A special day deserves special photographic treatment. Herewith, a montage of provincial flowers represents the places in Canada where I’ve lived.
Provincial Flowers: ON, SK, AB
A bouquet of tulips from Ottawa represents Canada’s role as sanctuary to the Dutch royal family during WWII and Canada’s liberation of Holland, still remembered and celebrated by Dutch schoolchildren.
Ottawa Tulip Festival:
Home, Dow’s Lake, Home
Ottawa Tulip Festival:
Purple Tulip
Ottawa Tulip Festival:
Red/Orange Striped Tulip
Finally, two kinds of maple leaves represent the whole country: Japanese maples, glowing in the spring sunshine; and sugar maples, warming the fall.
Japanese Maple
Sugar Maple Leaf
Happy Canada Day!
Nice selection pics, Isabel.
You had a nice crop of flags in your garden this morning. Thank you !!!
Jim R – Many thanks! Now if only I could get them to grow . . .
I still get a thrill when I see a big red maple leaf in Ottawa. As you know, as an Alberta kid, red maple leaves were a myth, not a reality. My first trip to Ottawa in the fall (when Mark first moved there) I was picking up leaves off the ground all the time – I had QUITE a pile of them, and still find them now and then, as bookmarks in books I’ve read. (a wonderful use!)
Alison – Yes, my office-mates here used to laugh at me for picking up leaves when I worked on a project in Ottawa but was still living in Edmonton. I couldn’t understand how they could be so cavalier – not taking them for granted is a gift.