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.

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Arch

February 25, 2010

Two years ago:
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Through the looking glass

February 25, 2009

Three years:
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Boardwalk

Feb 25, 2008