Is this the entrance to a Hobbit house? If so, there was no one home when I knocked politely.

Sticking close to the ground I spied this beauty. This stretches the limit of the macro capability of my now obsolete camera. Good camera, nice camera (...)

I'm sure these colourful spikes where pushing up through the soil while I was taking the last image. They weren't there a minute ago!

Warning: obligatory tourist shot to situate the locale. Offical Tulip Festival photography follows.

I won't bore you with classic shots of endless tulip beds. I did that last year. Here, the wind has performed open heart surgery on this tulip.

This particular tulip has a frilly edge and I was able to get this intriguing composition.

Like the stone giants of Easter Island the Festival tulips stand row upon row.

I was surprised to find this montage on top of one of the painted tulips. What does it mean? There were no other visual clues. Is this Peace being str (...)

The festival area on Major Hills Park is beginning to resemble a carnival. Still, this carousel shadow seemed to be gliding by waiting for the carouse (...)

There are many sculptures scattered across the Ottaw region. Most suck, being chunks of iron or lumps of rock deposited randomly. I liked the spiralin (...)

This detail attracted me by its colour and chaotic structure glittering in the sunlight.

OK, this one is for Malak Karsh who made the Ottawa Tulip Festival world famous with his ground-breaking photography. I had to kick a half dozen other (...)

There are so many tulips that the eye sometimes gets tired of all the colour. Rest your eyes on this image and imagine the beauty there.

While the formal tulip beds are spectacular I prefer the random beauty that Nature provides if one knows where to look. I took these Dandy Lions not f (...)

This is my tribute to Malak Karsh this year. It was taken at the bed on the Hull side where a plaque has been placed to commemorate his life and caree (...)

Well, that's it. I'll leave you with these Marsh mallow quintuplets. The Equinox is almost over and Summer beckons on the horizon. May beauty continue (...)