Tag Archives: Tulip Festival
Flashback Flowers
On Friday’s this year we are revisiting the past, with today’s offering coming from May 31, 2017. I have spent most of May overseas, and am glad to be home at last. Traveling meant that I missed the annual Tulip Festival in Ottawa, which is one of the highlights of the year. It has been […]
Tulip Memories
I’m on the road and missing the Tulip Festival. Again. So I’m flashing back today to the last time I was at the festival in 2017. A photo essay today, just to give you a sampling of what you missed at the 2017 Canadian Tulip Festival. Even though essentially I see the same thing every […]
Tulip Time
Ottawa’s annual Tulip festival is in full swing with swathes of color everywhere. I’m eager to see the flowers – but I know that isn’t going to happen. It isn’t just hat I am out of the city for much of the festival. It is that all the things that needed to get done before […]
A Sea of Tulips
I just realized the Tulip Festuival is happening in Ottawa and I’m missing it. That’s one of the drawbacks of traveling – you miss some things back home. Here are some photos from the last time I was in town for the Tulip Festival, 2017. A photo essay today, just to give you a sampling […]
Silly Season
The tulips are in bloom in Ottawa – and the government wants people to view them online, not in person. Understandable I guess. Everyone knows you can catch COVID-19 from flowers. You can’t of course, at least as far as anyone knows. Officials with the National Capital Commission (NCC) are more concerned with large crowds […]
Tulip Time
My mother reminded me that the national Tulip Festival is on in Ottawa. If the schedule is like past years, it should be ending this weekend. Since I can’t be there, I thought I’d share a few photos from 2017. There was something different about the light the day I took these pictures. To me […]
Canadian Tulip Festival 2017 – VI
One last look at this year’s Tulipfest with a photo essay. I have at least a hundred photos that aren’t going to get used, but I guess that is the way these things go.
Canadian Tulip Festival 2017 – V
When I go to a tulip festival I expect to see tulips. After all, there are literally millions of bulbs planted in Ottawa as the basis for the Canadian Tulip Festival, here as a reminder of the enduring friendship between Canada and The Netherlands. So I’m not sure how or why one flowerbed this year […]
Canadian Tulip Festival 2017 – IV
A TALE OF TWO CITIES There is a rivalry between Ottawa and Toronto that doesn’t make much sense to outsiders. I hadn’t expected to see it played out though as part of the Canadian Tulip Festival. Ottawa is the national capital. Toronto, five times as large is the provincial capital. Toronto thinks it is the […]
Canadian Tulip Festival 2017 – III
A photo essay today, just to give you a sampling of what you missed at the 2017 Canadian Tulip Festival. Even though essentially I see the same thing every year (I mean, a tulip is a tulip after all), somehow it does seem fresh and new each time. I think that may have something to […]
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