It looked like clouds fell from the sky into the Ottawa River last Thursday afternoon, enveloping cities on both sides, plus the Alexandra Bridge. I’ve never seen anything like it.

No Tyrants march at the US Embassy in Ottawa. 🇨🇦 28 March 2026.

No Tyrants march at the US Embassy in Ottawa. 🇨🇦 28 March 2026.

No Tyrants march at the US Embassy in Ottawa. 🇨🇦 28 March 2026. #Indivisible

I’m obsessed with my back fence in Autumn.

October afternoon along the Rideau River Eastern Pathway. Ottawa.

Portraits of resistance #4: Canadian activists at the #NoKings solidarity protest in Ottawa, Canada at the US Embassy on Saturday. @indivisible.org

Portraits of resistance #3: Canadian activists at the #NoKings solidarity protest in Ottawa, Canada at the US Embassy on Saturday. @indivisible.org

Portraits of resistance #2: Canadian activists at the #NoKings solidarity protest in Ottawa, Canada at the US Embassy on Saturday. @indivisible.org

Portraits of resistance #1: Canadian activists at the #NoKings solidarity protest in Ottawa, Canada at the US Embassy on Saturday. @indivisible.org

Incredible turnout, creativity and energy from Canadian activists at the #NoKings solidarity protest in Ottawa at the US Embassy on Saturday. If there’s no joy in your struggle, you’re not ready for the revolution. @indivisible.org

Roadside Sumac. Autumn. Ottawa.

Nature, the artist, is in fine form in October. Beechwood Cemetery. Ottawa.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Sunday afternoon in autumn. Beechwood Cenertery. Ottawa .

Autumn announces itself.

Captured this 6 years ago at the human rights monument in Ottawa at a Lights for Liberty protest. A child protesting the incarceration of immigrant children in cages. How stoney does your heart have to be? How calcified your soul. Sadly, inexplicably, things are even worse.

Exactly.

Rose Garden. Sunday morning.. Central Experimental Farm. Ottawa

#NoKings protest today in Ottawa, Canada.

#NoKings protest today in Ottawa, Canada.

#NoKings protest today in Ottawa, Canada.

Spotted at the Montreal Climate March in September 2019: Greta Thunberg depicted as Joan of Arc. Better than anyone she knows we have to keep the doors of human rights, democracy, science and peace open to get to the raging fire that is climate change. #FreedomFlotilla

The King and Queen escorted by RCMP Honour Guard on Wellington St. in Ottawa, May 27th on his way to deliver the Throne Speech.

Odawa PowWow. 50th anniversary. Ottawa. 24 May 2025

Men’s Traditional Dancers. Odawa PowWow. 50th anniversary. Ottawa. 24 May 2025

Young dancers. Odawa PowWow. 50th anniversary. Ottawa. 24 May 2025

Jingle dancers. Odawa PowWow. 50th anniversary. Ottawa. 24 May 2025

Canadian Tulip Festival 2025. Final bow.

Spring in Beechwood Cemetery Gardens: Crabapple trees. Ottawa

Thirty hours of my life I’ll never want back. Officially the best fictional journey I’ve ever been on, with characters I will savour in my memory, as if they were my own family.

The final day of the Canada Tulip Festival is my favourite. Over two weeks the flowers go from abundant in their uniformity to singularly eccentric, intricate, splendid in colour and fascinating to behold. Ottawa. #CdnTulipFest

Today in Tulips. Commissioners Park. Ottawa. #CanadianTulipFestival2025

Tulips of May. Commissioners Park. Ottawa #CanadianTulipFestival

Tulips of May. Commissioners Park. Ottawa. #CdnTulipFest

The Canadian Tulip Festival 2025 goes all out for Mother’s Day. Commissioners Park. Ottawa.

Commissioners Park. Ottawa. Canadian Tulip Festival. Day Two.

Ottawa Tulip Festival 2025. Day one.

Commissioners Park in Ottawa on the eve of the 2025 Tulip Festival.

Harbinger of spring. Ornamental Gardens. Central Experimental Farm. Ottawa. 7 May 2025

A few more snaps from PM Mark Carney’s Easter Sunday rally in Nepean this afternoon, feat. Diana Fox Carney. #CarneyForCanada

A few snaps from PM Mark Carney’s Easter Sunday rally in Nepean this afternoon, feat. Diana Fox Carney. #CarneyForCanada

Apparently Canadians are living in terror in their communities because the Liberals are soft on crime - says the man who handed out coffee and donuts to the truckers who took over Ottawa for weeks and truly did terrorize people. #NeverPoilèvre #Debate2025

“Everywhere, and always, go after that which is lost.”

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa has passed away. I never got to thank him for the wonderful novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, which is on my beloved books list. Time to read it again, in memoriam. #Booksky

National March for Palestine. 30,000 strong. Saturday April 12th. Ottawa 🇨🇦 #stopthegenocide and demand a #ceasefire.

National March for Palestine. 30,000 strong. Saturday April 12th. Ottawa 🇨🇦 #stopthegenocide and demand a #ceasefire.

National March for Palestine. 30,000 strong. Saturday April 12th. Ottawa 🇨🇦 #stopthegenocide and demand a #ceasefire.

National March for Palestine. 30,000 strong. Saturday April 12th. Ottawa 🇨🇦 #stopthegenocide and demand a #ceasefire.

30,000 showed up on Parliament Hill in Ottawa yesterday (April 12th) to join the National March for Palestine to #stopthegenocide and demand a #ceasefire.