There's an odd bit of my walk by the river where I have go go under the Hurdman transitway bridge, then up stairs to get to the path beside the Ottawa U football field that leads to the Hurdman foot bridge ( Read more... )

Every day when I walk to (or from) work, I see someone remarkable... I think I will designate a 'person of the day ( Read more... )

What with one thing and another, I got very little exercise in August and September, leaving me feeling unfit and flabby ( Read more... )

I decided to walk to work this morning. A beautiful sunny day, not too hot, just about perfect. According to Google Maps, I could do it in 67 minutes. I gave myself 80 minutes: I think those Google routes are all timed by men with legs longer than mine. Or just by people who are younger and more fit than I am. (Could that be ( Read more... )

I love this time of year.


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I was excited to have seen daffodils. dewline told me there were tulips in bloom in Orleans - Ottawa's eastern suburb - and I was envious.

Then today, passing the Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library, I saw this:


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Sunrise was listed at 5:57 this morning, so I got up at 5:45 and rushed outside. I was a little too late: the sun wasn't up yet when I went out, but close to, and the sky was light. I'll make it earlier tomorrow.

I went for a walk, and took pictures.

My pictures from today:


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I should have got up an hour earlier.

When I looked out the window, the snow was falling heavily, and had obviously been doing so for some time. And still is. So I set out for the gym, but there were no buses and the snow made the walking difficult, and three times as slow as usual.

But it is beautiful.


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Before my Stephen Fry alarm clock went off this morning I woke up to the sound of a snow shovel outside my window. Which hasn't happened since last winter... Uh-oh, thought I.

And so it is. There were a few snow squalls yesterday, but nothing that stayed. Today... different story.


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The Rideau Canal at the end of October is a dreary sight. Last week, my cousin Barbara and I had supper at the Canal Ritz, a restaurant right on the Canal: it was beautiful ( Read more... )