A Winter Stroll At The Gardens

This past Sunday I paid a visit to the Canadian Museum of Nature, what with a pressing need for photographs and the museums in the city doing their customary early January closures for a few days. My sore leg made me pay for it afterwards, but such is life. Each season, I come by to capture the Landscapes of Canada Gardens as they are, and since I was here anyway, it made sense to do so as a winter version. This approach to the Museum starts things off.

Four ecosystems from the country are represented in the form of trees, bushes, shrubs, plants, grasses, and flowers. The first is Boreal Forest.

Prairie Grasslands is next. Transplanted plants of the prairies lie dormant under the snow this time of year, and the grasses cropped, waiting on spring.

Arctic Tundra vegetation lies mostly to the left side of the path, among rocks, and during the warm weather they grow well here.

This large sculpture of an iceberg has the path pass beneath it.

Over on the west side of the property, on the far side of Arctic Tundra, I took this shot.

Mammoth Steppe is the last of the ecosystems in the garden. Plants that grew in the time of those animals and still thrive today have been planted here.

A family of mammoths, life sized in statue form, stand along the path. Beyond, the Museum beckons, with the Moon inside the Queens Lantern. We begin our tour inside tomorrow.