Odds And Ends In The City

A reminder to those in the area that the Tulip Festival is getting underway this weekend. Photos are coming. 

I have some odds and ends today. I mentioned yesterday that I'd had a conversation with a man in Central Park in the Glebe. He had noticed me taking pictures of the scilla on the slope, and had called me up to the top of the slope, where there's an area with a small garden and a children's area that has always seemed geared towards inspiring their minds. There was something up here that he thought I should see.

I've passed by this spot countless times, and while I've occasionally taken the stone stairs down into the park, I have never seen this. It is a cast of what appears to be Coelophysis, a small carnivorous dinosaur. 

I reached out to a paleobiologist with the Museum of Nature to identify it. He said it was the first time he was made aware of the cast, but said a technician mark on it was a giveaway that it was a cast.

A different way of looking at things. This bamboo pole lines this area of the park, and I looked at it from the top.

A channel of the Ottawa River runs through this area, with the future main branch of the Ottawa Library in the distance. When the trees start to leaf out, the channel is not visible.

On Victoria Island, coming back from taking a couple of shots of the Ottawa River, I used my zoom lens to photograph this Canada goose, whose mate was close by.

One evening heading home, this statue of Mary on the grounds at St. Patrick Basilica caught my eye.

This is the main entrance of the church, looking particularly dramatic at night.

Early tree blossoms round out things for today, taken around the Glebe neighbourhood one morning.