I went over to the other side of the canal today. The Sandy Hill side.
These are the two big heads they have at the play structure at Strathcona Park, on the Rideau river.
According to Wikipedia, “The structure was assembled by artist Stephen Brathwaite to look like ruins. It was assembled out of blocks of stone that had been part of the parliament buildings, the Chateau Laurier, and other prominent Ottawa structures.” I think it’s very cool.
The park. You’d think they might pay some guy to run a sidewalk plow down the paths now and then, but they don’t. Not here in cheapskate city.
Ducks are back.
Coming home on Rideau street I saw this derelict Cajun restaurant…
And this terrific wall painting. This isn’t all of it.
I googled it and learned that the subject is Aids and its victims, which I would not have figured out on my own.
A year ago today:
Pic 726
Arch
February 25, 2010
Two years ago:
Pic 374
Through the looking glass
February 25, 2009
Three years:
Pic 62
Boardwalk
Feb 25, 2008
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I adore Stephen’s work. He was commissioned by the Ontario Crafts Council to make the board room doors. They were double panelled doors full of panels that opened or were shadow boxes. There we wind up music boxes to play, and paintings his father did and toysand all sorts of ephemera inside. You could spend an hour with it!
His play structure was my kids favorite place to play. Then they took down the awesome slide and older kids kind of drifted away from it.
Wow, you really made that tunnel look LONG! Very nice! Except you cropped out the best part of that underpass (if it’s still there).
- RG>
What was that Grouchy? I can still uncrop it and see.