Tip Toe through the Tulips

Just a couple of days before the tulip festival, before the sea of tourist will descend on the capital city of Ottawa, I walked on this cool spring day with just a few people about. Oh, words cannot describe the beauty that enfolded me as I walked by the Rideau Canal and Dow's Lake.

The myriad of colors, yellow, white, red, fuscia, purple, orange, pink, bi-colored and there were two beds of peonies, I thought. Closer inspection revealed, the Monte Carlo which was yellow, multi-petaled  and the red Miranda. I have never seen tulips that were like rosettes, before. Many of the varieties were scented, too. This year, Holland's queen will be the guest of honor at the festival. It was her mother who has sent millions of tulips bulbs every year in thanksgiving to the Canadian people who sheltered her and her little daughters during World War II.

O what a feast for the senses! Ottawa has definitely been transformed to a huge beautiful flower garden.

Still in a State of Flux

It has been 2 months since I last posted. It seems like a vacation from a state of flux is what I need now. It is definitely what I want. So I am planning to go on a educational vacation this September. Does that make sense after I just told you I want a vacation now?  Perhaps it will, if I tell you what's happening.

I've moved to a temporary lodging while I'm in the process of finding a more permanent one. So going away for a vacation is out of the question. However, I don't have to go away...
The location of my present housing is where tourists flock in the next few weeks for the Tulip Festival. This area becomes a beautiful,  huge, spring garden with varieties of tulips, daffodils and other spring flowers in landscaped beds. Then, there are decorated boats floating on the canal just a couple of minutes' walk from where I live.

As I took a walk by the canal, the yellow buds on the trees is already making the landscape surreal. and the canada geese were gliding gracefully along the shallow waters.The purple martins were scouting their territories in the different trees by the canal. Some people were even sun-bathing on the slopes near-by. Oh Yes, my vacation has already begun!

In my next post, I will write about the reviews, I've received from my second novel Lucia M of Singapore.
PC Nicholas