Here are a few of the things we saw on Sunday while wandering the streets of Ottawa.
Snow at the Clocktower Pub but nowhere else. Of course this would have been a much more dramatic picture if I’d posted it in a more timely fashion, like before we got the first snowfall of the season. (In case you’re wondering why it snowed at the Clocktower but nowhere else: they imported the snow for a snowboarding competition the night before.)
Fresh from the Ontario Conference of Folk Festivals (okay maybe that’s a bit of an oxymoron, given what Hella Stella says about OCFF), for a jam at the Elmdale Tavern, from left to right: Jay Linden, Sean Peever, Eve Goldberg (my Haliburton guitar teacher, who is searching for a nickname), and Sam Turton (who encourages the audience to sing, so we did). We forgot to bring our knitting to the Elmdale which was a little disappointing because, as you know, tavern knitting is hot. But we managed to have fun even without the knitting.
Other sightings included:
A Pumpkin Esthetician – you don’t see one of these every day.
Pumpkin Cannibals might be a little more common:
And last but not least, we saw a favourite famous Ottawa blogger peddling south on Bank Street, but he was faster than the speed of light, so we couldn’t get a picture.
I’ve seen that same famous Ottawa blogger whizz by on Old Yella a few times myself. He sure is fast.
Ah, the snowboarding competition was probably in partnership with Joe Mamma Urban Cycles, just across the street from the Clocktower on Pretoria. They specialize in neat bikes and do lots of BMX/Snowboarding competitions.