Changing Seasons Along The Ottawa River

It has been my tradition once a month to come out to a viewing platform where the Alexandra Bridge starts to cross the Ottawa River over to Gatineau, and document the view over time. That view includes the Chateau Laurier, Rideau Canal, and Parliament Hill to the south of this location.

I start with a view from early in April of last year, when the ice below the river was just starting to break up. When it goes, it goes quickly.

This shot was taken in mid-May in what started as a rainy day but was clearing up when I was here. Most of the trees had leafed out.

This was taken one day in the second half of June.

I came back on a breezy Canada Day.

Here it was in early August.

And here was how things were in early September.

On a fall day in the first half of October, during an extended walk, I stopped by again.

In the latter half of November, I was back here, after some snow.

I took this a couple of days before Christmas Eve, en route to the Canadian Museum of History.

Late in January, I came here on a sunny day.

And concluding this post, taken a few days ago on a cold snowy day. Looking down at the slope, I saw some fallen trees, a nod that the treeline had changed from my first shot to my last in more than one way.