Skaters

 The Corktown Bridge is graceful in its design.

There's a bad habit we see in other parts of the world. Love locks, which get attached to the railings. I know in the past they've been removed. Time to do it again.

I proceeded on, looking back at the bridge.

The last stretch, and three more bridges to go.

The Laurier Avenue Bridge lies ahead, with buildings at right that are used by National Defense.

Skating

 As I mentioned yesterday, I am closing down the series on Winterlude with three posts from one last trip on the Rideau Canal for this year. Appropriately, my visits when taking pictures were at night, which tends to be quieter. The Canal can be very busy during the day. For this occasion, I met the Canal a short distance beyond the Pretoria and 417 bridges, which are in the distance in this shot, and where I'd left off during my last trip.

I was heading downtown, taking pictures both forward and back.

The University of Ottawa has its campus here along one shore.

Around the last bend, with Centretown on the left and the university on the other.

We'll leave off here today. The Corktown Bridge is a pedestrian bridge that links Centretown with Sandy Hill, the neighbourhood that is home to the university.

City Daily Photo Theme Day: Cooking

 The first day of each month is a theme day for members of City Daily Photo. For November, that theme is Cooking. Take a look at how others are interpreting this theme right here.

I am starting today with a shot from the archives, taken in 2017. This is Munross House in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood, taken during Doors Open. The house dates to 1874. Today it houses Signatures, a restaurant, and Le Cordon Bleu, a culinary school.

I should probably admit straight out that I don't cook. So this one I was finding a challenge. Until I thought of the main farmers' market, held at Lansdowne Park. Plenty of things to be found here for cooking.

If one comes to the market, one can expect to see dogs.

One of the vendors makes something called an arepa, first made among South American indigenous peoples. It's a cornmeal dough, fried into a patty, and filled with a variety of ingredients. I've had it before and like it.

My selection- ham and feta cheese, with some garlic sauce. It is quite filling.

Another treat. Centretown Halifax Donair and Pizza is a shop near my place, my go to for pizza. It is very much East Coast in design and hospitality, and this is a donair, a classic from the Atlantic provinces, particularly in Nova Scotia. The roots of the donair are in the doner, which has Greek and Turk origins. A Greek immigrant in Nova Scotia made the donair a distinctly Canadian institution- seasoned strips of grilled beef, onion, and tomato in a sweet sauce and wrapped in pita bread. It looks a mess, but my, is it delicious.

And another Canadian institution. I had dinner in the second half of October with a couple of friends at Great Canadian Poutinerie. The classic poutine- fries topped with gravy and cheese curds- also has a variety of different choices at this restaurant for additional toppings. On this occasion, I had one with ground beef, onion, pickles, barbecue sauce, and melted cheese.

One of the other guys had Buffalo chicken on top of his. I took a shot of the third choice- topped with bacon and grilled cheese bites. Good eating.

Freedom Of Expression

 Untitled is this abstract painting by Leon Bellefleur.

Incandescence is the title of this 1968 abstract by Rita Letendre.

More abstracts can be seen here.

Red Pair is by Don Jarvis.

Paraskeva Clark, a Russian immigre to Canada, painted Homage To A Soviet Film, Baltic Deputy in 1968.

Out I went, taking a shot of the Firestone staircase from this floor.

I took a photograph of where I had come in- with a cafe down below as well.

The OAG has art for sale. These two paintings caught my attention.

One last shot, with the OAG in the background from this side, one big white cube. In the foreground, the old Carleton County Gaol, now a youth hostel. And the former courthouse that is now home to Arts Court is at left.