Marie: I do as well.

    @DJan: typical for us.

    @Magiceye: thank you!

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  12. I'm hoping that we are finished with snow of any large quantities.

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  13. Lovely wintry street scenes ~ great photos ~

    Happy Week to you,

    Living moment to moment,

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  14. Okay, I know you like snow...lots of it. You have a lot of snow on those narrow streets.

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  15. You passed a lot of snow along the way!

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  16. That's a few tons of snow along those streets. The texture on the snowpile was a nice closeup. I thought that underneath it might even be some grass or flowers, which have to wait a month or more still before seeing the light of day.

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  17. Hopefully the sun will come out and help melt all the snow. Then it will be spring. :)

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  18. NICE to see the sun and blue sky!! Love walking in the snow when the sun is shining.

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  19. Interesting area! Your street shots look like mine as we had a big snowfall over the weekend

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  20. Yeah, what a great pile of snow!

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  21. That looks like a cold walk! But beautiful. I’m a terrible wimp about cold weather, but I’m glad you are not. Your city is beautiful.

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  22. @RedPat: we could still get some.

    @Carol: thank you.

    @Red: snow rules.

    @Sharon: indeed.

    @Barbara: it'll be awhile yet.

    @Bill: in a few weeks.

    @Happyone: I do too.

    @Pat: here it is cold today.

    @Revrunner: a whole lot.

    @Sallie: I love it.

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  23. That is a heck of a lot of snow! It really makes everything look so lovely.

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  24. You certainly did get a lot of snow William, looks marvelous under that beautiful blue sky 💙

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  25. What a fabulous view of the city! And that's a boatload of snow! I hope some of it is gone by now.

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  26. That's a lot of snow to live with every day. I'm glad I don't have to.

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  27. @Gemel: it does indeed.

    @Grace: I think so.

    @Jennifer: thanks!

    @Jeanie: some of it, yes.

    @Joanne: I love having it around.

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  28. Beautiful snowy street photos. So much snow.

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  29. Great statuary and buckets of snow.
    MB

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  30. Thanks for this enjoyable post, I'm a fan of statues, and especially spotting those for firefighters, which seem to be around more than one would think!

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  31. wow you guys get loads of snow, do you have to put chains on the car wheels there or is it ok to drive?

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  32. I also like the blue skies in your photographs.

    All the best Jan

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