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Tag Archives: Dow’s Lake
Canadian Tulip Festival – 60th Anniversary – May 4-21, 2012
Canadian Tulip Festival – 60th Anniversary – May 4-21, 2012 When I first looked at the headline in the Monday edition of the Ottawa Citizen (March 5th, 2012), my first reaction was one of dismay as I read “Tulip Festival … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa
Tagged 60th anniversary, canadian tulip festival, daffodils, Dow's Lake, experimental farm, forecast temperature, forsythias, full bloom, magnolias, Major's Hill Park, mid march, ottawa citizen, ottawa ontario, spring this year, tulip beds, tulip festival, tulips, weather conditions
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Protest on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario
After having breakfast with a retiring colleague this morning, I headed over to Parliament Hill to photograph a few tulips. When I arrived, another protest group was preparing for yet another demonstration and parade. I say “Yet Another” because I … Continue reading
Canadian Tulip Festival, Ottawa Ontario – Day 5, May 10th, 2011
I bit of heat and sunshine can do wonders for a tulip bed and that is certainly what is happening for the tulips that have been planted around the flower beds of Dow’s Lake. Still plenty left that haven’t started … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa
Tagged Bee's-eye view, canadian tulip festival, Commissioner’s Park, Dow's Lake, Dow's Lake Pavilion, Festival canadien des tulipes, flower beds, Henck Visch, les tulipes, Ontario, Ottawa, ottawa ontario, ottawa tulips, sculpture, sunshine, The Man WIth Two Hats, tulip bed, tulip festival ottawa, tulips, Tulips in Ottawa
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Canadian Tulip Festival – Day 2
The sun was shining today . At least, for awhile it was. That was all that was needed for some of the tulip beds to start showing their colours. Being Saturday, it meant that there were quite a few people … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Home and About, Ontario, Ottawa
Tagged boardwalk, Canada, canadian soldiers, canadian tulip festival, colours, Commissioner’s Park, Dow's Lake, Dow's Lake Pavilion, food stalls, full bloom, government of the netherlands, magnolias, Ontario, ottawa tulip festival, ottawa tulips, question mark, red tulips, second world war, shapes, tulip beds, yellow tulips
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Magnolias and more.
Today was the official first day of the Canadian Tulip Festival. Someone forgot to tell the tulips:-). Those tulips that might have been opened in the morning when the sun was shining, were closed in the afternoon as the clouds … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa
Tagged Agricultural Exxperimental Farm, agriculture, arboretum, blossom, blossoms, bud stage, Canada, canadian tulip festival, Commissioner’s Park, Dow's Lake, Dow's Lake Pavilion, experimental farm, flowers, followers, forsythia, magnolia, magnolias, Ontario, Ottawa, ottawa tulip festival, ottawa tulips, parking lot, Primrose, Primula, Rock Garden, scilla, Spring, spring flowering bulbs, sunlight, tulip beds, tulips, yellow flowering bush, yellow flowers
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Tulip Festival, Dow’s Lake, Ottawa
After photographing the Trilliums along the Jock River, I headed over to the Experimental Farm and to Dow’s Lake to photograph the remaining flowers of the Magnolia trees at the Experimental Farm and a few of the tulips at Dow’s … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa
Tagged Dow's Lake, experimental farm, flowers, full bloom, gardens, image, Iris, magnolia, magnolia trees, magnolias, Ontario, Ottawa, ottawa experimental farm, photo, photography, purple iris, Rideau RIver, salmon tulips, springtiem, trilliums, tulip festival, tulip. yellow tulip, tulips, two-toned iris, yellow iris
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Skating on the Rideau Canal – 2006
Skating on the Rideau Canal – 2006 Although ice skates are the most common form of transportation on the frozen stretches of the Rideau Canal and Dow’s Lake, they are certainly not the only method. All of that exercise might … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Home and About, Ontario, Ottawa
Tagged Beavertails, children, cutter, Dow's Lake, Guiness Record, horse, ice skate, mascot, Moon, Ontario, Ottawa, Rideau Canal, skate, sled, sleigh, snow, snow sculpture, Taffy on snow, twilight, World's Largest Skating Rink
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