City Daily Photo Theme Day: Medicine

 The first day of each month is a theme day for members of City Daily Photo. This month, the theme is Medicine. See how others are interpreting the theme right here.

Saint-Vincent Hospital is a place of medicine, a chronic care hospital founded a hundred years ago. It is close to home for me, but I hadn't been inside since before Covid. It seemed ideal for the theme. I came by on Saturday.

Saint-Vincent is one of two Catholic hospitals in the city jointly administered through the Bruyere organization, which has its roots in Elisabeth Bruyere, a nun who led a mission of sisters to Ottawa in the 19th century and established hospitals, education, and social services and left a huge legacy for the city that endures today. Since 1932, the hospital's location has been here, while its counterpart, the Bruyere, has been in Lowertown.

Within is a large courtyard, once exposed to the elements, but now with a glass roof. The modern touches are fascinating.

An adjoining terrace beckoned me out. Below the heights that the hospital is on- part of the same larger ridgeline that Parliament Hill is on- is Lebreton Flats. The Ottawa River can be seen, with Gatineau on the far shore.

I zoomed in. The back side of the Canadian War Museum is seen here. Off in the distance is the great rise of the Gatineau Hills.

A look westward. The low structure at centre is an LRT station.

I wanted to frame a similar view with the girders of the building.

The pillars are colourful.

Back out the main entrance I went.

Lastly, my medicine cabinet at home seemed fitting for the theme as well. Oral care and a razor blade at bottom, a couple of Tylenol bottles, soap, deodorant, and shaving gel on the middle, and some first aid and additional items on the top. The bag of cotton nose plugs is a reminder of that night in 2021 when I fell and broke my nose.

Tulip Blooms In A Variety Of Locales

 After leaving the Rideau Centre in yesterday's post, I passed by Confederation Park, where tulips, many of them of the Canada 150 variety, grow among other plants in the flowerbeds.

On another day I was passing by the Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital, and these caught my eye.

When I was finished taking the formal shots for my theme day post, I took more shots along the south side of Wellington Street, focusing on the planters with their colourful tulips, and featuring Parliament in the background.

The roadway led me to take a right, and framed this shot looking back at Parliament Hill.

Across the street is the National War Memorial. I leave off with this shot, with more from here tomorrow.

Green Tulips

 A good number of you have been awaiting the tulips, and so today we begin another extended series. The Canadian Tulip Festival is underway here in Ottawa and Gatineau, looking more like itself after the last two years in which the tulips were on display as you'd expect, but no associated programming,

I was in Major's Hill Park one day in the first days of May and took this photograph of Colonel John By, the British military engineer who oversaw the building of the Rideau Canal and is considered the founder of the city. Around the statue and beyond it, tulips were popping up out of the soil, but not yet showing their colours.

This view from the end of the row behind the Colonel shows Parliament Hill out beyond.

Some smaller beds in large planters in the park also had tulips poking up and growing.

There are some larger beds at the north end of the park, where workers were busy clearing out the beds of any stray leaves from over the winter. Notre Dame lurks in the background beyond some of the beds.

While the National Gallery stands beyond another. Some tulips were just starting to show some colour. I headed that way.

Then I headed over to the other beds.

Departing the park, I passed by the Elisabeth Bruyere Hospital, where tulips were showing themselves.

Spring Colours

One day around the middle of April I was approaching the grounds of the Peacekeeping Monument and noticed small flowers popping up on the lawn. I took time to photograph them. 

This view from the other side of the lawn looks under a portion of the monument and includes Parliament Hill and Major's Hill Park in the background.

A short walk away was the Elisabeth Bruyere Hospital, and in the gardens outside, new shoots were coming up.

A little while later that day, passing by Confederation Park, this caught my eye.

Late in the month, I passed by Central Park in the Glebe and photographed the scilla among the rocks on a slope. These tiny flowers can always be found here in abundance in the second half of April.

This last one was taken a couple of days later in the same location.